Case Study: a major West Coast electric utility cuts corridor planning time by 77% with Continuum Industries' Optioneer

a major West Coast Electric Utility cuts route development time by 77% with Continuum Industries

A major West Coast electric utility faced a slow and costly transmission corridor planning process, which often took up to a year to propose an initial route and frequently encountered budget overruns and permitting issues. To address these challenges, the utility partnered with Continuum Industries to implement its Optioneer platform.

Continuum Industries' Optioneer solution rapidly generated and evaluated hundreds of routing scenarios against key criteria, enabling significant time and cost savings. The results included a 77% reduction in route development time, the discovery of corridor options that were 15% less expensive, and cost estimates that were within 10-15% of later validations.