NWA Calculator
The NWA Calculator gives planners a fast, consistent way to screen non-wires alternatives against traditional infrastructure investments.
The NWA Calculator gives planners a fast, consistent way to screen non-wires alternatives against traditional infrastructure investments.
Rapid Project Screening
Evaluate whether a deferral opportunity exists in minutes instead of weeks. The calculator takes basic project inputs, including constraint size, timing, and duration, and identifies whether DERs, storage, efficiency, or demand response can credibly meet the need.
Deferral Value Analysis
Quantify the value of deferring or avoiding a wires investment. The tool calculates the carrying cost savings of delaying capital projects and compares them against the cost of the non-wires portfolio required to do it.
Portfolio Design
Explore combinations of resources rather than single-technology answers. The calculator supports mixed portfolios of storage, solar, demand response, and efficiency, sized against the hourly shape of the constraint.
Consistent, Defensible Screening
Replace one-off spreadsheets with a repeatable framework. Standardized methods and transparent assumptions make screening results consistent across projects and easy to defend in front of stakeholders and regulators.
Business Impact
Utilities satisfy regulatory NWA screening requirements without burdening planning teams, catch real deferral opportunities that traditional processes miss, and build the analytical record regulators increasingly expect in grid plans.