Transmission Planner
Coordinating with the RTO/ISO on regional planning studies
What You Do Today
Participate in RTO planning committees, submit data for regional studies, and advocate for projects that benefit your service territory while meeting regional reliability needs.
AI That Applies
AI compiles planning data requirements, flags inconsistencies in assumptions between neighboring utilities, and automates data submission formatting.
Technologies
How It Works
The system reads the current state — resource availability, demand patterns, and constraints — to inform its scheduling logic. The automation engine executes each step in the process sequence — validating inputs, applying business rules, generating outputs, and routing exceptions to human review queues. The output is a recommended plan or schedule that accounts for the identified constraints and optimization criteria. The committee work.
What Changes
Data preparation and validation are automated. You spend time on strategy and advocacy instead of spreadsheet formatting.
What Stays
The committee work. Planning is a political process as much as a technical one. Relationships and advocacy determine whose projects get built.
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 coordinating with the rto/iso on regional planning studies, 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 coordinating with the rto/iso on regional planning studies 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 coordinating with the rto/iso on regional planning studies — 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
“What's the biggest bottleneck in coordinating with the rto/iso on regional planning studies today — and would AI address the bottleneck or just speed up something that's already fast enough?”
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.