Unicoq Consulting Inc.
The grid is changing. Your advisors should already know how.
Engineering & advisory for the distribution grid — grid modernization, AMI 2.0, DSO & DER, and the filings that fund them.
What we do
Grid Modernization
Modernization roadmaps, investment playbooks, and business cases grounded in how Ontario distributors actually get capital approved. We connect technology choices to system needs, and system needs to the filing.
Learn more →AMI 2.0
Full-lifecycle advisory for second-generation AMI: business case, requirements, RFP development, vendor evaluation, and network (FAN) strategy. We have run this process from workshop room to shortlist.
Learn more →DSO & DER Integration
DSO operating models, DERMS readiness, and local flexibility market design for distributors preparing to operate — not just host — distributed energy resources. We work from real implementations, not whitepapers.
Learn more →Power Systems Engineering
Interconnection procedures, protection and control reviews, and distribution planning studies. The same rigour we bring to strategy, applied at the level of relays, thresholds, and single-line diagrams.
Learn more →Rates & Regulatory
Cost-of-service and incremental capital support, DSP chapters, and customer consultation programs for Ontario distributors. We know what the OEB has accepted, and what it has struck out.
Learn more →Utility Data & Analytics
Reliability analytics, executive reporting, and document intelligence built directly on utility records. We turn outage logs, filings, and project archives into instruments executives actually use.
Learn more →Insights
All insights →Why regulators reject grid modernization spending
The pattern across rejected applications is consistent — and avoidable. It is almost never about the technology.
2026-07-05AMI 2.0 is a network decision, not a meter decision
The meter will be replaced twice in the life of the network that connects it. Buy the network first.
2026-07-01What a DSO actually does
Strip away the acronym and a distribution system operator has five jobs. Most LDCs already do two of them.
Independent, principal-led, and built for one client: the distribution utility.
Unicoq works exclusively on the distribution grid — the engineering, the operating models, and the regulatory record that pays for both.
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