Answers to common questions about Gridtwin Software
Different utility territories often have different interconnection costs. The catalogs are used to ensure interconnection costs are accurate for the utility, connection type, and substation.
You can view any public catalogs created by the Gridtwin team, which are automatically applied to any new projects.
If you would like to create your own custom catalog, you can start by viewing and saving a copy of an existing Gridtwin catalog. You can also build your own from a blank template. These catalogs are private to your organization and not shared.
In the Results Summary section of a project page, select the ‘Edit Study’ button. This will bring you to the manual edit screen and from here you can customize the interconnection study.
In the map section, you can draw new lines for extensions, upgrades, or reconductors. When adding a new line, the length and cost are automatically calculated and added to the Bill of Materials.
In the Bill of Material section at the bottom, you can delete and add line items, change quantity, or change cost. The final Bill of Materials will recalculate based on your edits.
External project links are added as a helpful field for project developers. If you have the same project saved in another project management software or CRM tool, you can add a link in this field. Click ‘Edit’ to insert the link for the project.
Similarly, if you want to save a link to your Gridtwin project, the URL at the top of the project page is unique for each project and can be used as a link in other software.
The map’s polygon feature allows you to create a custom project boundary directly on the map and save it to your account. Please refer to a visual demonstration of how to use the polygon feature in the 'How-to' guide. Keep in mind that this tool is best used in conjunction with the map’s satellite view in order to see open plots of land.
From your project site’s results page, select “Edit” to alter the project's boundaries, point of interconnection, or three phase extension line. Be certain to double-check that your edits are as desired before selecting “Save” at the bottom of the page, as there is no way to immediately revert to your project’s previous version after saving. Additionally, it is important to run a new interconnection analysis after editing your project to see the updated figures.
When looking at a parcel detail page, select “View” next to “Full Parcel Details,” and you’ll find even more information, including the owner’s name, if available, and often an applicable mailing address.
Gridtwin collects and analyzes data from public data sources, which are typically aggregated from government agencies, academic organizations, and private groups. Government agencies and the respective land designations can vary considerably from state to state, so please explore our data sourcing pages to learn more about Gridtwin’s map layers.
On your menu bar, navigate to “My Organization” from the “More” dropdown. On the left side of this page, select “Invite a Member;” fill in the appropriate information, and send out the invitation.
Currently, you can only invite members to your team if they share the same email domain. For instance, jane.doe@gridtwin.energy can only invite other users who share the @gridtwin.energy domain.
Invitations that haven’t yet been accepted can be quickly canceled; simply click on “Pending Invites” from your “My Organization” page to find the mistakenly sent invitation and click “Cancel” next to it.
Some map layers aren’t visible at all zoom levels; first, make sure you are adequately zoomed in to view the layer you’re interested in. If you are able to select the layer but no data is appearing, it’s possible that your browser is having trouble loading the dataset, this can be resolved by reloading the page entirely.
Only members within your organization can see your projects. Team members can view projects within their organization by toggling the selection of the “User” criteria at the top of the page. You can use this function to display the projects of any one specific person, or look at projects from all team members at once.
Yes, the information relevant to all of your saved projects can be converted into a .CSV file and exported for use in Microsoft Excel and, subsequently, any compatible CRM. From the “My Projects” page, use the menu options to display the projects you’re interested in and order them how you’d like. Then simply select “Export CSV” and the file will download onto your computer.
Yes. Any saved project can be exported as a .KML file compatible with various mapping programs. Simply go to the page of the project you’d like to export in this format, and select “Export KML” under the “Results Summary” heading.
To conduct a search within a defined area, you have two options. The first is to use a defined “Search Area” on the search form. The second is to use the map-based search function. For a demonstration of how to use these features, please refer to the 'How-to' guides.
From your project site’s Results page, select “Edit” and scroll down to the “Local Network Inputs.” Check “Override Local Values” in order to input new values in this section.
From your project site’s Results page, select “Edit” and scroll to “Cost Estimate Modifiers.” Select “Apply Cost Modifiers” to be able to edit the fields of this section
While you shouldn’t try to run multiple interconnection analyses on the same project at once, there is no limit to how many times you can tweak and re-analyze a project. Please do not attempt to analyze more than 2-3 unique projects simultaneously, as your projects will start to queue on the server and bottleneck the analysis for other users.
If other members of your organization would like to look at a project you’ve been working on, they can view your projects by going to their own “My Projects” page and using the “User” filter criteria to see all projects under your name. If you’d like someone not currently in your Gridtwin organization to look at a project of yours, you may add them to your organization, and have them follow the same process.
After editing the project site or its point of interconnection, it’s important to run a new interconnection analysis so that your cost estimates and the project thumbnail can reflect the recent edits.
When conducting your parcel search, it’s important to first ensure all of your search parameters have been input in the appropriate units. If you have many specific parameters, using the search form may be more fruitful than the map, as it can utilize a larger variety of search criteria. While viewing results from the search form, your results can be prioritized based on different attributes in order to further streamline your search. A demonstration of using the search form to find parcels only within a certain geographic boundaries can be found in the 'How-to' guides.
In contrast, the map-based search feature may be useful to anyone who is prioritizing the placement and surrounding environment of prospective parcels, as you can instantly view your search results directly on the map. The map-based search will also be more efficient for anyone who is concerned with the geography of their parcel search but may be frequently changing or expanding that geography (while altering the search form’s geography parameter is possible, it is more time-consuiming than panning and refreshing the results of a map-based search).