Climate risk digital twins for utilities launched
Climate software developer ClimaTwin is offering the climate risk intelligence digital twins solution ‘as-a-service’.
The solution, which has been “purpose-built for electric utilities”, was developed with the Bentley company SPIDA drawing on its expertise in overhead asset health.
ClimaTwin says that its solution offers an asset specific, bottom-up approach to enable energy sector stakeholders to mitigate climate risks, assess adaptation actions and prioritise resiliency spending for each individual asset, whether a utility pole, overhead line, transmission tower or substation transformer, across thousands or millions of geographically distributed assets in a power grid, utility network or capital programme.
ClimaTwin co-founder and chief executive Adam Omansky said: “Now, with simple and secure integration to SPIDA, energy and utility stakeholders can perform complex analysis and gain actionable insights into future weather and climate extremes across millions of assets, visualising and analysing a broad spectrum of hazards, vulnerabilities and risks over decades in the future and hyper-localised down to the specific geolocation of each asset.”
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The ClimaTwin-SPIDA offering is one of several new climate-focussed digital twin solutions emerging.
Another is Climate X’s Spectra, which is designed to deliver location-specific risk ratings and climate adjusted loss estimates up to the year 2100 for the energy sector and others that need such data including banking, insurance and real estate.
A third is anticipated in the coming months from an extension of a long standing collaboration between Dassault Systèmes and IBM.
Under an agreement the two companies plan to combine Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and virtual twin experiences and IBM’s asset management IoT platform and environmental intelligence suite to deliver insights and solutions for modernising assets, optimising operations and accelerating sustainability outcomes.
The digital twin solution is aimed at asset intensive industries and will be prioritised to electricity and water distribution and transmission owners and operators as well as airports and data centre IT infrastructure projects.
