Consulting services on behalf of electric and gas utilities, regulators, legislators, industry associations, government, and stakeholders regarding the adequacy and potential future expansion needs of a utility’s generation, transmission, distribution, and distributed resource assets and programs, namely a combination of information, databases, subject matter expertise, computer modeling, heuristics, and decision support to analyze and optimize potential utility-system resource supply and demand additions or modifications under different policy, load growth, technology, and other factors to inform resource prioritization, capital allocation, and business case development