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.

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Our Electrical and Power Services

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Distributed Energy and Microgrids

Transformative solutions for a reliable, resilient and intelligent energy future.

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Power Distribution Engineering

Comprehensive solutions from assessment to planning, design, engineering and construction.

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Power System Studies

Helping you make smart decisions about your power system.

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Protection and Controls

Design, engineering and compliance solutions for critical, high-risk substation and system protection challenges.

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Substations

Innovative solutions, from design through commissioning, for new, expanded or retrofitted facilities.

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Telecommunications Engineering

As technology evolves, integrating communications retrofits and upgrades ensure reliability, availability and business continuity. 

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Transmission Engineering

Detailed design and planning solutions for overhead and underground facilities.

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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.

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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.

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Sharing Our Perspectives

Our practitioners share their insights and perspectives on the trends and challenges shaping the market.

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Videos

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TRC Ranked No. 20 on Annual List of Top U.S. Design Firms

May 9, 2021

TRC has once again been named one of the top engineering firms in the country by Engineering News-Record, finishing No. 20 on the publication’s annual list of the Top 500 design firms.

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TRC Companies Welcomes New Power Sector President Ed Myszka

September 2, 2020

Myszka brings over 30 years of innovation, market development and operations experience to TRC.

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Microgrids: A mega-opportunity for electric utilities

June 2, 2020

For the traditional electric utility business model, microgrids could be perceived as a financial threat. But we see many ways microgrids can be both moneymakers and cost-savers for utilities.

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MCE Announces Partner for Comprehensive Energy Storage Program

May 12, 2020

TRC will help support MCE’s community and vulnerable customer resiliency efforts

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Energy Efficiency as a Resource in Southern California

March 19, 2020

EE as a Resource programs that provide capacity and energy savings to the grid must be dependable and persistent to replace essential power plant capacity.

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Resilient, Distributed Energy as a Vital Public Service

February 26, 2020

Implementing resilient solutions for many means ensuring power supply to critical facilities, emergency response efforts and local authorities during power outages.

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Why TRC is Teaming Up with Opus One Solutions

June 13, 2019

TRC is partnering with Opus One Solutions to help utilities to seamlessly plan, build and manage the grid of tomorrow.

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Regulatory Updates

NERC Addresses Single Points of Failure in Protection Systems Among Other FERC Concerns

October 25, 2018

Under the proposed NERC TPL-001-5 standard, utilities with transmission planning responsibilities will be required to identify reliability risks related to protection system failures and take mandatory corrective action. It will be critical to have an in depth understanding of your company’s protection system settings and to perform the system studies necessary to identify where single points of failure may result in cascading tripping of transmission elements. Mitigation actions may require the installation of redundant protection systems which in turn may lead to significant substation redesign. Transmission planners and planning coordinators should begin preparing for any necessary protection system changes. TPL-001-5 Overview NERC began studying the reliability risk associated with single points of protection system failure starting in 2011 as directed in FERC Order 754. TPL-001-5 will bring significant changes for Planning Coordinators and Transmission Planners as they perform annual Planning Assessments. There is a new obligation to adequately account for the reliability risk posed by single point of protection system failure via risk-based Assessment. This reliability risk management approach will be implemented through modifications to the Category P5 Planning Event which is described in Table 1 of the TPL-001-5 standard. NERC believes that the most cost-effective Corrective Action Plans to address unacceptable system performance for the P5 Planning Events will likely be to add protection system component redundancy in certain cases. Protection system redundancy changes to address Category P5 Event system performance violations should reduce or even negate non-redundant component related risks that need to be considered in assessing transmission system performance. These risks will be identified during simulations of certain extreme events as required under the standard. TPL-001-5 also addresses reliability risks related to outage management as directed in FERC Order 786. The standard requires utility planners to consider maintenance outages of significant facilities as well as outages for critical long lead time to repair or replace equipment. Specifically, it addresses stability analysis to assess system performance for conditions expected during possible unavailability of long lead time equipment. Although it is not a NERC defined term, it is believed that a “spare equipment strategy will be sufficient to allow flexibility for utilities to conduct both steady state and stability analysis required by TPL-001-5. For example, a utility’s spare equipment strategy may include the warehousing of a replacement transformer to be installed given the failure of an in service transformer. When a utility’s spare equipment strategy may prevent major transmission equipment from being out-of-service for one year or more, this possible equipment unavailability need not be assessed as part of TPL-001-5.

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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.

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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.

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TRC Acquires Utility Support Systems, Inc.

July 22, 2013

TRC Companies has acquired Georgia-based Utility Support Systems, Inc. , a professional engineering company primarily supporting the power/utility market.