Tangibl Group, Inc

Excited for Top Golf and engaging discussions in Virginia Beach this weekend! Join us for the 2024 VMDAEC Annual Meeting from July 28-30 in Virginia, and don't miss the chance to meet Tangibl President, Mark Brozina.

Persistent inflation, a return to (historically) normal interest rate levels, and competition for material, equipment and resources have changed the way everyone does business in the last two years. Capital programs conceived prior to this upheaval may need to be revisited. Scoping and properly estimating individual projects and optimizing them in a portfolio to yield the highest cost / reliability metric, was always important. Now, it has become critical.

Tangibl has demonstrable experience in project and program management for all aspects of power delivery, from generation through transmission, substation, and distribution. Learn more about how we made this happen for two different, major northeastern utilities, and contact us to find out how we can make it happen for you.



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While moving away from fossil fuels is in theory, in practice the replacement renewable resources are not coming online at sufficient scale to make decarbonization happen within current, aspirational timelines. Forces like electrification of industrial applications, the proliferation of high-demand data centers in many regions, and reshoring of critical manufacturing are fueling demand for electricity at the same time that older thermal resources are aging out.

While the deployment of zero carbon generation resources is becoming increasingly important in decarbonizing the North American electric grid, construction challenges, costs, and lack of sufficient long-duration energy storage have delayed projects. Traditional energy sources will be needed to meet current and future energy demand for the foreseeable future.

As you upgrade your existing plant to meet energy demand, Tangibl’s power engineering and consulting technical teams can help. Our capabilities and experience span the entire capital project life cycle, from project conception and approval through preliminary and detailed engineering, project closeout and commissioning.



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We are excited to announce our participation as both a sponsor and exhibitor at the upcoming Energy Association of Pennsylvania Electric Operations Committees Spring Meetings, scheduled to take place from April 8-10, 2024 at the Blair County Convention Center, in Altoona, PA.

At Tangibl, we are dedicated to providing cutting-edge engineering and project management solutions to our clients. Visit booth 35 and meet Mark Brozina, Tonia Graham and Gary Blacksmith IV, E.I.T., to learn how we have helped one of Pennsylvania’s major electric utilities with their major distribution and substation capital programs.



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Most stories about the challenges of urban substation engineering revolve around new-build projects to upgrade power delivery infrastructure where space is at a premium. Technologies that maximize available space, such as Gas-Insulated Line (GIL) and completely Gas-Insulated Substations (GIS), have become more widely accepted in North America. What you don’t hear much about, on the other hand, are those existing urban stations, mostly air-insulated, that require a major component replacement. As often as not, the replacement component, well, isn’t exactly like the original.

Tangibl was faced with just such a situation when one of our electric utility clients had to replace a transformer in a substation that was located inside an office building, downtown in a major eastern U.S. city. At another of this client’s urban substations, the high-side supply had to be converted from 34.5kV to 69kV. While not as splashy a set of projects as a brand-new GIL or GIS project, both efforts required creativity and field smarts.

Learn more about how creative Tangibl can be and contact us to find out how we can do the same for you.

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A December Bank of America report outlined an unexpected adjustment to Duke Energy’s forecast of power demand, resulting from "unprecedented economic development" in the Carolina region.

Duke Energy anticipates an exceptional ~1GW increase in demand by 2028 and a +2GW rise in demand by 2034, compared to Spring 2023 data, driven by 150-500 MW of manufacturing and tech projects, with an additional 500-1,000 MW of projects in the pipeline. The company’s options to address a high-load scenario include 425 MW of new combustion turbines in 2029, bringing new combined cycle gas capacity forward to 2031 from 2033, and what appears to be a deferral of 280 MW of batteries from 2031 to 2038. On the renewables side of the ledger, the forecast includes adding 1.6 of GW offshore wind by 2034, and incremental 675 MW of solar by 2038. This revelation, shared with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, is indicative of load growth “well above the Companies' historical experience”.

Tangibl has decades of experience providing expert guidance and oversight of capital programs that support levels of growth not seen in half a century. If you are experiencing, or expecting, these levels of high-load-factor growth, please contact us and learn how we’re able to assist with your capital program.



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A December Bank of America report outlined an unexpected adjustment to Duke Energy’s forecast of power demand, resulting from "unprecedented economic development" in the Carolina region.

Duke Energy anticipates an exceptional ~1GW increase in demand by 2028 and a +2GW rise in demand by 2034, compared to Spring 2023 data, driven by 150-500 MW of manufacturing and tech projects, with an additional 500-1,000 MW of projects in the pipeline. The company’s options to address a high-load scenario include 425 MW of new combustion turbines in 2029, bringing new combined cycle gas capacity forward to 2031 from 2033, and what appears to be a deferral of 280 MW of batteries from 2031 to 2038. On the renewables side of the ledger, the forecast includes adding 1.6 of GW offshore wind by 2034, and incremental 675 MW of solar by 2038. This revelation, shared with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, is indicative of load growth “well above the Companies' historical experience”.

Tangibl has decades of experience providing expert guidance and oversight of capital programs that support levels of growth not seen in half a century. If you are experiencing, or expecting, these levels of high-load-factor growth, please contact us and learn how we’re able to assist with your capital program.



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Wishing you a season aglow with joy and warmth. May your holidays sparkle with energy and your new year be powered by success. Happy holidays from Tangibl Group.

Georgia Power’s Emergency IRP: Load Growth Surges, Prompts Additional Generation

In a recent development, Southern Company's subsidiary, Georgia Power Company, filed an “emergency” update to its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), citing a significant increase in load growth forecasts. The filing suggests a probable need for an additional generation approaching 6600 MW by 2030, a substantial jump from the 400 MW projected in the 2022 filing. This move comes as winter peak demand is expected to increase by 30% in 2029, underscoring the pressing need to address the unanticipated surge in electrical load.

This news aligns with our recent blog [https://tangiblinc.com/blog/new-factors-poised-to-drive-load-growth/] on global trends poised to drive load growth, emphasizing the impact of transportation electrification and industrial-scale loads, and our recent posting [https://lnkd.in/eJcnVnnj] about how the South is becoming America’s industrial heartland. As Georgia Power reacts to this surge in demand, it echoes the urgency highlighted in our insights.

As the demand for electrical power intensifies, Tangibl remains committed to efficiently and effectively delivering innovative solutions in our Utility and Power Engineering and Consulting practice. Our expertise and experience [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tangibl-group-inc_the-south-is-fast-becoming-americas-industrial-activity-7130648517294874626-uhqO] positions us as your valued partner in re-imagining and reinforcing America’s electric power infrastructure. If you have questions or would like to discuss or learn more, please reach out to us.

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An April article in the Economist clearly outlines the shifting landscape of the electrical grid and the impact it's having on technologies and regulations.

The electric grid is undergoing a significant transformation, as the world seeks to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and shift toward renewable energy sources. Grid operators are facing complex challenges as they adapt to accommodate renewable energy generation and expanded grid connections. With a growing emphasis on wind and solar power, the grid requires numerous new connections, increased transmission capacity, energy storage solutions, and demand management systems. Furthermore, the grid's control and balancing methods, rooted in steam turbine technology, need to be reimagined for long-term efficiency and reliability. This transformation demands substantial investment, estimated at $1.1 trillion annually until 2050 to achieve net-zero emissions. Challenges include local opposition to infrastructure expansion, regulatory hurdles, and political factors. Decentralization may be a part of the solution, but modern grids offer the potential to bring energy to more people in need, given efficient integration and connection of new energy resources.

Tangibl has decades of experience helping renewable asset owners and developers make their way through increasingly congested interconnection queues, and is currently helping those clients navigate the transition to new interconnection processes nationwide. To learn more, reach out to Ken Foladare, Director of RTO and Regulatory Affairs.

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Tangibl Group 2023 Annual Meeting

The inaugural TANGIBL GROUP 2023 Annual Meeting was an absolute success, bringing our team together for three days of engagement and forward-thinking conversations. Topics ranged from how we use technology to do a better job for our clients, to managing physical and cyber risk, and anticipating how digital marketing will further raise awareness of our capabilities. With the growth Tangibl has experienced in the past two years, many of us were able to meet their colleagues for the first time since coming aboard. As we gear up for 2024 and beyond, this event played a crucial role in shaping our trajectory as we expand our reach across the U.S.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event a success!

Join Tangibl Principal & President, Mark Brozina, and Tonia Graham at the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association (PREA) Annual Meeting Nov 1-3 in Hershey, PA.

For anyone actively involved, or soon to be involved, with power distribution projects, the Tangibl team has decades of experience delivering distribution solutions for municipal and cooperative systems, including modeling the effects of DERs and EV charging systems, and reconfiguring circuits to accommodate load growth. Talk to our team members to explore our services and learn how our experience can help support your initiatives.




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The Tangibl Team is looking forward to participating in the upcoming Energy Association of Pennsylvania Electric Operations Committees Fall Meeting, scheduled to take place from October 30 to November 1, 2023, at The Alloy, a Doubletree by Hilton hotel and conference center, in King of Prussia, PA. This event serves as a significant gathering for front-line supervisors, managers, engineers, decision-makers, and industry professionals from Pennsylvania’s investor-owned electric utilities and their business partners.

Look for Paul Woody and Tonia Graham, along with Tangibl Group engineering and project management team members to learn how we have helped one of Pennsylvania’s major electric utilities with their major distribution and substation capital programs.



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Fall 2023 EEI TDM&ME Conference
Orlando | Oct 1-4

Looking forward to good networking and industry discussion next week in Orlando at the EEI TDM&ME Conference. Please make a point to connect with either Mark Brozina, President or Jeff Fleeman, P.E., Technical Program Manager from Tangibl any time during the event.

Learn more about our engineering consulting and professional services for the utility, power generation, and networked infrastructure industries. We routinely help clients deliver vital services while also providing innovative solutions to their problems. We'd welcome an opportunity to discuss your projects too.
..and, throughout the conference, enjoy full wifi access courtesy of the Tangibl Team!

See you in Orlando. Safe travels.

High demand in EV charging stations is impacting how electric distribution systems will be planned, designed, and operated. Read how Tangibl is helping improve analysis and decision-making about long-term substation transformer capacity investments with impact modeling.



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Looking forward to an engaging weekend at the 2023 VMDAEC Annual Meeting July 23-25 at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia. If you're planning on attending, please take a moment to meet up with Tangibl President, Mark Brozina and Sr. Business Development Manager, Tonia Graham.

Electric Transmission Resilience - Discussion at Chicago’s University of Illinois’ Transmission Business School

We are proud to have been part of this year’s presentation at University of Illinois’ Transmission Business School in Chicago. On Thursday, June 15, Tangibl’s Jeff Fleeman, Technical Program Manager, presented a session on Electric Transmission Resilience exploring the imperative to ensure a resilient grid in the context of ever-increasing reliance on electricity, concurrent with increasing natural and human threats and the rapid shift in the nature and locations of generation resources. Transmission owners must ensure sufficient readiness before, agile response during, and full recovery after extreme, large scale, and wide area events in order to protect the health, welfare and economic interests of the communities they serve. Engaging discussion on the issues and Q&A followed the presentation.

The school is attended by representatives from various industry stakeholder organizations, and is hosted annually by Professor Emeritus George Gross. The school comprises four and half days of instruction regarding various Transmission topics ranging from system fundamentals to planning, operations, analysis and simulations, resilience, regulatory issues, market design and operation, competitive projects and risk management.

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As budget pressures begin to drive companies into capital prioritization exercises, those companies that choose to involve a partner who’s experienced with the detailed challenges of prioritization are benefiting from the decision to not go it alone. Tangibl has significant experience prioritizing capital projects in their programs for clients, specifically when agreed-to reliability improvements in terms of cost per customer have been the binding constraint.



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Engineering and consulting for the power and utilities sector

At the recent PREA Engineering Section Spring Meeting, Tangibl Principal & President, Mark Brozina, spoke about how the proliferation of EV charging facilities is expected to have a disproportionate, early impact on small municipal and rural electric systems - not just on urban and suburban investor-owned electric systems. Are you ready to handle this new load and execute system reinforcements?

If you need help, turn to Tangibl. Our team has decades of experience delivering distribution solutions for municipal and cooperative systems, including modeling the effects of DERs and EV charging systems, and reconfiguring circuits to accommodate load growth.



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Last week we engaged in many insightful discussions at the 2023 PJM Annual Meeting. It’s clear that as the energy transition continues, maintaining grid reliability will always be the first priority, and all the ISOs/RTOs will need to enhance their transmission delivery systems and communications with each other to maintain it. Learn how Tangibl can help address this and other initiatives in the power and utilities sector.



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Are long-term power capacity shortages in our future? — Tangibl Group, Inc

Did you know that power capacity shortages could become commonplace in the next few years if certain challenges associated with the transition to renewables are not adequately resolved? Read our blog post to learn about these challenges and what can be done to address them.



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Will you be in Dallas @ EEI Spring Transmission, Distribution & Metering Conference 2023?

Look for John Schwartzenberg, Director of Power Systems at Silicon Power, and Mark Brozina, President of Tangibl, at Tuesday’s Emerging Issues session with our presentation on Sub-cycle Transfer Switches / Full Turnkey Installations (EPC).

April 16-19, 2023 / Dallas, TX / Hyatt Regency Dallas
See you in Texas!



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Remember the Christmas cold snap? The increased electrical load to warm houses was a record breaker compared to the last ten years - over 30 GW higher than the next highest recorded - with its lowest demand exceeding 40 GW on Christmas Eve! The discussion continues on resource reliability, fuel mix and the need for long-duration storage resources and fast-start generation.

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You may have heard that on December 23rd, PJM’s entire footprint experienced Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) over $3,700/MWh. What you may not have been aware of, however, is how close to the edge the system ran that evening. This unexpected Christmas surprise has sparked a discussion about resource reliability, fuel mix and the need for long-duration storage resources and fast-start generation.

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A Christmas Surprise — Tangibl During final preparations for the holiday season late in the afternoon of Friday December 23, my daughter (who had an internship at PJM Interconnection a few years ago while in college) showed me a screenshot of actual load for all of PJM diverging upward from the forecast load (internships do mak

We at Tangibl Group want to extend our warmest wishes to you this holiday season! Have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

A new partnership between Silicon Power Corporation and Tangibl Group, Inc. is developing engineered-system solutions for facilities that value high levels of power quality and continuity. What’s unique about these solutions is that they address the problem at medium voltage (4kV to 34.5kV), where the electric utility delivers power to the facility.

Facilities who have experienced even minor (100ms) power disruption know that this often means costly system restarts, and often, lost production. The new technologies being used by the partnership limit power disruption to around 4ms which avoids these unwanted downtimes. Good news for any sensitive load issues like those found in utility, semiconductor, airport, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, government, and data/financial applications.

Tangibl will lead the service delivery under engineering and construction forms of contract best suited to your individual situation.

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Silicon Power and Tangibl Group Partner to Deliver High Quality Uninterrupted Power to Sensitive Power Load Applications — Tangibl Silicon Power Corporation (Silicon Power) and Tangibl Group, Inc. (Tangibl) have partnered to develop engineered-system solutions for facilities that value high levels of power quality and continuity. As onshoring and re-industrialization take hold in this decade, these fully engineered installation

For much of the 21st century, load growth has been flat - or in some periods - slightly negative. Load forecasts in regions such as PJM tended to overshoot reality as demand response and energy efficiency gained traction in the early 2000s. Reserve margins grew as renewable interconnections nearly quadrupled in the last few years. Two phenomena have the potential to change this trend:

Transportation electrification, and Re-shoring / On-shoring of high-value and critical manufacturing.

Click below to learn more about these two areas and their potential impact on new load growth in the coming years. Contact us to discuss these issues in more detail with our team.

Global Trends Poised to Drive Load Growth — Tangibl For much of the 21st century, load growth has been flat - or in some periods - slightly negative. Load forecasts in regions such as PJM tended to overshoot reality as demand response and energy efficiency gained traction in the early 2000s. Reserve margins grew as renewable interconnections nearl

News from PJM Inside Lines, Nov 30
FERC Approves Interconnection Process Reform Plan

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved PJM’s June 14, 2022, interconnection reform filing that proposed to implement a more efficient and timely process of handling New Service Requests by, among other reforms, transitioning from a “first-come, first-served” queue approach to a “first-ready, first-served” cycle approach. PJM’s reformed approach to handling New Service Requests also improves project cost certainty for network upgrades, and significantly improves the overall process by which new and upgraded generation resources are studied and introduced onto the electrical grid in 13 states and the District of Columbia.

The new plan will prioritize about half of the current 2700 PJM projects, including a “fast-lane” process for projects to help clear the existing backlog.

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FERC Approves Interconnection Process Reform Plan | PJM Inside Lines NewsPlanning FERC Approves Interconnection Process Reform Plan November 30, 2022 1645 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved PJM’s June 14, 2022, interconnection reform filing that proposed to implement a more efficient and timely process of h...

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary, Russell C. Redding, speaking at the PREA 2022 Annual Meeting, noted that more land in California was idled last year than all the land put into conservation in Pennsylvania. Not because of lack of labor or demand, but... for lack of water!

We are fortunate to have over 40 inches of rainfall annually in the Commonwealth. Yet, with all that abundance, we need to value water properly.

Tangibl's utility rate consulting professionals can prepare all elements of your next water rate case. Contact Wade Horigan to learn more.

Looking forward to connecting at the Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association (PREA) Annual Meeting in Hershey later this week. We’ll be there, meet with the Tangibl team, who would welcome an opportunity to chat. Looking forward to informative presentations and good discussion.

Nov 9-11, 2022 / Hershey, PA
See you there!