Solve today’s grid challenges. Strategically plan for tomorrow.
The electrical grid is evolving—fast. As utilities face rising electrification demands, extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and a surge of distributed energy resources (DERs), traditional planning methods fall short. IFS Copperleaf® Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) enables utilities to meet these challenges head-on with a modern, data-driven approach that connects strategy, operations, and investment decisions across the entire grid.
Today’s utilities face a perfect storm of complexity. Demand is surging, energy sources are more diversified than ever, and climate change change creates unprecedented volatility in the grid. Compounding these challenges are aging infrastructure, growing reliability risks, and intensifying regulatory and ESG mandates to decarbonize and modernize. Many utilities still rely on disconnected planning processes, leading to duplicated work, inefficient spending, and misaligned strategies. Without a cohesive planning framework, organizations are forced to make trade-offs between operational realities and long-term strategic goals.
IFS Copperleaf Integrated Grid Planning changes that. This comprehensive solution enables utilities to align generation, transmission, and distribution planning on a unified platform. It supports smarter capital allocation across competing priorities like grid modernization, asset sustainment, and resiliency. Copperleaf IGP helps utilities optimize work bundling and network investments to deliver maximum value, while responding in real time to evolving regulatory, environmental, and budgetary conditions. The result is a grid that’s not only resilient and reliable, but also strategically aligned with your long-term vision.
Plan across all time horizons
Integrate your grid planning from short-term operational needs to long-term strategic goals. By connecting annual work plans with 5-, 10-, or 20-year investment strategies, utilities can ensure every decision made today supports the future grid. Real-time scenario analysis and reforecasting allow you to adapt quickly while staying on track, turning long-term vision into actionable planning at every level.
See the link between strategy and execution
With Copperleaf IGP, every plan is built on a direct line of sight from corporate strategy to frontline action. The Copperleaf Value Framework quantifies how individual projects contribute to strategic objectives—whether reliability, sustainability, or financial performance—so execution teams know they’re delivering the most meaningful impact. The result is a portfolio that’s not just aligned, but truly strategic by design.
Scope and bundle work efficiently
Copperleaf IGP intelligently scopes and bundles work across projects and business units to reduce costs, streamline field execution, and minimize service disruptions. By planning related tasks together, whether they’re grid hardening upgrades or routine maintenance, you gain operational efficiencies and increase ROI. This smarter, integrated approach improves deliverability while reducing the total time and cost to get work done.
Make value-based grid decisions
Bring value-based decision making to the grid by evaluating every investment on a common economic scale. Using advanced analytics and the Copperleaf Value Framework, utilities can prioritize projects not just on cost or urgency, but on the overall value they deliver—across reliability, safety, ESG, and financial metrics. That means every dollar spent supports the grid’s performance today and resilience tomorrow.
Copperleaf was able to prove to a state-wide electrical utility that Copperleaf Portfolio would reduce approximately $500,000 of consulting fees each year for capital plan construction.
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