Services

From concept to market.

01 Build

02 Connect

03 Market

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Energy Expertise

ZGlobal provides energy engineering + economics all in one place.

Our team includes the pioneers who launched the country’s first wholesale electricity market. That gives us first-hand knowledge, not just theoretical expertise.

We are your link to CAISO and ERCOT energy marketplaces.

The Expertise Behind Your Energy

What We Do

Technical depth. Commercial understanding.
Support at every stage.

ZGlobal offers start-to-finish infrastructure development, and anything in between. Our services include planning, engineering, feasibility, cost and risk-benefit, and permitting. We handle pre- and post-construction and can operate and maintain as well.

Services are tailored to help clients maximize profits while enhancing reliability benefits to the grid. We understand engineering principles and financial realities, and our multi-disciplined team is here to help generation and transmission builders every step of the way.

Project Design and Implementation

  • Detailed electrical engineering and physical layouts
  • Environmental studies and permitting
  • System impact and facility studies
  • Project costs and perform financial analysis

Asset Management

  • Project engineering, procurement and construction
  • 24/7 operations and maintenance support services
  • Performance guarantees
  • Compliance with power purchase agreements, contracts and operating standards
  • Negotiations with off-takers, transmission operators and balancing authorities

Consider us your “technical quarterback” as you navigate the complexities of connecting new generation or energy storage projects to the grid. ZGlobal helps developers select the best point of interconnection and performs preliminary interconnection studies, transmission planning and deliverability analysis. In a nutshell, we manage the interconnection process with the local utility or independent system operator by:

  • Reviewing potential points of interconnection and grid constraints
  • Identifying potential network upgrades, interconnection costs and schedule impacts
  • Assessing how study results affect project design, economics and development strategy

ZGlobal helps generators, utilities, marketers and community choice aggregators (CCAs) participate successfully in wholesale electricity markets. As a scheduling coordinator, ZGlobal provides the market operations, forecasting, bidding, scheduling and settlement support clients need to manage their energy portfolios and meet their market and contractual obligations.

Our experienced team provides 24/7 real-time operational support, helping clients adapt to changing market conditions, manage market exposure and respond to operational requirements.

Services include

  • Load and energy forecasting to support market and operational decisions
  • Market bids and schedules for wholesale energy markets
  • 24/7 real-time operational support
  • Settlement review and validation to identify discrepancies and potential issues
  • Market reporting and performance analysis
  • Support for contract and market obligations
  • Analysis of bidding strategies and energy bid optimization
  • Monitoring market exposure and operational risk and developing strategies for:
  • Congestion revenue rights (CRR) allocation and auction
  • Convergence bidding

From Possibility to Performance

Your energy.
Our end-to-end expertise.

One connected team to help you build,
connect and market your power.

01 / Development

Build

ZGlobal turns innovative concepts into profit-making ventures.

02 / Interconnection

Connect

ZGlobal navigates the path to successful, reliable grid interconnection.

03 / Market Operations

Market

ZGlobal combines deep energy market expertise with around-the-clock operational support

01 Build

Bringing New Energy to Market

We assist owners, investors, utilities and other energy companies in the development and delivery of new energy including wind, solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS). We also support investors building transmission lines to get that energy into the market.

Our team supports generation and transmission projects across the full development and delivery lifecycle, from early-stage feasibility studies and financial evaluation through engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning. We also coordinate the technical, commercial and regulatory work required to move projects from concept toward successful operation.

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02 Connect

Bringing New Energy to Market

New power projects are critically needed but equally important is ensuring transmission access that gets that power to where it is needed. We facilitate interconnection requests in organized electricity markets, including the California ISO as well as throughout the Western Interconnection.

Our team helps clients understand the technical, commercial and regulatory requirements for connecting a generator to the grid. We work closely with project teams throughout the interconnection process, from early evaluation through key study milestones and project decisions.

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03 Market

Navigating Change. Evaluating Opportunity.

Our team helps clients understand the nuances of today’s evolving electricity markets while maintaining the discipline, confidentiality and performance standards required to thrive in the market.

Opportunities are expanding. We are here to help determine the benefits of participating in:

WEIM

Western Energy Imbalance Market

Sharing and economically dispatching resources across the West in real time.

EDAM

Extended Day-Ahead Market

Helping clients evaluate participation in the West’s expanding day-ahead market.

Scheduling Coordinator

As a scheduling coordinator, we provide load forecasting, bidding, scheduling, bid optimization and congestion revenue rights management for utilities and community choice aggregators (CCAs). We also provide clients with real-time operational support, settlement review as well as market reporting. Our experienced team works to help clients to meet their contract obligations, manage their market exposure with strict rules of confidentiality, auditing and performance.

All together, we manage round-the-clock energy delivery to 7 million Californians in 58 cities and 8 counties.

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Always on to keep energy moving.

Round-the-clock energy delivery,
backed by experienced market professionals.

Californians served
Cities across California
Counties connected
Major energy markets

Let’s move your energy forward

What’s your next possibility?

Have a new project, a complex connection, or a market opportunity? Let’s talk.

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