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Planning / Consulting

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

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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

Set an attainable path. We’ll help you consider the drivers that can impact your direction.

  • ISO / Utility Interconnection: Understand the steps, forms, and testing required to comply with NRI, PPA, and LGIA requirements.
  • Technology Planning: Establish a practical and attainable plan for SCADA, metering, networks, telemetry, MET stations, and NERC-CIP. Define functional requirements, schedules, division of responsibility, and completion criteria.
  • Bid Specifications and RFP Support: Gain expert support to develop RFPs, conduct vendor demonstrations, and negotiate contracts.
  • Green Energy Incentives: Joining a WREGIS, SGIP, GATS, or other incentive or REC program? We’ll help you understand the metering and data services required to participate.
I need help with the NRI!

Advice for Expert Solutions

Create a strong foundation for compliance, operations, and asset management.

  • Metering Approach and Schemes: Understanding advantages, and tradeoffs in metering approaches is critical. Early decisions affect equipment choices, installation plans, certification, testing, and maintenance. Our experts help you make informed decisions regarding alternatives including Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) vs. CAISO ME; AC- vs DC-coupled metering; peer-to-peer metering; and complex energy losses. We’ll help you understand associated requirements for hardware, SQMD, SCME audits, and more.
  • Network Planning: Establish network requirements to connect devices, instruments, and equipment with SCADA in a responsive, reliable, and secure manner.
  • Control Concepts: Define advanced control concepts and strategies to meet PPA and LGIA requirements and/or bid into the open energy markets (e.g., AGC, ADS, Ancillary Services).
Let's make a solid plan

Optimize and Mitigate

Operate at peak efficiency by avoiding known issues, mitigating trouble, and establishing key metrics:

  • Network Assessment: Troubleshoot issues and design utility-scale networks including priorities, dependencies and costs.
  • Operational Analytics: Define indices, systems, and approach to measure performance, maximize profitability, and increase uptime.
I need help with my network
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    Get a Smart Start

    Set an attainable path. We’ll help you consider the drivers that can impact your direction.

    • ISO / Utility Interconnection: Understand the steps, forms, and testing required to comply with NRI, PPA, and LGIA requirements.
    • Technology Planning: Establish a practical and attainable plan for SCADA, metering, networks, telemetry, MET stations, and NERC-CIP. Define functional requirements, schedules, division of responsibility, and completion criteria.
    • Bid Specifications and RFP Support: Gain expert support to develop RFPs, conduct vendor demonstrations, and negotiate contracts.
    • Green Energy Incentives: Joining a WREGIS, SGIP, GATS, or other incentive or REC program? We’ll help you understand the metering and data services required to participate.
    I need help with the NRI!
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    Preliminary Engineering

    Advice for Expert Solutions

    Create a strong foundation for compliance, operations, and asset management.

    • Metering Approach and Schemes: Understanding advantages, and tradeoffs in metering approaches is critical. Early decisions affect equipment choices, installation plans, certification, testing, and maintenance. Our experts help you make informed decisions regarding alternatives including Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) vs. CAISO ME; AC- vs DC-coupled metering; peer-to-peer metering; and complex energy losses. We’ll help you understand associated requirements for hardware, SQMD, SCME audits, and more.
    • Network Planning: Establish network requirements to connect devices, instruments, and equipment with SCADA in a responsive, reliable, and secure manner.
    • Control Concepts: Define advanced control concepts and strategies to meet PPA and LGIA requirements and/or bid into the open energy markets (e.g., AGC, ADS, Ancillary Services).
    Let's make a solid plan
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    Operational Analysis

    Optimize and Mitigate

    Operate at peak efficiency by avoiding known issues, mitigating trouble, and establishing key metrics:

    • Network Assessment: Troubleshoot issues and design utility-scale networks including priorities, dependencies and costs.
    • Operational Analytics: Define indices, systems, and approach to measure performance, maximize profitability, and increase uptime.
    I need help with my network

Expert Perspective

Why does their job matter? Trimark team members explain.

I develop control software that simplifies the operation of utility-scale solar power generation and energy storage. That’s key to making renewable energy stable, reliable, and viable – which is how we’ll save the world.

Brian Buhl

Principal Software Engineer

PV plant operators want a real time SCADA interface that shows exactly what their inverters are producing and what’s down. That’s actionable information they need to fix what’s broken, produce more power, and improve profits.

Rob Barrington

Senior Systems Integrator III

Resource owners want to reduce risk, avoid penalties, and maximize revenue. My role is to help customers gain peace of mind and operate confidently in accomplishing their mission.

Tom Short

Vice President of Consulting and Client Relations

To avoid chaos and support grid reliability and stability, utility-scale resources must tightly manage Voltage, Frequency, NERC and LGIA requirements. Our control solution allows PV and BESS resources to safely connect to the grid, protect their expensive equipment, and bid into more market opportunities.

Stephen Yee

Director of SCADA Controls

Last summer when temperatures topped 117 degrees and power demand reached a record 52 GW, California faced a real threat of blackouts. Our team worked nights and weekends to commission SCADA to control two BESS resources that added 227 MW of critical reserves just in time to help avoid a crisis.

Tom Noble

Engineering Project Manager II

Related Markets

If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you’ve arrived? At Trimark we’re here to help you set attainable targets; anticipate challenges; and guide you past many common hurdles. Whether you need a plan for success or help resolving a problem, our experts smooth the way.

Developers / Independent Power Producers

Chart a course towards regulatory compliance, revenue metering, and advanced control.

Engineer, Procure Construct

Eliminate project gaps and overlaps to meet requirements, avoid change orders, and finish strong.

Utilities

Gain practical advice on metering, secure data telemetry, and control.

Scheduling Coordinator

Considering SCME? We’ll help you create an SQMD plan to meet requirements and maintain compliance.

Projects

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

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Chevron

Chevron 2 and 8.5

Jan 22, 2019

Project Type: PV rated at 10.5 MW (Aggregated) Location: Richmond, CA EPC: Cenergy Power Products/Services: SCADA, revenue meters, MET stations,…

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Antelope DSR3

Jan 28, 2020

Project Type: PV generating facility rated at 20 MW Location: Los Angeles County, CA Client/EPC: Cupertino Electric/sPower Products/Services: Trimark provided…

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Colgreen North Shore

Jan 06, 2019

Project Type:  PV rated at 75 MW Location: Mecca, CA under Imperial Irrigation District (IID) utility EPC: Sunpin Solar Products/Services:…

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Cement City

Cement City

Jun 26, 2023

Project Type: 22 MW PV Location: Cement City, MI Client/EPC: AES Products/Services: Trimark SCADA, Trimark Historian, Revenue Meter, MET Stations,…

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