Electric Utilities
Solutions For Electric Transmission And Distribution
Strengthen your safety and integrity of your transmission and distribution systems. Enjoy easy supply chain communication anytime, anywhere. Improve asset health, boost system performance, and ensure unwavering integrity and dependability with valuable insights.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Speed up design with a unified environment, cutting costs, simplifying workflows, automating projects, reducing risks, and ensuring code compliance for a safer, reliable grid.
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Empower People with Data-Centric Workflows
Engineer and Design Intelligently
Digital delivery improves design efficiency with a complete representation of the design intent. Assess and understand existing conditions, and understand the financial impact.
Collaborate Effectively
Collaborate more effectively across all project stakeholders. Trust that detailed records of all design and engineering activities are maintained. Make better decisions with easy access to the right information.
Maximize Asset Performance
Improve asset performance and work smarter with digital inspections and maintenance ensuring accurate reporting and compliance.
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Transmission and Distribution Planning
Integrated planning and analysis can help you make data-driven decisions that support storm hardening, risk mitigation, decentralized energy, and other modernization to better support future demand.
Plan for Modernization, Storms, or to Mitigate Wildfire Risks
Increase your overhead telecommunications and distribution system integrity. Ensure reliable service, reduce safety concerns, and optimize overhead financial investments.
Visualize and Analyze Distribution Networks
Integrate power systems analysis with geographic information system (GIS) data. Evaluate distribution grid performance models for accurate forecasting.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s planning software provides effective management of all overhead infrastructure data and enables enhanced collaboration and accelerated project delivery.
Overhead Analysis and Planning
Manage all overhead line data in a single location for easily distributing to all departments and contractors. Integrate all functions necessary for efficient and effective overhead power line design and analysis for new or existing projects including terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, drafting, and construction documentation.
Grid Infrastructure Planning
Streamline the planning process and gain powerful insights into your transmission and distribution assets with a single location for your grid data. Easily share individual assets or an entire project portfolio with necessary stakeholders and communicate in real-time. Integrate with other enterprise systems for additional context and enhanced reporting.
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Transmission and Distribution Design
Prepare your transmission and distribution systems to meet the demands for the next decade and beyond. This might require an evolution across teams, workflows, and technology to become a data-centric environment where decisions better support the needs of energy transition and address the increasing energy demand.
Integrate Transmission Overhead Power Line Design Processes
Save time associated with sharing simple to overly complex transmission projects with access to accurate structure usage, line clearances, vegetation clearances, thermal line ratings, plan and profile sheets, sag tension reports, staking data, construction documents managing all overhead line data in a single location for easy distribution to all departments and contractors regardless of location.
Improve Efficiency and Accuracy with 3D Substations
Reduce design time by 30% with reality modeling and intelligent design using the latest engineering rules and standards. With a single view of physical design and electric protection and controls you get improved accuracy, enhanced collaboration, faster turnaround times, and reduced costs.
Eliminate Overdesign, Reduce Capital Expenses, and Streamline Distribution Design
Collect, model, and optimize overhead distribution assets, to help increase system integrity, ensure reliable service, and reduce safety concerns. You can align projects with the latest structural codes and regulatory compliance while providing valuable insights into a project’s workflow.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s integrated analysis and design helps utilities ensure the use of the latest codes and regulatory compliance, reduces the complexity of designing electrical systems using current engineering rules and standards, and integrates with ERP to ensure optimized engineering design and system cost.
Transmission Systems Design
Manage all overhead line data in a single location to easily distribute to all departments and contractors.
Integrate all functions necessary for efficient and effective overhead power line design and analysis for new or existing projects including terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, drafting, and construction documentation.Substation Physical Design and Electric Protection and Controls
Create intelligent 3D substation models from a database of intelligent objects. You can use the model to seed, create, link, and maintain consistency across 2D drawings, electrical schematics, and reports. And you can speed project collaboration and coordination and minimize errors/rework with linked and cross-referenced 3D layouts and electrical drawings.
Distribution Overhead Design
Assess distribution vulnerability and prioritize where to improve or replace distribution assets, and then accurately estimate costs. Improve engineering, coordination, efficiency, and clarity of joint use poles/pole attachments.
“Otto and the PLS team have created the standard for efficiency and software-enablement of the indispensable work of power transmission engineers. However, the accelerated pace of the global energy transition creates a need for further expansion of and innovation in the grid. We’re confident Bentley Systems can provide the right surrounding constellation to expand Power Line Systems toward full grid digital twins.”
– Ashu Agrawal, a managing director at TA Associates and Power Line Systems - Construction
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Transmission and Distribution Construction
From field to office – increase the visibility, predictability, and productivity of your construction projects so you can deliver winning projects – from design to pre-bid to project execution and handoff.
courtesy of Shijiazhuang
Improve Construction Planning
Resolve substation construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Manage project schedule versus performance, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
courtesy of National Grid
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with supply chain and stakeholders to reduce the risk of delays. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Manage Construction in One Place
Plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably. Visualize live construction information in 2D, 3D, and 4D so that you can better track project performance and make better and faster data-driven decisions.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley offers a complete construction management solution to help firms manage planning, scheduling, resources, contracts, budgets, and execution of construction projects. The solution enables construction firms to improve the use of their project data to optimize decision-making, resources, and profitability throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Construction Software
Get all your construction management in one place, so that you can plan and better manage people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably.
"Having a complete 3D model at the time of constructability review allows us to measure electrical and physical clearance in real time, which helps eliminate costly conflicts during construction phases. With today’s increasing substation complexity and decreasing substation footprint, having a 3D model is a must."
– Ralph Hansen, Construction Supervisor – Pacific Gas and Electric Company - Operations
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Transmission and Distribution Operations and Maintenance
Ensure grid reliability through proactive asset lifecycle management. Help your maintenance teams work smarter with digital inspections to ensure accurate reporting and compliance, improve safety, and create savings in inspections and maintenance.
courtesy of EPCOR
Improve Asset Performance
Asset health monitoring helps improve performance and asset life, and helps utilities meet their reporting requirements. Asset health monitoring helps to identify risk and schedule maintenance programs to minimize downtime and failures and extend the life of your assets. Use it to reduce risk and ensure predictable production.
courtesy of Essential Energy
Inspect Assets Digitally
Minimize time spent on location, improve worker safety, and reduce overall cost of inspection programs. You can continuously capture utility assets and federate this information with other operation, asset, and engineering data.
Continuously Monitor Assets
Get the right information at the right time for proactive risk management, safety, and predictive maintenance applications. You can observe changes in the surroundings over time helping to predict potential future behaviors.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s asset performance software provides a set of applications for optimizing utility assets. Used by maintenance engineers, inspectors, and asset managers, our solutions leverage the data organizations own to mitigate risk, increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Asset Performance Software
Ensure predictability with reliability strategy and risk-based analysis, data management, and decision support. And optimize maintenance strategies for safety and compliance.
Monitoring and Inspection Software
Provide easier access to information on hard-to-inspect or far away locations. And with the use of other solutions such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, you can build a digital twin that automatically detects issues.
Business Intelligence Software
Visualize data from multiple third-party systems, including point cloud data, imagery, texture 3D mesh, and traditional GIS and engineering data to develop a comprehensive view for analysis and action.
“Our company evaluated other software programs and found SPIDA to be our best choice on a long list of relatively long business requirements. SPIDA integrated well with our primary record and data keeping program.”
– A senior specialist Transmission Engineering Southern California Edison
Transmission and Distribution Planning
Integrated planning and analysis can help you make data-driven decisions that support storm hardening, risk mitigation, decentralized energy, and other modernization to better support future demand.
Plan for Modernization, Storms, or to Mitigate Wildfire Risks
Increase your overhead telecommunications and distribution system integrity. Ensure reliable service, reduce safety concerns, and optimize overhead financial investments.
Visualize and Analyze Distribution Networks
Integrate power systems analysis with geographic information system (GIS) data. Evaluate distribution grid performance models for accurate forecasting.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s planning software provides effective management of all overhead infrastructure data and enables enhanced collaboration and accelerated project delivery.
Overhead Analysis and Planning
Manage all overhead line data in a single location for easily distributing to all departments and contractors. Integrate all functions necessary for efficient and effective overhead power line design and analysis for new or existing projects including terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, drafting, and construction documentation.
Grid Infrastructure Planning
Streamline the planning process and gain powerful insights into your transmission and distribution assets with a single location for your grid data. Easily share individual assets or an entire project portfolio with necessary stakeholders and communicate in real-time. Integrate with other enterprise systems for additional context and enhanced reporting.
Transmission and Distribution Design
Prepare your transmission and distribution systems to meet the demands for the next decade and beyond. This might require an evolution across teams, workflows, and technology to become a data-centric environment where decisions better support the needs of energy transition and address the increasing energy demand.
Integrate Transmission Overhead Power Line Design Processes
Save time associated with sharing simple to overly complex transmission projects with access to accurate structure usage, line clearances, vegetation clearances, thermal line ratings, plan and profile sheets, sag tension reports, staking data, construction documents managing all overhead line data in a single location for easy distribution to all departments and contractors regardless of location.
Improve Efficiency and Accuracy with 3D Substations
Reduce design time by 30% with reality modeling and intelligent design using the latest engineering rules and standards. With a single view of physical design and electric protection and controls you get improved accuracy, enhanced collaboration, faster turnaround times, and reduced costs.
Eliminate Overdesign, Reduce Capital Expenses, and Streamline Distribution Design
Collect, model, and optimize overhead distribution assets, to help increase system integrity, ensure reliable service, and reduce safety concerns. You can align projects with the latest structural codes and regulatory compliance while providing valuable insights into a project’s workflow.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s integrated analysis and design helps utilities ensure the use of the latest codes and regulatory compliance, reduces the complexity of designing electrical systems using current engineering rules and standards, and integrates with ERP to ensure optimized engineering design and system cost.
Transmission Systems Design
Manage all overhead line data in a single location to easily distribute to all departments and contractors.
Integrate all functions necessary for efficient and effective overhead power line design and analysis for new or existing projects including terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, drafting, and construction documentation.
Substation Physical Design and Electric Protection and Controls
Create intelligent 3D substation models from a database of intelligent objects. You can use the model to seed, create, link, and maintain consistency across 2D drawings, electrical schematics, and reports. And you can speed project collaboration and coordination and minimize errors/rework with linked and cross-referenced 3D layouts and electrical drawings.
Distribution Overhead Design
Assess distribution vulnerability and prioritize where to improve or replace distribution assets, and then accurately estimate costs. Improve engineering, coordination, efficiency, and clarity of joint use poles/pole attachments.
“Otto and the PLS team have created the standard for efficiency and software-enablement of the indispensable work of power transmission engineers. However, the accelerated pace of the global energy transition creates a need for further expansion of and innovation in the grid. We’re confident Bentley Systems can provide the right surrounding constellation to expand Power Line Systems toward full grid digital twins.”
Transmission and Distribution Construction
From field to office – increase the visibility, predictability, and productivity of your construction projects so you can deliver winning projects – from design to pre-bid to project execution and handoff.
courtesy of Shijiazhuang
Improve Construction Planning
Resolve substation construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Manage project schedule versus performance, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
courtesy of National Grid
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with supply chain and stakeholders to reduce the risk of delays. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Manage Construction in One Place
Plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably. Visualize live construction information in 2D, 3D, and 4D so that you can better track project performance and make better and faster data-driven decisions.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley offers a complete construction management solution to help firms manage planning, scheduling, resources, contracts, budgets, and execution of construction projects. The solution enables construction firms to improve the use of their project data to optimize decision-making, resources, and profitability throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Construction Software
Get all your construction management in one place, so that you can plan and better manage people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably.
"Having a complete 3D model at the time of constructability review allows us to measure electrical and physical clearance in real time, which helps eliminate costly conflicts during construction phases. With today’s increasing substation complexity and decreasing substation footprint, having a 3D model is a must."
Transmission and Distribution Operations and Maintenance
Ensure grid reliability through proactive asset lifecycle management. Help your maintenance teams work smarter with digital inspections to ensure accurate reporting and compliance, improve safety, and create savings in inspections and maintenance.
courtesy of EPCOR
Improve Asset Performance
Asset health monitoring helps improve performance and asset life, and helps utilities meet their reporting requirements. Asset health monitoring helps to identify risk and schedule maintenance programs to minimize downtime and failures and extend the life of your assets. Use it to reduce risk and ensure predictable production.
courtesy of Essential Energy
Inspect Assets Digitally
Minimize time spent on location, improve worker safety, and reduce overall cost of inspection programs. You can continuously capture utility assets and federate this information with other operation, asset, and engineering data.
Continuously Monitor Assets
Get the right information at the right time for proactive risk management, safety, and predictive maintenance applications. You can observe changes in the surroundings over time helping to predict potential future behaviors.
Recommended Software and Solutions
Bentley’s asset performance software provides a set of applications for optimizing utility assets. Used by maintenance engineers, inspectors, and asset managers, our solutions leverage the data organizations own to mitigate risk, increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Asset Performance Software
Ensure predictability with reliability strategy and risk-based analysis, data management, and decision support. And optimize maintenance strategies for safety and compliance.
Monitoring and Inspection Software
Provide easier access to information on hard-to-inspect or far away locations. And with the use of other solutions such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, you can build a digital twin that automatically detects issues.
Business Intelligence Software
Visualize data from multiple third-party systems, including point cloud data, imagery, texture 3D mesh, and traditional GIS and engineering data to develop a comprehensive view for analysis and action.
“Our company evaluated other software programs and found SPIDA to be our best choice on a long list of relatively long business requirements. SPIDA integrated well with our primary record and data keeping program.”
– A senior specialist Transmission Engineering Southern California Edison
Hear From Our Users
BC Hydro
BC Hydro Creates Consistency in Pole Design and Analysis While Ensuring Government Compliance
By adopting SPIDAcalc, BC Hydro could update and validate standards that meet requirements for geometric nonlinear analysis for pole loading.
Utilities Kingston
Utilities Kingston Streamlines and Simplifies Design Analysis
SPIDAcalc simplified the design analysis process by moving from manual to modern workflows.
Toth & Associates
Toth & Associates Restores Power to 1,500 People 18 Days ahead of Schedule
Power Line Systems Optimizes Design to Ensure Safe
and Reliable Service
POWERCHINA HUBEI
Underground Substation
Power grid improves power supply reliability and supports Wuchang city development.
Essential Energy
Intelligent' substation models
Essential Energy is using drone-captured imagery and software to create “intelligent” three-dimensional models of its substations that engineers can interact with and use to plan upgrade works remotely.
LADWP
Engineering and Construction Collaboration
200 Engineers, designers, and construction personnel get fast and accurate reuse of 300,000 design and construction files with 80% reduction in research time.
EPCOR
System Reliability
Team improves safety and reliability and prioritizes assets for replacement.
Pestech
Lempit Substation Project
50% reduction in design time and MYR 200,000 savings with a digital twin.
TRC
Distribution Substation 3D Modeling
The team helped National Grid integrate exiting conditions with new construction, keeping substation operational.
POWERCHINA HUBEI
Transmission Line Project
Integrated digital design helps team reduce design time by 12% and verification time by 16%.
PG&E
Substation Brownfield Reality Modeling
With A complete 3D model at the time of constructability review, the team measured electrical and physical clearances in real time.
