Reliable & Efficient Energy Solutions
Investing in new or upgraded energy infrastructure is a major financial commitment and technical challenge. From transmission line extensions, to distribution system modernization and integrated/automated substations, we engineer completed facilities that help you maintain safe, reliable service for your customers. Our teams leverage cutting edge tools and technologies to deliver solutions that ensure efficient project start up, smooth execution and quality results. You can rely on TRC to seamlessly manage your most complex power engineering projects from start to finish.
Delivering Power Engineering Solutions
Making your vision actionable from strategy through design and implementation, TRC’s electrical and power engineering services are backed by more than 50 years of experience in delivering engineering solutions. We help utility directors to field engineers to technicians complete high visibility projects safely.
Our comprehensive portfolio of electrical and power services allows us to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet our client’s needs effectively and reliably. We deliver power generation, transmission and distribution engineering services aligned with regulatory requirements in mind. We also provide project management, workflow and process improvement, scheduling and construction oversight expertise for utility projects.
Partnering to Improve Utility Operations
We’ll work alongside your team, as a true partner, to help assess and upgrade equipment and facilities, as well as strengthen and improve operations. Our extensive knowledge and experience as an engineering firm supporting a broad variety of utility systems throughout the US and Canada helps us to develop creative and innovative solutions utilizing the latest tools and technologies to provide practical answers to complex situations.
The utility industry is changing rapidly. So are the challenges that utilities face in providing safe, reliable energy to their customers. TRC is here to help.
Sharing Our Perspectives
Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.
Webinar Replay: Substation Automation – Best Practices for IEC 61850 Implementation
March 29, 2022
Modernizing utility equipment, standards and processes pays dividends for improved safety, security and reliability. But transitioning to a new high-tech system model can be challenging.
The Best Process for Transforming Thermal Generation Power Plants
February 9, 2022
Faced with an aging fleet, stricter environmental regulations, reduced costs for natural gas and competition from renewables, more than 600 power plants have been decommissioned in the last 20 years, a pace that will increase with the announced closure of nearly 350 additional plants by 2025.
Amplifying the Next Phase of Fleet Electrification: The Pickup
September 30, 2021
TRC’s analysis for one client fleet shows that even a $70,000 EV can compete on cost with a comparable gas-hybrid vehicle priced at $40,000 – at least in California where upfront and ongoing incentives stack up quickly.
TRC Acquires Montreal’s Quatric, Expanding Digital Capabilities for Utilities
June 16, 2021
Today, TRC announced the expansion of its digital capabilities with the acquisition of Quatric, a Montreal, QC and Quincy, MA-based firm that provides engineering services and technology solutions to electric and gas utilities.
NERC Addresses Single Points of Failure in Protection Systems Among Other FERC Concerns
October 25, 2018
In a world where energy supply and consumption are becoming increasingly dynamic and complex, energy providers are still expected to maintain a standard of safe, reliable and resilient power delivery. Distributed energy resources (DERs) – small-scale units of local generation connected to the grid at the distribution level that often include battery storage, electric vehicles (EVs), EV charging stations and residential solar – and associated business models are proliferating at a staggering rate. Traditional utility customers are transitioning from interacting with consumers to networking with prosumers, and utilities are facing pressure to become more sophisticated as policymakers push to shrink carbon footprints. Under this lens, traditional utility planning tools are insufficient. These tools have not fully embraced the potential or the expansion of DERs within power networks, where the increased penetration of DERs has the capability to wreak havoc on grid resiliency. Whether it be photovoltaic plus battery storage or EVs and fleet charging, it is imperative to be able to assess the locational impact of each resource in a timely manner. Traditional planning tools leverage a brute force method, requiring a significant amount of an engineering time to conduct one-off studies. But dynamic network tools that quickly model parallel simulations become a necessity to validate load flow calculations and understand the dynamic hosting capacity on areas of the network. Planning tools need to become more automated and integrate better with the utility’s back office systems to help reduce the time required to conduct an engineering analysis. For certain utilities, using traditional tools to validate the network model and load flow calculations could require four to six hours per circuit, and in some cases more than 20 hours. Multiply that by 1,000 circuits – as well as adding in the complexity of optimization-based problems such as DER location, storage dispatch and hosting capacity – and utilities are faced with a significant amount of time required just to conduct the studies, let alone being able to use the results.
TRC Expands Presence in Power Market with Acquisition of Ohio-based IJUS
October 1, 2018
LOWELL, Mass. – TRC, a leading provider of end-to-end engineering, consulting and construction management solutions fueled by innovative technology, announced today it has acquired IJUS, a top power/utility engineering firm based in Gahanna, Ohio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TRC and partners win $1 million grant for engineering innovative New York microgrid
April 20, 2017
TRC is proud to support Huntington, NY bolster power reliability and climate-change resiliency with a sophisticated new “community microgrid’’ combining solar energy, a fuel cell, biogas and traditional natural gas to deliver electricity and heat to local customers and institutions.
