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A lot of the conversations at this year’s Transmission & Interconnection Summit are going to come back to one thing: scale.
Scale of load growth.
Scale of transmission investment.
Scale of interconnection demand.
Scale of planning uncertainty.
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Jun 15
As transmission corridors become more congested, the space around energized infrastructure is becoming more complicated.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/xLLR5ps
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Jun 10
Poor UX in critical infrastructure software does not just waste time.
It creates risk.
When workflows are unclear, users rely on memory. When outputs are hard to interpret, review takes longer. When settings are buried, people create workarounds.
That is why usability matters.
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We have been expanding our power systems modeling capabilities because the industry needs both engineering expertise and better tooling. Those two things belong together.
Power systems expertise, software engineering, automation, and UX working together.
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For most of the grid’s history, generator behavior during disturbances was predictable because it was governed by physics.
That’s no longer true.
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One thing we care a lot about at Simple Thread: software teams should not build utility tools in isolation.
When you are building for planning, studies, or interconnection workflows, context matters.
The best tools come from software, design, & engineering working together.
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With more DER, electrification, and changing load patterns, planning teams need to understand how the system behaves over time.
That is where time-series analysis matters.
Not by replacing engineering judgment, but by making complex analysis easier to run, repeat, and trust.
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Utilities are being asked to move quickly and carefully at the same time.
That is a hard balance.
The answer is not just asking engineers to work faster.
It is giving them better workflows, better tools, and better ways to evaluate system impacts at scale.
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May 29
You’re asked to make a “small change” to a codebase you didn’t write… and suddenly you’re deep in a system that makes no sense.
It’s easy to get frustrated.
What if the goal isn’t to fight the code, but to understand it?
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#TechDebt #Developers
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May 27
We’ll be at the Transmission & Interconnection Summit in D.C. this June.
There is a lot to talk about this year:
Data centers. Large loads. Transmission expansion. Queue pressure. Longer planning horizons. More uncertainty.
Looking forward to the conversations in D.C.
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May 26
Good UX is not decoration.
For engineering teams, it is operational leverage.
The best tools do not just give engineers more features. They help them think, work, and make decisions more clearly.
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May 25
One of the hardest parts of transmission planning right now is that the target keeps moving.
Load forecasts change. Large load requests move. Generation assumptions shift. Timelines stretch further out.
The grid is getting more complex. The study process has to catch up.
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May 22
In our latest blog, we explore that idea through a simple example: wiring a 3-way light switch that should have worked… but didn’t.
That same challenge shows up in power systems work all the time.
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#GridPlanning #DataEngineering #EnergySystems
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May 21
We’re excited to welcome Darby to Simple Thread!
Originally from VA and now based on FL’s Space Coast, she spends her free time exploring beaches and bird trails, dancing salsa and bachata, caring for her indoor plants, and hanging out with her two rescue pitbulls, Coco & Zeus.
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May 20
Looking forward to attending the T&I Summit in D.C.
The conversations happening across the industry right now around transmission planning, interconnection reform, large load growth, and study scalability are some of the most important we’ve seen in years.
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May 19
ERCOT has 225 GW of large load requests in its queue. Peak demand is 85.5 GW.
The grid was built for loads that stand still. The next chapter belongs to the teams figuring out how to plan for the ones that don’t.
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May 15
Most people think of the Common Information Model (CIM) as a standard, but it’s really collaboration across the entire power industry.
In our blog, we take a closer look at the orgs behind CIM and how they work together to make grid interop possible. buff.ly/Rk6Ia4P
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May 14
At Simple Thread, we’re excited to have Arash on the team.
From Tehran to Vancouver, he’s built deep expertise in EMT studies, IBRs, and grid modeling across North America—and brings both technical depth and leadership to every project.
#PowerSystems #GridPlanning
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May 13
Come hang out with us at Hardywood for our next Energy Tech VA meetup.
Wednesday, June 10 @ 5:30 PM
We’re bringing the community together at one of Richmond’s favorite breweries for an easygoing evening of conversation and connection.
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May 12
The interconnection queue is getting harder to trust.
One reason: phantom data centers.
Utilities are seeing large load requests enter the queue at unprecedented scale. But many of these projects never materialize, or change significantly before they do.
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