Software for Power and Renewables

Control Capital Programs as Portfolios Scale

Stay ahead of a growing capital program of generation, storage, and grid projects as queue positions move, incentive rules change, and equipment prices climb. InEight brings scope, cost, schedule, and execution into one platform, so you can see how one change affects the portfolio before you commit capital.

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“InEight allows for greater clarity of forecasting, schedule risk management, change management, and overall management of contracts across many projects.”

Jenny Heit
Senior Project Controls, Renewable Energy Projects, CS Energy

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“With InEight, we’re going to have a better outlook on how we do our budgets, what’s affecting our budgets, the risk to our budgets, to our cash flows, to our forecasting. There are so many things that can happen in a project and when everyone is working in different things, it’s great to have a system that is quick to respond.”

Izabela Okon-Uribe
Director of Project Controls, Pattern Energy

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Akaysha Energy selected InEight as the centralized platform for managing project documentation across its Elaine BESS project. The solution supports collaboration and transparency, enables secure access to critical information, maintains version control, streamlines approvals, and keeps all stakeholders working from the most current data.

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“InEight enables us to integrate our preconstruction and project delivery processes into a single connected environment, increasing transparency, strengthening cost control, and driving more predictable outcomes for our clients.”

Alex Routledge
Chief Operating Officer, ROKPOWER

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Supporting Capital Projects Across the Asset Lifecycle

  • Wind, solar, and storage
  • Transmission, distribution, and substations
  • Grid hardening and resilience programs
  • Gas, thermal, and hydro generation
  • Modernization, retirement, and decommissioning

Why Power and Renewables Programs Outgrow the Processes That Run Them

Utilities and developers are running more projects, at larger scale, across more asset types than their original delivery processes were built for. Your processes and your project data must scale with the work.

As the Project Count Climbs, Portfolio Reporting Falls Behind

Load growth, new gas generation, renewables and storage, and grid hardening projects are all arriving at once, so the work runs as dozens of projects at the same time instead of a few big ones. Cost, schedule, and progress sit in separate spreadsheets and reports, so leadership sees a portfolio position that’s weeks old and still has to defend it to a regulator.

How InEight Gives Leadership One View Across the Portfolio

InEight tracks cost, schedule, change, and progress against a common cost structure on every project, including contractor-supplied data, so portfolio reports come straight from the project records rather than a separate roll-up.

Policy Deadlines Push Construction Ahead of Design

Incentive windows and trade rules set fixed dates for starting construction and placing assets in service. Teams start construction before design and pricing are final, so projects start from a poorly defined baseline and changes pile up. Fewer contractors are willing to carry the resulting exposure in a fixed-price contract, so more of it stays with the owner.

How InEight Ties Design Changes to the Budget and Forecast

InEight links each change to its supporting design documents and carries approved changes into the budget and forecast, so every design change shows up in the forecast as soon as it’s approved.

Grid Access and Outage Windows Decide the In-Service Date

Queue position decides when new generation and storage can energize, and outage windows decide when work on an existing plant or line can happen. Both are settled outside the project, and each shift reshapes crews, long-lead orders, and the projects queued behind them.

How InEight Shows What a Moved Date Costs Before Resequencing

InEight lets you model a new date as a what-if schedule, run schedule risk analysis on the moved date, and see which contracts and forecasts the change affects before you resequence the work.

Connected Project Data for More Predictable Power and Renewables Delivery

The InEight Platform spans four areas: Project Controls for cost, contracts, change, and progress; Pricing and Scheduling for estimates and schedules; Project Information Management for documents and models; and Construction Intelligence for portfolio analytics and reporting. Power and renewables organizations use them together for one view of cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance across projects, regions, and delivery partners.
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Gain Control Over the Pressures You Can’t Eliminate

A permitting delay, a stretched workforce, or a transformer that ships a year late can push back an in-service date. You can’t stop them, but you can see their impact on the plan, the forecast, and the rest of the portfolio sooner, while there’s still time to act.

Get Ahead of Permitting and Location Approvals

Environmental reviews, easements, and local opposition can delay a project for a year or more before ground is even broken. Connecting the schedule to the forecast shows what each delay adds to project cost, so teams can adjust the budget before committing more capital.

Cover More Projects with the Same Team

Many generators have not built a major asset in decades, and now there are more projects than people to run them. Standard cost structures and project templates let teams set up their processes once and apply them to each new project instead of starting from scratch.

See Which Work Slips When a Long-Lead Delivery Moves

Transformers, turbines, and high-voltage equipment carry years-long lead times, and getting them to site often means building roads, port works, and grid connections first. Linking each delivery to the schedule shows its dependencies, so teams can resequence before a late delivery stalls the project.

Frequently asked questions about power and renewables capital projects

Why are power and renewables capital projects difficult to control?

Power and renewables capital projects are difficult to control because organizations are running more projects at once than their processes were built for, and the most important dates are set outside their control. Queue position, permitting, and outage windows decide when construction starts and when an asset can earn revenue, and one delay moves crews, equipment, and capital across the rest of the portfolio. InEight connects cost, schedule, risk, and change data so teams can see how a delay affects other projects and update forecasts earlier.

How can utilities and developers maintain visibility across contractors, regions, and projects?

Utilities and developers maintain visibility by setting the same cost structures, scheduling standards, and reporting requirements for every delivery partner, ideally before contracts are awarded. Setting standards early matters more as delivery models such as alliance and cost-reimbursable contracts shift risk back to the owner. InEight brings contractor and project data into one environment, so leaders can compare performance and see total exposure without waiting on separate reports.

How can connected project data improve future power and renewables capital decisions?

Connected project data improves future decisions by creating a record of estimates, schedules, changes, risks, and actual outcomes. Teams can use the historical data to price repeatable projects like substations and storage sites, plan upgrades years later, and scope decommissioning. InEight keeps the history in one place, so each new decision starts from what happened on earlier projects instead of assumptions.

How can utilities show capital spending was prudent?

Utilities show capital spending was prudent by documenting that each decision was reasonable based on the information available at the time, which regulators require before costs can be recovered from ratepayers. The documentation usually includes the estimate basis, the schedule at the time, the risks identified, and each approved change along with who approved it. InEight keeps these records in one connected system as the project runs, so teams don’t have to rebuild them from old reports during a rate review.

How does InEight support power and renewables capital programs?

InEight supports power and renewables capital programs by connecting project controls, project information management, pricing and scheduling, and construction intelligence in one platform. Owners can track contractor data against a common cost structure, model a moved in-service date as a what-if schedule, and tie each change to its design documents and forecast.

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