Resource Planner
IRP filing and regulatory defense
What You Do Today
Prepare the IRP filing document and supporting workpapers. Respond to commission staff data requests and defend the plan through hearing proceedings. Navigate the approval process that authorizes the utility to pursue its preferred portfolio.
AI That Applies
AI assists with document assembly, cross-referencing workpapers, and preparing data request responses from the model outputs.
Technologies
How It Works
The system ingests model outputs as its primary data source. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.
What Changes
Document preparation and data request response compilation accelerates.
What Stays
Crafting the regulatory narrative, defending planning assumptions under cross-examination, and the judgment about when to fight for preferred portfolio elements and when to compromise.
What To Do Next
This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.
Establish Your Baseline
Know where you are before you move
Before adopting AI tools for irp filing and regulatory defense, understand your current state.
Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.
Define Your Measures
What to track and how to calculate it
Time per cycle
How to calculate
Measure how long irp filing and regulatory defense takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.
Why it matters
The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.
Quality of output
How to calculate
Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.
Why it matters
Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.
Start These Conversations
Who to talk to and what to ask
your VP Operations or COO
“What's our current capability gap in irp filing and regulatory defense — and is it a people problem, a tools problem, or a process problem?”
They're prioritizing which operational processes to automate
your process improvement or lean lead
“How would we know if AI actually improved irp filing and regulatory defense — what would we measure before and after?”
They understand the workflow dependencies that AI tools need to respect
Check Your Prerequisites
Confirm readiness before you invest
Check items as you confirm them.