Transmission Project History
What do grid upgrades cost, and how do their schedules change?
Compare sourced construction costs, completed-project spending and forecast histories, then investigate grid dependencies for new loads.
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Transport Model
What does it cost to move a fuel or food shipment?
Compare transport costs, energy use and emissions across a global supply chain.
Grid Planner
What changes when we add clean energy?
Explore generation, storage and policy choices, and see their effects on dispatch, cost and emissions.
Capacity Expansion
Which resources should a future grid build?
Find a portfolio for an emissions target, then inspect its costs, constraints and assumptions.
Grid Reliability Lab
Will the portfolio keep the lights on?
Stress-test weather years and equipment outages. Explore shortfalls, their timing and uncertainty.
Grid Operator
Can you balance the grid for a day?
Practice committing generators, dispatching storage and preparing for the evening ramp.
California Grid Map
Where are the grid bottlenecks?
Investigate transmission, generation, constraints and outage windows in geographic context.
Site Selection Atlas
Which sites best fit my project?
Compare battery, solar, wind, geothermal, hydrogen, data-center and closed-loop pumped-hydro locations using resource-specific evidence.
Battery Locator
Where should I investigate battery opportunities?
Explore nodal prices and opportunity scores, then examine the drivers behind a location.
Battery Revenue Index
How does a battery’s estimated revenue compare?
Compare public-data estimates, reporting periods and day-ahead energy benchmarks.
Power Flow Solver
Why do congestion and electricity prices diverge?
Edit a network and solve DC dispatch to inspect flows, prices, storage and unserved load.
AC Grid Lab
How do voltage, reactive power and losses interact?
Build and solve small AC networks, diagnose violations and follow guided experiments.
Industrial Heat Radar
Which facilities merit an electrification study?
Screen process heat, equipment evidence, grid context and scenario economics.
PyPSA-CA
How does a grid scenario perform across a network?
Configure a California model and inspect optimized dispatch, transmission and capacity additions.
Green Hydrogen Atlas
Where could renewable hydrogen be produced?
Compare solar, wind and hybrid designs with editable assumptions and hourly resource profiles.
California’s True Demand
How much demand is hidden behind rooftop solar?
Explore reported grid demand and modeled rooftop solar in the CAISO service area.
Interconnection Queue
What happens to projects waiting to connect?
Explore historical outcomes, active projects and the queue around a location.
Busbar Mapping
Where is future capacity being planned?
Explore observed buildout, reported projects and planning allocations at grid substations.
DART Monitor
When do day-ahead and real-time prices separate?
Investigate price spreads, forecast changes and the hours driving historical patterns.
Power Plant Census
How is California’s generating fleet changing?
Follow named generators through their lives and inspect operating and market-stress indicators.
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