Energy & Utilities
Asset Investment Planning for power, water, and gas utilities
Rate-case-ready capital plans that balance grid investment, climate resilience, workforce capacity, and the net-zero pathway. Built for the utility planning cycle, the regulatory file, and the boardroom — by the AIP vendor named in the Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions, December 2024.
Use cases
Power · Water · Gas
Plus district heating
Decision horizon
5–30 years
year-by-year simulation
Regulatory readiness
Rate cases
EPBD · CSRD · ISO 55001
What is Asset Investment Planning for utilities ?
Asset Investment Planning (AIP) for utilities is the discipline — and the software category — used by power, water, and gas utilities to identify and prioritize capital investment across the asset life cycle. AIP analyses cash flow, performance, and reliability under different scenarios to recommend the optimal multi-year investment plan. Buyers use AIP to defend rate cases, justify CAPEX, hit reliability metrics like SAIDI, and align capital allocation with net-zero and grid-modernization commitments. Source: Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions, G00781827, December 2024.
Simeo by Oxand is the AIP platform for utilities that need to defend a rate case on Monday, hit a SAIDI target on Tuesday, and present a 30-year decarbonization roadmap on Wednesday — all from the same model.
Six forces compressing utility CAPEX decisions in 2026.
Gartner’s Top Trends for Energy and Utilities Product Leaders in 2026 (G00843711, February 2026) calls out the same forces utility executives describe to us in the field. Capital is finite, the assets are aging faster than the workforce can replace them, and every plan has to defend itself against six simultaneous demands.
The energy transition
DERs, electrification, EV load, retirement of fossil generation. The grid you planned for in 2010 is not the grid you're running in 2026 — or building for 2040.
Climate volatility
Storms, heat domes, drought, wildfire. Reliability metrics (SAIDI, SAIFI) are now climate-correlated. Investments have to be modelled against weather risk, not historical baselines.
Grid & network investment
Transmission expansion, distribution hardening, substation renewals, smart-meter rollouts. Multi-billion-euro programmes that all compete for the same regulatory approval.
Rate-case discipline
PUCs, regulators, and public inquiries demand the auditable evidence trail behind every dollar. "We always do it this way" is no longer a defensible answer.
Workforce capacity
The senior engineers who held the asset model in their heads are retiring. The decision logic has to live in the platform, not in their notebooks.
Net-zero vs reliability
Voluntary or mandated decarbonization targets have to coexist with affordability, reliability, and service continuity. The trade-offs are real and have to be modelled.
How Simeo answers each pressure
Six pressures, one decision platform.
Energy transition modelling
Year-by-year scenarios for DER integration, EV load, generation retirement, and grid reinforcement. Built on 1,300+ energy performance models so the trade-offs are quantified, not assumed.
Climate-aware risk weighting
Asset-level risk profiles weighted by service criticality and exposure. Investments prioritized where the consequence of failure is highest, not where the asset is oldest.
Multi-year capital programmes
Compare 5, 10, 20-year scenarios under budget constraints. Show what happens when the regulator approves €1.2B vs €900M — at the asset level, with reliability and carbon impact.
Rate-case-ready evidence
Every recommendation links back to the asset register, the condition data, the model that produced it, and the action library. Audit-ready, ISO 55001-aligned. See the rate-case workflow →
Decision logic in the platform
10,000+ predictive models and 30,000+ recommended actions encode 20 years of asset expertise. New planners inherit institutional knowledge on day one.
Net-zero alongside CAPEX
Carbon and energy modelled inside every scenario — not in a side dashboard. Quantify CO₂ per euro for every action. See the trade-off model →
Pick your network. We've planned in it before.
Power Utilities
Generation, transmission, distribution. SAIDI/SAIFI-aligned investment plans. DER integration. Substation and pole renewals.
Water Utilities
Mains, treatment plants, pumping stations, sewer networks. Risk-based replacement and refurbishment under non-revenue water and AMP-cycle constraints.
Gas Utilities
Distribution networks, compressors, pressure regulation. Methane-leak prioritization. Hydrogen-readiness scenarios for legacy assets.
Who Simeo serves inside a utility
Built for the utility buying committee — not just one role. Gartner’s research on utility tech buyers makes the point clearly: budgets can come from central IT or from a line of business, and the Asset Head sits at the centre of the buying committee. Simeo is built for that committee.
Asset Heads
Multi-year, defensible asset strategy. Portfolio risk profile. ISO 55001 governance. The owner of the multi-year plan.
Executive Leadership
Board-ready scenarios. Rate-case alignment. Strategic ROI on regulated capital.
Facility & Asset Managers
Field condition into investment cases. Mobile inspections. CMMS-integrated execution.
Sustainability & ESG
Net-zero pathways linked to assets. CSRD/EPBD reporting. Carbon per euro per scenario.
Outcomes utilities measure
The numbers utility executives quote back to us.
25 - 30%
TCO reduction
10%+
Availability improvement
6–12 wks
First multi-year plan
Audit-ready
ISO 55001 evidence trail
Without modern AIP
- Spreadsheet-based 5-year plans rebuilt from scratch every cycle
- Age-based replacement; no risk weighting
- Carbon and CAPEX in separate conversations
- Rate-case evidence assembled manually under deadline pressure
- Decision logic locked in retiring engineers' heads
With Simeo by Oxand
- Living multi-year plan that updates as field condition changes
- Risk-weighted, criticality-aligned prioritization
- Carbon and CAPEX modelled together in every scenario
- One-click audit trail back to the model and the inspection
- Institutional knowledge encoded in 10,000+ models and 30,000+ actions
Connects to your stack
CMMS (Maximo, Infor, CARL), ERP (SAP, Oracle), GIS, BIM, IoT/SCADA telemetry. REST & GraphQL APIs.
EU data residency · self-hosted option
Azure France region by default. Fully self-hosted Kubernetes deployment available for utilities under national-security or air-gapped constraints. Security & trust →
Hybrid delivery model
Per Gartner's AI Vendor Race (G00845679), 87% of utilities want hybrid — internal teams plus vendor support. Simeo is designed for that model.
Recognized by Gartner
Oxand is named as a representative AIP vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions, December 2024.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Simeo produces the auditable evidence trail regulators expect — every recommended investment links back to the asset register, the condition data, the predictive model that flagged it, and the maintenance or renewal action it triggers. See the rate-case workflow →
Carbon and energy are first-class constraints inside every scenario, not a side dashboard. You can simulate "hit 60% emissions reduction by 2035" alongside "maintain SAIDI under 80 minutes" and "stay inside the approved revenue cap" — and see where the trade-offs bite at the asset level. See the trade-off model →
Yes. Simeo integrates with major CMMS (Maximo, Infor EAM, CARL Software, SAP) and ingests SCADA / IoT telemetry via REST & GraphQL APIs. Field condition feeds back into the investment plan; strategic decisions flow forward to operational priorities.
No. Oxand has offices in France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, and delivers utility projects across EMEA, North America, and APAC. Simeo handles US PUC rate-case formats, EU CSRD/EPBD reporting, and ISO 55001 globally. See our global delivery model →
Simeo, Copperleaf, and Cosmo Tech are all native AIP platforms (Gartner Market Guide, December 2024). IBM Maximo and Brightly are EAM/asset-management products with adjacent AIP capabilities. The differentiation between AIP-native vendors comes down to the depth of the predictive model library, the speed of scenario simulation, and how cleanly the platform integrates carbon as a first-class constraint. See the 2026 comparison →
Most utility customers have a first multi-year scenario in 6–12 weeks. ROI typically lands within the first budget cycle, helped by predefined ageing models and turnkey CMMS / ERP integrations.