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Utility Advisory

SPS Institute helps utilities strengthen capital planning, asset management, infrastructure prioritization, and risk-informed decision-making through structured and defensible advisory frameworks.

Core Advisory Areas

Advisory engagements are structured around interconnected focus areas that strengthen utility decision quality, consistency, and defensibility.

Capital Planning, Prioritization & Board Justification

Support utilities in aligning capital decisions with reliability, resiliency, operational realities, financial constraints, and long-term infrastructure stewardship.

Asset Management & ISO 55000 Alignment

Strengthen lifecycle planning, governance, decision consistency, and enterprise asset management practices using structured asset management principles.

Aging Infrastructure Strategy & Replacement Planning

Prioritize replacement and modernization of aging infrastructure using condition, consequence, system importance, and long-term value considerations.

Risk & Value Modeling

Develop transparent and defensible frameworks for evaluating likelihood, consequence, risk exposure, operational impact, and infrastructure value.

Model Governance, Validation & Decision Integrity

Review assumptions, methodologies, scoring logic, governance structures, sensitivity, and appropriate use of models to strengthen decision defensibility.

Wildfire Mitigation & Resiliency Planning

Support utilities in developing risk-informed wildfire mitigation, resiliency investment, and infrastructure prioritization strategies.

Support public power utilities pursuing stronger reliability, safety, workforce development, governance, and operational maturity through RP3-aligned practices and continuous improvement.

Infrastructure Funding & Investment Justification

Help utilities strengthen the justification, prioritization, and defensibility of infrastructure investments supporting grants, resiliency funding, and modernization initiatives.

Utility Decision Data Readiness

Help utilities improve the structure, quality, and usability of planning and asset data needed to support integrated decision-making and scalable prioritization frameworks.

From Advisory to Repeatable Decision Systems

Each engagement helps utilities strengthen data structure, governance, prioritization logic, and decision frameworks that support scalable deployment of the Decision Navigator platform.

Assess
Structure
Prioritize
Validate
Deploy

Engagement Approach

Diagnostic Assessment

Short review of current planning, prioritization, governance, and decision practices.

Focused Pilot

Targeted work within a single asset class, planning process, or strategic initiative.

Portfolio-Scale Decision Frameworks

Broader implementation across infrastructure planning, asset management, and decision governance.

Strengthen the Structure Behind Critical Utility Decisions

SPS Institute helps utilities improve the structure, defensibility, and long-term effectiveness of infrastructure decisions through integrated advisory and decision-support frameworks.

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