Why grid investment planning is under pressure:
- Capital plans built on outdated, reactive processes
- Inability to weigh cost, risk, and sustainability side by side
- Siloed decisions across asset, finance, engineering, and operations teams
- Difficulty demonstrating impact and defending plans to regulators and stakeholders
Grid Transformation Demands Smarter Asset Investment Planning (AIP)
As utilities face increasing pressure to modernize the grid, traditional planning methods are breaking down.
Asset investment decisions can no longer rely on historical precedent, spreadsheets, or siloed reasoning.
What’s needed is a unified, data-driven approach that connects investments to long-term grid objectives, from decarbonization and reliability to affordability and resilience.
Best-in-Class AI-Powered Solutions
IFS Copperleaf is at the forefront of investment planning and decision making. We help electric utilities get the highest possible return for every investment they make in their businesses. Our solutions are used to manage infrastructure across multiple industries in more than 25 countries.
increase in portfolio value
reduction in risk exposure
increase in capital efficiency
A modern AIP approach enables strategic capital planning, which unlocks:
Integrated Planning
Grid modernization isn’t just about new technologies, it’s about making the right investments at the right time, across a rapidly evolving system.
Integrated Planning for electric utilities brings together engineering, finance, operational, and sustainability priorities into one cohesive, executable plan.
It enables utilities to:
- Consolidate DER, storage, and resilience projects
- Optimize across CAPEX and OPEX constraints
- Visualize long-term needs across assets and geographies
- Communicate value clearly to stakeholders and regulators
Learn more about Integrated Planning
Real Utilities. Real Results.
See how leading utilities optimize their investments with IFS Copperleaf.
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Webinar Recap: How PG&E is Transforming Grid Planning with Integrated Risk-Based Investment Strategies
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Case Study: Sustainable Asset Investment Planning at Endeavour Energy
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Webinar
Webinar – Case Study: How National Grid Transformed Capital Work Planning
Hydro One Case Study: Creating Investment Plans that Build Stakeholder Trust
Emergent events lead to uncertainty, which lead to people seeking to understand the impact on the networks, customers, and business. With IFS Copperleaf, we have been able to look at those financial strategies—something we wouldn’t have been able to dream of doing in the past. We’ve been able to quickly answer these questions and make decisions to move our business forward.
IFS Copperleaf is a lovely, clean way to illustrate how our organizational strategies and organizational values are used in everyday decision making. Undoubtedly, IFS Copperleaf will feature in our way of demonstrating our compliance in upcoming regulatory audits and certifications.
We started to see with IFS Copperleaf that value is much more than just dollars. We started to look at all the different dimensions of what value comes from an investment. And with IFS Copperleaf’s help, we figured out ways to effectively measure those and balance them against traditional cost and reliability metrics. So we end up with an evaluation platform that anybody can use for any investment.
Ready to lead grid modernization with confidence?
With IFS Copperleaf, a future-ready capital plan isn’t just optimized—it’s executable, explainable, and aligned to strategy.