Transforming Utility Networks Through Power and Gas Systems Digitalization
Elevate electric and gas grid management using multiscale virtual twins and a common data environment for efficient, future-ready networks.
Revolutionizing Utility Networks for a Climate-Ready Future
The energy transition and climate change imperatives demand a global-scale transformation of how utility networks operate. Aging infrastructure, renewable integration and evolving regulations require innovative solutions to stay competitive in an ever-evolving industry.
Digitalization drives the modernization of networks for enhanced power (electricity) and gas grid performance and operational resilience against future challenges. An integrated approach achieved through virtual twin technology and a common data environment allows transmission and distribution system operators to achieve greater sustainability, efficiency and adaptability in their operations.
The 3DEXPERIENCE® platform drives the digitalization of utility networks for:
Proactive Asset Management
Extreme weather events call for advanced solutions to ensure utility networks remain resilient. Virtual twin technology provides real-time monitoring for predictive maintenance to mitigate risks and minimize downtime during adverse scenarios. By ensuring regulatory compliance and alignment with carbon targets, transmission and distribution system operators can confidently integrate renewable energy sources into increasingly complex power (electricity) and gas grids.
Seamless Team Collaboration
Efficient utility networks require streamlined communication and collaboration across diverse teams. A common data environment enhances data quality, traceability and accessibility, enabling seamless coordination between internal teams and external contractors. This unified approach accelerates the decision-making process, fostering better compliance to industry regulations and energy standards.
Streamlined Lifecycle Management
Adapting to future demands requires utility networks to standardize and optimize the asset lifecycle management process. Virtual twin technology within a geospatial context enables precise planning, strategic asset renewal and proactive maintenance. This empowers operators to enhance resilience, control costs and ensure uninterrupted service delivery, even in dynamic conditions.
Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables utility companies like Snam to maintain assets throughout their lifecycle, adapt them to ensure that energy systems work when needed most and deliver new solutions.
The Blueprint to Future-Ready Utility Grids
Digitalization using virtual twin technology and a common data environment revolutionizes utility networks.
The future of effective power (electricity) and gas grid management hinges on the ability to adapt and digitalize. The 3DEXPERIENCE serves as a single source of truth for teams to collaborate across all phases of an operation. This facilitates the seamless transition from linear, resource-centric asset management to more flexible, integrated power and gas systems.
Smart Strategies for Utility Modernization
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Power and Gas Systems Digitalization Process: What You Need to Know
Virtual asset management of an energy system has multiple capabilities. It can build a virtual twin of a physical asset, such as towers or substations, with as-design and as-built 2D and 3D information and conduct modeling, simulating and testing of an entire asset environment. Doing this guarantees compliance and optimization of the engineering, manufacturing and construction experience.
Simulations are run on the virtual model to explore how an asset will behave when assembled and operated, across its entire lifecycle and when subjected to various events. Visualizing the asset in its environmental context helps operators make informed decisions for planning, asset optimization, sustainability and overall corporate strategy.
A common data environment enabled by virtual asset management manages information for all stakeholders across the asset lifecycle, bridging the gap between data types and formats, visualizing and managing distributed assets at multiple scales with the virtual twin and establishing the standardization of parts and processes.
A lack of alignment between the as-designed, as-built and as-maintained phases in engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of a physical asset leads to costly expenditures. A common data environment enables visibility and traceability through the exchange of information across an extended ecosystem for the entire asset lifecycle. By mastering a single source of truth, quality improves and time spent searching for information is reduced.
Maintenance operations can be high-risk and complex, requiring a skilled workforce with the appropriate training, credentials and authorizations. Therefore, preparation is critical.
Virtual twins leverage the as-built and as-maintained asset information to plan and execute inspection and maintenance tasks and create work packages with accurate information. A corporate catalog of standardized equipment identifies a list of operations and requirements for operators to visualize virtually prior to execution in the field.
Data handling, validation and traceability are key to upholding data governance. Implementing automated validation checks helps identify and rectify data errors or inconsistencies, typical in any organization. A common data environment acts as a single source of truth by aggregating data in as-design, as-built and as-maintained 3D models, leveraging the virtual twin as a placeholder for all asset information.