Southwest Power Pool selects GridUnity for interconnection life cycle management

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GridUnity, a provider of cloud-based interconnection and energy analytics for utilities and transmission service providers, announced that Southwest Power Pool (SPP), the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) serving the central U.S., has selected its Interconnection Life Cycle Management (ILCM) platform to improve speed, transparency, and data management for all generation interconnections.

The GridUnity cloud solution runs on AWS and is meant to help streamline communication, support transparent processes, track activity commitments, and ensure accountability for the end-to-end interconnection life cycle. This platform includes multiple groups within each organization as well as third-party contractors that are used to augment and support components of the interconnection process.

GridUnity says its SaaS solution automates information collection and validation, ensures data accuracy, and accelerates collaboration by supporting grid impact analysis and network cost estimates, managing allocation procedures and payments, tracking cluster queue decisions and interconnection agreements, and maintaining documentation throughout the commercial operation of the resource.

 “GridUnity is using AWS to help scale and innovate cloud-based software that helps bring more renewable energy resources to the grid with enhanced security and network reliability,” said Howard Gefen, General Manager – Energy & Utilities, AWS. “We are pleased to help GridUnity to support the acceleration of SPP’s renewable interconnection process.”

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Originally published in POWERGRID International.