A Comprehensive Range of Tailored Energy Solutions.
By joining forces with EnerVision, Vantage Point offers a comprehensive range of energy solutions designed to help organizations improve efficiency, integrate renewables, and adopt sustainable practices. Advance technologies and strategic insights optimize energy use, reduce cost, and enhance environmental performance through tailored support in demand response, smart grids, and energy storage.
Large Load Assessments & Strategies
Focused strategies that strengthen utility stability and support high demand customers:
- Optimize Wholesale Power Supply and Load Management
- Ensure Reliable Service
- Adapt Organizatonally
- Develop Program to Enhance Customer Satisfaction
- Address the Needs of Large Power Consumers
Strategic Planning
Partner-driven planning that helps utility leaders develop forward looking strategies that align with regulatory requirements, technological advancements, and evolving customer needs.
Focused Areas:
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Risk Assessments & Mitigation
- Development of Implementation Roadmaps
Benefits:
- Enhances Operation Efficiency
- Drives Innovation
- Supports Long-Term Organizational Goals
Workforce Planning & Succession Planning
Partnering with utility management and staff to build a skilled, adaptable workforce for the evolving energy sector by:
- Assessing Capabilities
- Identifying Critical Skill Gaps
- Forecasting Future Needs
Through data-driven analysis and strategic workforce modeling, we will build you a tailored solution that prioritizes recruitment, training, engagement, and organizational resilience.
Business Planning
Strategic guidance and comprehensive support help electric utilities align, organizational goals, evaluate performance, and create actional plans to:
- Enhance Operation Efficiency
- Manage Financial Risk
- Leverage New Opportunities
- Achieve Strategic Goals
Grant Supports
Grant support services provide electric utilities with expert assistance in identifying, securing, and managing funding, offering a range of customizable services tailored to each client’s unique needs, including:
- Grant Identification Services
- Dedicated Grant Team of Experts
- Monthly Grant Update Meetings
- Access to Successful Grant Applications
- Needs Assessment and Strategic Grant Outlook
- Custom Project Specific Grant Research & Funding Strategy
- Project Development and Readiness
- Grant Writing, Editing, and Review
- Grant Debriefs
- Grant Training
Facilitation & Educational Support
Through tailored workshops, training sessions, and strategic facilitation, Vantage Point Solutions empowers teams to:
- Complex Industry Topics
- Understand Emerging Trends
- Engage in Productive Dialog on Critical Issues
Focused on creating shared understanding and aligning stakeholder perspectives, Vantage Point’s experienced facilitators ensure that meetings are structured, goal-oriented, and result driven. Together we can build a stronger foundation for achieving your organization objectives.
Optimize Your Wholesale Power Cost
These account for 60-70% of distribution utility expenses. Gain expert analysis and strategic planning in bilateral and RTO markets.
Our Specialties Include:
- Wholesale Power Market Studies: Discover local wholesale power market prices.
- Market Opportunities: Leverage proven RFP process that evaluates market pricing and incorporates scenario and risk analysis to help maximize opportunities for your members.
- Market Option Assessments: Validate your current power supply and explore future potential.
- Power Supply & Transmission Contract Negotiations: Leverage our experience and knowledge to maximize the benefits of your agreements.
- Power Supply and Transmission Contract Administration: Validate supplier invoices to ensure contract compliance.
- Power Supply and Transmission Contract Budgeting: Build accurate budgets with scenario analyses to test and ensure a reliable forward-look at cost.
- DER (Distributed Energy Resource) Model: Develop a tailored DER strategy integrating your business, operations, and member services, while evaluating opportunities and designing programs for your utility.
- TEP (Total Energy Plan) / IRP (Integrated Resource Plan): Achieve the optimal mix of generation resources through load/needs analysis and scenario modeling to meet your future requirements with our proven decision-making tool.
Clean energy technologies are now standard in utility resource planning. Whether pursuing carbon neutrality (net zero) or environmental stewardship, these options involve an evolving complex decision-making process.
Renewables Evaluations
Analysis and procurement of clean energy technologies like solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, batteries, or solar + batteries start with:
“What problem are you trying to solve?”
- Determine Size, Technology & Location
- Solicitate Issues from Vendors
- Evaluate & Assess Risk of Bids and Proposals
- Conduct Contract Negotiations and Economic Analysis
- Contract Administration
DER & VPP Analysis and Program Development
Vantage Point works with utilities to develop a DER strategy that incorporates aspects of their business, operations, and member service functions to evaluate, design, and implement DER programs that are beneficial to the utility and their members/customer
The DER Evaluation Process
- Build Initial Model Inputs
- Send out information request and collect data
- Scrub data and refine inputs
- Run DER Optimization Model
- Perform Baseline Analysis
- Verify Results and Refine Inputs
- Conduct Iterative Assessment Cycles
- Conduct Data Analysis
- Query Results & Perform Regression Analysis
- Set Program Criteria Based on Results
- Perform Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Individual CBA and Break-Even Analysis on DER Technologies and Programs
- Prepare Report
- Provide On-Site Customer Support
- Walk Through Program Design and Implementation
Net Zero Planning
Net Zero Planning means achieving carbon neutral emissions, following Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocols across three scopes:Net Zero Planning means achieving carbon neutral emissions, following Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocols across three scopes:
- Scope 1: Direct GHG emissions come from sources owned & controlled by the utility.
- Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions from purchased electricity consumed by the utility.
- Scope 3: Other indirect GHG emissions are an optional reporting category which are consequences of the utility’s activities and are from sources not owned or controlled by the utility.
Net Zero planning integrates baseline Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions with historical and forward-looking data to model scenario-based pathways and timelines to Net Zero. A continuously updated scorecard supports decision-making as technologies and regulatory conditions evolve.
Short Term Load Forecasting
- Predict Future Electricity Demand
- Unlock Load Insights
- Live Forecasting Adjustments
- Seamless Data Management
Natural Gas Hedging Advisement
- Eliminate uncertainty from natural gas prices.
- Secure stable pricing through hedging strategies.
- Gain expert guidance on hedging requirements, structures, and opportunities.
Compliance Services
Electric utilities must navigate complex federal, state, local, and industry regulatory requirements. We provide turnkey project coordination, government regulation compliance expertise, and peace of mind to allow staff to perform daily operational task.
- FERC/NERC Reliability Compliance
- Emergency Response Planning and Business Continuity Planning
- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP)
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Policy & Implementation
Enterprise Risk Management policies and practices help utilities proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and manage risk that impact both operations and customers. Vantage Point supports the development of detailed, living ERM plans that incorporate input from leadership and staff to adapt as risk and conditions evolve.
Our Specialties Include:
- Financial Forecasting
- Cost of Service Studies
- Pricing and Rate Strategies & Design
- Integrated Revenue & COS Model
- Tariff Design, Rate Setting & Implementation
