The Turlock Irrigation District (TID) is the first of four publicly-owned irrigation districts in California. TID provides electric retail energy directly to homes, farms, and businesses throughout California’s Central Valley. The TID 2023 Integrated Resource Plan was based on the irrigation district’s core values: reliability, affordability, stewardship, safety, quality workforce, customer focus, local control, and vision.

Their IRP considered current renewable and zero-carbon energy technologies in its capacity expansion plan while enabling TID to capitalize on well-grounded emerging technologies. As such, the IRP calls for integrating wind, solar, geothermal, and battery energy storage systems (BESS) through 2030 to comply with California renewable energy targets.

Working with TID and Ascend analysts, Solari designed, researched, and wrote a focused IRP centered on the irrigation district’s specific, stated needs. The IRP discussed the resource planning, generation, forecasting, transmission and distribution, and local air quality inputs, principles, and drivers that formed the foundation of the planning analysis and results. The IRP concluded with capacity expansion and customer-focused action plans that meet all local and California energy requirements.