This playbook explores how transmission planners can bridge workflow gaps, ensure regulatory compliance, and build defensible long-term grid plans. Meeting America’s soaring electricity demand requires unprecedented investment in grid infrastructure. However, rising utility costs mean these investments face stricter scrutiny than ever before. FERC Order 1920 introduces rigorous mandates, requiring transmission providers to conduct 20-year regional planning, update forecasts every five years, and stress multiple future scenarios. Traditionally, economic, reliability, and policy teams plan in separate verticals using isolated data and tools. This fragmented approach causes costly manual work, elevates the risk of calculation errors, and compromises data credibility during stakeholder reviews. This playbook outlines how moving to a unified, shared data environment eliminates guesswork and streamlines your workflows. You’ll learn: How disconnected planning workflows introduce errors and slow down critical compliance work The benefits of using a unified power system model to run simultaneous capacity expansion and reliability studies How to leverage expert consulting and advanced software to build highly traceable, defensible long-term plans
