N-1 Connection Study Agent

A developer with a 50 MW battery and a candidate bus can ask a general-purpose assistant what a connection study involves, which contingencies a planner will run and roughly what the network operator will want to see, and the answer now comes back good enough that the first meeting no longer needs a consultant to explain the method. The trap for the consulting firm is to answer that with a model that writes the study report faster while the engineer still keys the injection into a desktop tool by hand. The slow part was never the prose; it was the distance between a question asked in one sentence and a load flow somebody can check.

The design I would build closes that distance and leaves the engineer's signature where it was. An agent reads the planner's question, loads the network model into its own session, runs the base case, clones a variant so nothing touches the original, sets the battery's export on a generator that already sits at the bus, and runs security analysis over every single-line outage. It lists what overloads and which buses leave their voltage band, draws the substation, and hands over a Python script for the engineer to rerun. A second model writes that script, so the engineer reads it before trusting a line of it. Before the agent reports 'no overloads' it checks that the model carries current limits at all; on the IEEE 14-bus case it does not, so zero violations there means nothing, and it says so.

One five-year strategy this could serve, offered as a sketch rather than a plan, sells answered questions instead of study hours. Expose the screening run to the developer's own tools under rules the firm sets, keep every variant, script and signed result as a record the next query can start from, and charge for the signature on the study rather than for the typing that led to it. The developer's assistant will keep asking. Someone still has to sign.