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RRAD PowerFlow Studio is ready for demos & pilots — all 10 modules are live

October 23rd, 2025 – Huntsvil, Alabama

We’re excited to announce that RRAD PowerFlow Studio is now feature-complete and available for live demos, pilots, and early deployments. Built for electric utilities that want modern engineering analytics without vendor lock-in, PowerFlow Studio runs natively in QGIS with a PostGIS (or GeoPackage) backend—and it now ships with all ten modules ready to work on real feeders.

What’s included (10 modules)

Load Flow — Per-phase and per-section views, live sorting, worst-N spotlight, pick-to-zoom. Validate feeder data quality in minutes and export results (CSV/GeoPackage).

Coordination Workbench — GIS-aware TCC studio: compute min/max 3φ & SLG fault currents, stack curves, flag violations, and export pass/fail PDF packs. Pick devices from map or list and overlay upstream/downstream curves.

Schematic Studio — One-click single-line diagrams from GIS. Auto-layout with device icons and overlays (voltage/current/kVA). Syncs with the map; exports crisp SVG/PDF.

Voltage Map — Instant, styled copies of the primary with Vpu,min and % drop baked into the symbology. Publish QA maps fast; spot regulator coverage gaps and long weak laterals.

Transformer Loading & Risk — Roll up kW/kvar by phase with diversity; flag overloads, duty-cycle risk, and missing metadata. Leaderboards for most-stressed transformers with pick-to-zoom.

Protection Check — Available fault vs device duty; simple coordination flags and tap-through checks. Triage of mis-ordered fuses/reclosers and reversed TCC order.

Network Tracer — Upstream/downstream tracing on the primary for quick isolation and switching “what-ifs.” Total length, kVA, customer counts; islands and ties highlighted. Export trace to layer or CSV.

Hosting Capacity — Per-segment kW headroom to voltage/thermal limits with “what-if” sliders. Rank candidate PV locations by upgrade-cost avoidance and export siting maps.

Phase Imbalance & Re-phase Adviser — Detect 3-phase current imbalance and suggest minimal phase swaps that reduce losses and neutral current—often without new hardware.

Fault Detective — Rapid outage & fault triage from GIS context: suspect spans, distance-to-fault estimates, and likely protective-device trips. Export a crew-ready list with notes.

Founding Utility / Early Adopter program

We’re launching a Founding Utility / Early Adopter program for the first cohort of utilities that come on board. Benefits include:

Priority influence over the roadmap and module refinements.
White-glove onboarding and data-quality tune-ups.
Pilot credits & preferred pricing for production rollout.
Co-branded case study and training for field and engineering teams.
Migration guidance from legacy environments (including data checks and export packs).

Works alongside your current Esri stack

Not ready to leave Esri? No problem. PowerFlow Studio is vendor-neutral and can be introduced alongside existing ArcGIS deployments:

Read/write PostGIS while consuming data exported from ArcGIS (feature services, CSV/GeoPackage, and scheduled extracts).
Use it as an engineering workbench that complements your current ArcGIS web maps and dashboards.
When/if you’re ready, we’ll help you plan a phased transition to an open stack—without disrupting operations.

See it in action

We’re booking 45-minute live demos now and scheduling targeted pilots (single feeder or district) that show value within days.

Book a demo / join the Early Adopter cohort:
drogers@rradgeo.com
Locally owned & operated in Huntsville, Alabama

RRAD PowerFlow Studio: open, fast, and field-proven analytics for electric utilities—without lock-in.

RRAD PowerFlow Studio set to bring live engineering analytics to electric utilities daily GIS

August 23rd, 2025 – Huntsvil, Alabama

RRAD PowerFlow Studio is coming soon. It lives in the same GIS editing environment utilities use and edit every day, so when you change the distribution model you can rerun engineering analysis instantly. No exports. No silos. No waiting. Utilities get faster planning, protection checks, and reliability insight right on the live grid.

RRAD adapts to your data and schema, not the other way around. You keep your established workflows and start analyzing now.

Why utilities are wanting to be able to move beyond legacy engineering analytics platforms and legacy GIS vendor lock in.
For small and medium sized utilities, five pain points stand out:

High total cost of ownership from platform, seat, server, and extension fees.
Expensive data conversions and remodeling just to fit a vendor schema before studies can run.
Integration friction due to proprietary formats and closed or gated APIs.
Operational delays when analysis requires exporting the model out of GIS and importing results back in.
Price and policy risk from changing licenses, audits, and forced upgrades.

RRAD PowerFlow Studio removes these barriers by running analytics inside your everyday GIS and adjusting to your data as it exists today. If you are ready to get away from cumbersome and expensive legacy GIS lock in, ask RRAD.

Stay tuned for the launch announcement.

Neal Technology Chooses RRAD’s Open-Source GIS Platform for All Future Projects

August 14th, 2025 – Scottsboro, Alabama

RRAD Geospatial Group is proud to announce that Neal Technology, a leading provider of engineering, construction, and technical services for the telecommunications industry and other utility sectors, will begin using RRAD’s open-source geospatial technology stack as the foundation for all new projects going forward.

Neal Technology, known for delivering innovative and cost-effective broadband, electric, and utility infrastructure solutions, has built its reputation on efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability. By adopting RRAD’s open-source GIS architecture—built on technologies like QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, QField, and OpenLayers—Neal Technology gains the flexibility of a fully vendor-neutral platform, eliminating costly proprietary licensing fees while unlocking enterprise-grade capabilities for planning, design, field data collection, and asset management.

“Our open-source approach puts the control back in the client’s hands,” said Daniel Rogers, CTO of RRAD Geospatial Group. “Neal Technology’s decision to implement RRAD’s platform from the ground up is a major endorsement of the scalability and efficiency we’ve built into our system.”

The partnership will enable Neal Technology to:

Streamline field-to-office data workflows for fiber, electric, and utility design projects
Integrate seamlessly with existing asset management and operational systems
Leverage customizable, real-time mapping solutions without vendor lock-in
Reduce project costs while maintaining the highest data accuracy and reliability

This move further solidifies RRAD Geospatial Group’s position as a leader in open-source GIS for utilities, broadband, and infrastructure projects, and reinforces Neal Technology’s commitment to innovation and client value.

For more information about Neal Technology, visit www.nealtechnology.com.
To learn more about RRAD’s open-source GIS solutions, contact drogers@rradgeo.com.

North Alabama Electric Cooperative Launches Historical Outage Tracking with RRAD

July 11th, 2025 – Stevenson, Alabama

North Alabama Electric Cooperative has implemented RRAD’s Historical Outage Tracker, a powerful analytics platform that helps visualize outage patterns, weather correlations, and feeder-level impacts across multiple years. Built on a flexible ESRI or open-source stack, the tool supports data-driven decisions for grid investment, reliability reporting, and outage forecasting.

Arab Electric Pilots Open-Source GIS Platform

July 2025 – Arab, Alabama

In a first-of-its-kind deployment, Arab Electric has partnered with RRAD Geospatial Group to stand up a parallel, fully open-source GIS system based on QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, and QField. The system mirrors the utility’s existing ESRI deployment and supports editing, inspections, and viewer access — without any licensing costs.

This trial project will help Arab Electric evaluate long-term cost savings, feature parity, and operational fit before expanding the platform utility-wide.

"It's fast, responsive, and completely under our control. This is what modern GIS should look like.”
Seth Selby— Assistant Manager, Arab Electric

Arab Electric Launches Historical Outage Tracking with RRAD

May 2025 – Arab, Alabama

Arab Electric Cooperative has implemented RRAD’s Historical Outage Tracker, a powerful analytics platform that helps visualize outage patterns, weather correlations, and feeder-level impacts across multiple years. Built on a flexible ESRI or open-source stack, the tool supports data-driven decisions for grid investment, reliability reporting, and outage forecasting.

Real-Time Outage Viewer Now Live for Arab Electric and North Alabama Electric

May 2023 – Arab, Alabama - Stevenson, Alabama

Arab Electric Cooperative and North Alabama Electric Cooperative now provides two versions of RRAD’s Outage Viewer: an internal dispatch tool for crew coordination and switching, and a public-facing map that shows active outages and counts in near real-time, along with weather radar and weather watch/warning real-time overlays. Both tools are mobile-friendly, integrate with OMS and AMI, and reduce call center load during events.