Electric utilities are challenged to adopt clean energy practices, adapt to changing demand and customer needs, and ensure grid resilience and reliability. These challenges create pressure to digitalize and integrate workflows across power generation, transmission, distribution, and grid edge networks. Electric power owner-operators understand that going digital and digital twins are key components of a strategy aimed at replacing or enhancing traditional information systems (GIS, EAM, and EMS) to realize a comprehensive view of the grid. As the level of distributed energy resource (DER) penetration increases, energy utilities must modify their business and operating practices to plan, design, and operate integrated power networks that cross traditional silos of generation, transmission, and distribution. Digital twins provide a dynamic modeling foundation to enable smarter grid planning and operations.
OpenUtilities Digital Twin Services enables a digital representation of the physical grid assets, processes and/or systems, as well as the engineering information that allows us to understand and model its performance. It converges engineering, operational, and informational data into a connected data environment, allowing users to visualize grid assets, monitor network behavior, perform analysis, and generate insights. The process involves consolidating, validating, and aligning 2D and 3D design, GIS, reality, performance, simulation, and other enterprise data across departmental and workflow silos to form a consolidated view of the grid.
Unify grid modeling processes across organizational silos and functions
Integrate generation, transmission, and distribution modeling analysis; study the impact of DER penetration across the entire power grid; and view digital information in its proper digital context to its fullest extent in close to real time
Reduce time, effort, and resources used to maintain data repositories
Scale data maintenance and exchange across the IT landscape with built-in governance and security
Generate actionable insights for decision support
Explore data from any device and data source to make decisions in context. Easily collaborate on and share customized dashboards and interactive reports. More rapidly understand bi-directional power flows, weather-related intermittency, and changing customer expectations