The modern, renewable energy-rich power grid is an increasingly complicated machine to model. Maybe technology born of the massively complicated world of designing computer chips can help. That’s the genesis of Pearl Street Technologies’ approach to analyzing the complexities of power flows and planning parameters for the transmission grid. Its Suite of Unified Grid Analyses with Renewables (SUGAR) software platform can take minutes to find solutions to highly complex problems that can take traditional modeling methods weeks to derive—or, fail to derive at all.