Expertise
Grid Technology & Smart Grid Systems
Wired Group brings deep technical expertise in advanced metering infrastructure, distribution automation, demand response, and distributed energy resource integration. Our team has evaluated smart grid deployments across dozens of utilities, providing regulators and consumer advocates with the analytical foundation needed to assess utility technology investment proposals.
Regulatory Economics & Ratemaking
Our expertise in utility regulatory economics spans cost-of-service ratemaking, performance-based regulation, revenue decoupling, and rate design. Wired Group helps regulators craft incentive structures that align utility financial interests with customer and environmental outcomes, reducing the risk of regulatory capture and stranded costs.
Benefit-Cost Analysis
Rigorous benefit-cost analysis is at the core of Wired Group's work. We apply established frameworks — including the California Public Utilities Commission's Cost-Effectiveness Tests and emerging total resource cost methodologies — to evaluate grid modernization investments, demand-side programs, and distributed resource procurement proposals.
Energy Transition Strategy
The transition to a clean energy system requires coordinated investment in generation, transmission, distribution, and customer-side resources. Wired Group advises regulators and consumer advocates on integrated resource planning, grid decarbonization pathways, and the equitable distribution of transition costs and benefits across customer classes.