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.
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.
Planning
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.
Design
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.
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.
- SPIDAcalc
- SPIDAsilk
- PLS-GRID
- PLS-CADD
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.
- iTwin Experience
- PLS-GRID
- PLS-CADD
- SPIDAcalc
- SPIDAstudio