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Planning / Consulting

Leverage Trimark’s decades of industry experience to make your utility-scale renewable generation and energy storage project a success.

Talk To An Expert

Connect. Comply. Optimize.

To help you anticipate and avoid challenges, our power-sector veterans provide the advice you need to make a smart start. We guide you through planning, design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and servicing systems used to operate renewable and storage resources.

Get a Smart Start

Understand the business, operational, and technical requirements of the interconnection process to set your course for success.

  • Generation Interconnection Application: Trimark experts help you understand interconnection and new resource implementation requirements. You’ll gain expert perspectives and counsel on your options and steps involved in each major project stage.
  • ISO/Utility PPA and IA: We can review and report on contractual commitments, settlement considerations, and related obligations.
  • Consolidated Technical Requirements: Trimark will consolidate telemetry, metering and instrument requirements into an actionable report.
  • Engineering Studies and Modeling: Trimark can deliver required modeling (e.g. PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF/DYGEN) to enable detailed substation design and inform SCADA control strategies.

 

I need help with Requirements!

Make informed decisions about SCME, compliance requirements,
equitable settlements, ongoing reporting, equitable loss assignment, and integration with control.

  • Incentive/REC Feasibility: Trimark can help you assess options, plan incentive program participation, and help you register for Renewable Energy Credits.
  • SCME vs. ISO ME SUPPORT: Trimark experts help you compare benefits and obligations of Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) and CAISO ME to help you make an informed decision.
  • Meter/SCADA Feasibility Study: Meter data is critical input to accurate control. Trimark experts help you understand the possibilities, what is required, and how it integrates into a functional system.
  • Meter Mitigation Study: If something goes wrong, our experts help you assess the root cause to support effective corrective actions, accurate settlement values, and maximum revenue.
  • Complex Metering: Complex environments often require metering schemes to support equitable loss assignment. Trimark experts assess your situation and help you plan the right meter scheme for you (e.g. peer-to-peer, DLC, etc.).
  • WEIM Participation: We help you understand requirements and contractual obligations for Participating and non-Participating Resources and/or Entities in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM).
Let's make a solid plan

Optimize and Mitigate

Leverage experts in PV and BESS monitoring and control to plan a
successful deployment or overcome issues that may occur after
commissioning.

Planning

Draw insight from SCADA professionals for help with:

  • SCADA Master Planning including objectives, market participation, control concepts, and hardware/software.
  • SCADA System Transition Planning for effective system replacement or migration.
  • ROC System Planning to address challenges of fleet management and secure, remote site control.
  • Mid-term Assessment to evaluate existing system performance related to Mod 26-27 tuning, fault tolerance, regulatory non-compliance, root cause failure analysis, control concepts, response, and related diagnostics.
  • Intelligent Alarm Strategy helps you determine what is important and avoid nuisance alarms.

    Owner’s Representative

    Get an expert on your side to support planning, selection, completion, criteria and alignment with your plan.

    • System Requirements and RFP Support ensure relevant system functionality in a complete package.
    • Engineering Reviews to validate proposed system compliance with industry standards, contractual obligations, and interconnection requirements.
    • Test Witnessing under an expert’s watchful eye.
    I need help with SCADA
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      Interconnection Guidance

      Get a Smart Start

      Understand the business, operational, and technical requirements of the interconnection process to set your course for success.

      • Generation Interconnection Application: Trimark experts help you understand interconnection and new resource implementation requirements. You’ll gain expert perspectives and counsel on your options and steps involved in each major project stage.
      • ISO/Utility PPA and IA: We can review and report on contractual commitments, settlement considerations, and related obligations.
      • Consolidated Technical Requirements: Trimark will consolidate telemetry, metering and instrument requirements into an actionable report.
      • Engineering Studies and Modeling: Trimark can deliver required modeling (e.g. PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF/DYGEN) to enable detailed substation design and inform SCADA control strategies.

       

      I need help with Requirements!
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      Metering Consulting

      Make informed decisions about SCME, compliance requirements,
      equitable settlements, ongoing reporting, equitable loss assignment, and integration with control.

      • Incentive/REC Feasibility: Trimark can help you assess options, plan incentive program participation, and help you register for Renewable Energy Credits.
      • SCME vs. ISO ME SUPPORT: Trimark experts help you compare benefits and obligations of Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) and CAISO ME to help you make an informed decision.
      • Meter/SCADA Feasibility Study: Meter data is critical input to accurate control. Trimark experts help you understand the possibilities, what is required, and how it integrates into a functional system.
      • Meter Mitigation Study: If something goes wrong, our experts help you assess the root cause to support effective corrective actions, accurate settlement values, and maximum revenue.
      • Complex Metering: Complex environments often require metering schemes to support equitable loss assignment. Trimark experts assess your situation and help you plan the right meter scheme for you (e.g. peer-to-peer, DLC, etc.).
      • WEIM Participation: We help you understand requirements and contractual obligations for Participating and non-Participating Resources and/or Entities in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM).
      Let's make a solid plan
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      SCADA Services

      Optimize and Mitigate

      Leverage experts in PV and BESS monitoring and control to plan a
      successful deployment or overcome issues that may occur after
      commissioning.

      Planning

      Draw insight from SCADA professionals for help with:

      • SCADA Master Planning including objectives, market participation, control concepts, and hardware/software.
      • SCADA System Transition Planning for effective system replacement or migration.
      • ROC System Planning to address challenges of fleet management and secure, remote site control.
      • Mid-term Assessment to evaluate existing system performance related to Mod 26-27 tuning, fault tolerance, regulatory non-compliance, root cause failure analysis, control concepts, response, and related diagnostics.
      • Intelligent Alarm Strategy helps you determine what is important and avoid nuisance alarms.

        Owner’s Representative

        Get an expert on your side to support planning, selection, completion, criteria and alignment with your plan.

        • System Requirements and RFP Support ensure relevant system functionality in a complete package.
        • Engineering Reviews to validate proposed system compliance with industry standards, contractual obligations, and interconnection requirements.
        • Test Witnessing under an expert’s watchful eye.
        I need help with SCADA

      Expert Perspective

      Why does their job matter? Trimark team members explain.

      I help users put Vantage to work for effective resource management. As a bridge between customers and our software team, I write documentation delivered on every system screen that explains Vantage functions such as controls and reporting. That answers most user’s questions right on the spot.

      Rob Towns

      Customer Success Program Manager

      Over the last 20 years, we’ve helped over 900 resources navigate CAISO’s NRI. With owners building more utility-scale renewable generation nationwide they’re now asking Trimark to help them comply with PPA and interconnection requirements in ERCOT, MISO, ISO New England, NYSERDA – really anywhere that complex agreements require expert advice.

      Jennifer Strand

      TCS Manager

      We start by understanding our client’s needs. One way we do this is by creating a system block diagram to show Trimark’s equipment and scope. Our customers often rely on our diagrams to make sure everyone is on the same page.

      Russell Stansbury

      Proposal Manager

      We help customers meet Utility and ISO control requirements. It’s exciting to bring equipment together to work as a cohesive, efficient system.

      Yesenia Chavez

      Yesenia Chavez

      Control Engineer I

      The systems we design are a small, but critical, part of power generation. We design the ‘brains’ that monitor and control each resource to be reliable and durable – in some very tough environments. I’m proud to do my part to leave a lasting benefit for society.

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      Vince Brashear

      Director of Engineering and Design

      Projects

      Take a minute to see how Trimark has helped resource owners, EPCs, and ISOs change the electric grid.

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      Ellwood Station

      Jan 29, 2020

      Project Type: Remote Intelligent Gateway (RIG) relocation Location: Oxnard, CA Client/EPC: GenOn Energy Products/Services: Trimark made configuration changes to an…

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      Big Sky North Substation

      Jan 10, 2019

      Big Sky North Project Type: PV rated at 105 MW Location: Lancaster, CA in LA County EPC: Rosendin Electric, Inc….

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      Corazon Ranch Solar (Under Construction)

      Feb 03, 2021

      Project Type: 200 MW PV Location: Laredo, Texas Client/EPC: Worley (project owned by BayWa r.e.) Products/Services: Trimark provided a full…

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      Pullman

      Jun 26, 2023

      Project Type: 22 MW PV Location: Pullman, MI Client/EPC: AES Products/Services: Trimark SCADA, Trimark Historian, Revenue Meter, MET Station, Network…

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