Energy infrastructure · PJM region
Aging electrical infrastructure, modernized with project-management discipline.
ModernGrid Group brings utility-grade program governance to the grid's hardest work — capital-program advisory, battery-storage commissioning intelligence, and the software backbone that keeps every commitment visible until the system is in service.
What we do
Three connected practices, one operating discipline — every engagement is run against a tracked, evidence-backed project record.
CxIntel — Commissioning Intelligence
AI project-intelligence software for BESS and energy commissioning teams: field capture, vendor accountability ledgers, auto-built punch lists, ISD-risk scoring, and turnover evidence packages.
cxintel.moderngridgroup.com →Capital-Program Advisory
Independent owner's-representative and PMO services for utility capital programs — program health assessments, schedule and contractor oversight, and interim project leadership.
Request an assessment →LED Streetlighting
LED conversions of aging high-pressure-sodium and mercury-vapor systems — plus new streetlight and area-lighting installations — for municipalities, colleges, and office complexes.
streetlighting.moderngridgroup.com →Infrastructure Delivery
Distribution and grid-modernization construction management for municipalities and cooperatives — organized, documented, and delivered with the same PMO backbone.
Flagship product
CxIntel: every commitment, out of the transcripts, into one ledger.
Commissioning projects generate critical information in calls, emails, and walkdowns — and almost none of it gets captured. CxIntel is the intelligence layer over that communication.
- Consent-enforced field recording with speaker-labeled transcripts
- Vendor accountability ledger with slip detection and scorecards
- Punch lists that write themselves from walkdown recordings
- ISD-risk score — one explainable number per project, trended daily
- Executive updates and turnover packages generated in minutes
Infrastructure delivery · SE Pennsylvania & PJM region
LED streetlighting: convert the old stock, light the new.
Thousands of high-pressure-sodium and mercury-vapor streetlights in our region are past their design life — dim, orange, expensive to run, and increasingly impossible to maintain. ModernGrid converts them to LED and designs new lighting for growing campuses and developments, led by leadership experience managing utility-scale LED conversion programs.
Lighting Audit & Conversion Roadmap
Field inventory of every fixture — wattage, technology, pole, and condition — mapped and matched to LED equivalents, with a savings analysis and a phased conversion plan your board or council can act on.
Request an audit →Owner's-Rep & Program Management
We run the conversion on your behalf: fixture specifications, contractor procurement, construction oversight, utility coordination, and rebate and closeout paperwork — every commitment tracked to done.
Talk through a program →Turnkey Conversion
Full delivery of the conversion — fixtures, crews, traffic control, disposal and recycling of legacy lamps — managed end to end under the same evidence-backed PMO discipline as everything we do.
Scope a conversion →New Streetlight & Area Lighting
Photometric design and installation of net-new lighting for developments, college campuses, office complexes, and parking areas — dark-sky-conscious, uniform, and built to be maintainable.
Start a design →Safer streets, visibly
Lighting is a public-safety asset first. LED gets you light you can actually see by:
- True color at night. LED renders color at CRI 70+ — drivers and pedestrians can distinguish a person from a shadow. HPS renders at CRI ~25, in monochrome orange.
- Instant on, instant restrike. After a power blink, HPS lamps go dark for 5–15 minutes while they cool and restrike. LED is back at full output immediately.
- Uniform coverage, fewer dark spots. Photometric layouts put light on the road and sidewalk instead of hot spots under poles and shadows between them.
- Dark-sky and glare control. Full-cutoff fixtures, warmer color-temperature options, and house-side shields keep light where it belongs — off bedroom windows and out of the night sky.
- Fewer outages. LED fixtures are rated to ~100,000 hours versus roughly 24,000 for an HPS lamp — fewer dark lights, fewer night patrols, fewer truck rolls.
- Mercury vapor is end-of-life. Federal law ended manufacture of mercury-vapor ballasts in 2008. Every MV fixture still in service is running on a shrinking parts supply.
The economics do the convincing
Typical conversions cut lighting energy 40–65%, and the maintenance savings are often just as large.
| Existing fixture | Typical LED replacement | Energy cut |
|---|---|---|
| 175 W mercury vapor | 40–60 W | ~70% |
| 100 W HPS | 40–55 W | ~60% |
| 150 W HPS | 60–80 W | ~60% |
| 250 W HPS | 90–120 W | ~60% |
| 400 W HPS | 130–180 W | ~60% |
Existing wattages understate the real load — ballast losses add 15–25%. Typical equivalents shown; final selections come from a photometric design, not a rule of thumb.
- 15–20 year fixture service life — group relamping cycles disappear
- Pennsylvania Act 129 utility rebates and regional joint-procurement programs can offset a meaningful share of project cost
- Payback periods commonly land in the 4–8 year range on energy and maintenance alone
Who owns your lights changes everything
It's the first question in every conversion conversation — and we've worked both sides of it.
You own the fixtures
Municipalities, colleges, and office complexes that own their lighting keep every dollar of savings. The conversion is a straightforward capital project: audit, convert, and watch the energy line item drop from the first bill.
The utility owns the fixtures
Under flat-rate lighting tariffs, converting doesn't automatically lower your bill — the savings live in the tariff, not the meter. We help you navigate the real options: petitioning for an LED rate, negotiating the utility's conversion schedule, or evaluating a system purchase.
How we work
The same rules apply to our software, our advisory work, and eventually our crews.
Evidence over opinion
Status comes from the project record — commitments, punch items, test results — not from memory or optimism.
Accountability by name
Every deliverable has an owner and a date. Slips surface when they happen, not at the next monthly meeting.
The in-service date is the goal
Every tool and every engagement is oriented to one question: is this project going to be in service on time?
Nothing launches before it's proven
We productize only what we've run on real work. Practice first, product second.
Contact
Running a battery-storage project, a utility capital program, or a streetlight system still stuck in the sodium era? Start a conversation.