Power | Energie Utilities
Asset Investment Planning for power utilities
Generation, transmission, distribution. Plan multi-year capital programmes that hold up under PUC scrutiny, hit SAIDI and SAIFI targets, and integrate the DER and EV load reshaping your grid.
Aligned to
SAIDI · SAIFI
And rate-case formats
Asset classes
Generation · T&D
poles, substations, lines
Horizon
5–30 years
year-by-year
What is AIP for power utilities ?
Asset Investment Planning for power utilities is the software-supported discipline used by generation owners and T&D operators to prioritize multi-billion-dollar capital programmes — substation renewals, line replacements, smart-meter rollouts, DER integration, generation retirements — under regulatory revenue caps. AIP analyses asset condition, risk of failure, reliability impact (SAIDI/SAIFI), carbon footprint, and financial constraints to produce a defensible multi-year investment plan. According to the Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions (G00781827, December 2024), 67% of utility respondents already deploy AIP in some form of cloud.
Where today's power CAPEX decisions break
Aging T&D infrastructure
Wood poles, overhead lines, substation transformers in service for 40–60 years. Failure consequence is uneven and weather-correlated.
Rate-case approval risk
Without an evidentiary trail back to asset-level condition data, regulators reject CAPEX requests or impose lower revenue caps.
DER & EV load
Distributed solar, batteries, EV charging fundamentally change load shape. Plans built on historical demand forecasts are already obsolete.
Climate-driven outage risk
Storms, wildfire, heat events — historical SAIDI baselines understate forward risk. Reliability investment has to be modelled forward, not backward.
Workforce attrition
Veteran planning engineers retiring with the asset model in their heads. Decision logic has to live in the platform, not in their notebooks.
Net-zero commitments
Generation retirement schedules colliding with reliability needs. The 2035 commitment has to coexist with tonight's load.
How Simeo applies to power utilities ?
From substation condition to board-approved capital plan. Simeo by Oxand consolidates field condition (mobile inspections via Simeo GO), asset register (CMMS, GIS), and reliability data (SCADA, OMS) into a single planning model — then projects it forward 5, 10, 30 years under whatever budget, reliability, and decarbonization constraints you set.
Asset register, unified
Poles, lines, transformers, switchgear, substations, generation units. Bulk import from CMMS or GIS in days, not months.
Failure probability + consequence
10,000+ predictive degradation models calibrated to power-asset families. Risk = probability × service consequence — not age alone.
Multi-year scenario simulation
Compare "approved €1.2B" vs "€900M" vs "€1.5B" at the asset level. See exactly which substation slips and what reliability cost it carries.
Carbon as a first-class constraint
Generation retirement, line losses, vehicle electrification, battery storage. Quantify CO₂ per euro for every action.
Audit-ready evidence trail
Every recommended investment links back to the asset, the inspection, the model, and the action. ISO 55001-aligned.
Live integration with CMMS & SCADA
Field execution flows back into the model. Strategic plan flows forward to operational priorities. Partner: CARL Software →
Use cases for power utilities
Three common workflows on day one.
Rate-case analysis
Evidence-backed CAPEX justification. Asset-level traceability from condition data to dollar request. Defensible under regulator cross-examination.
Grid investment planning
5–30 year reinforcement, replacement, and reliability programmes. DER integration scenarios. Substation renewal prioritization.
Net-zero vs reliability trade-offs
Decarbonization pathway alongside SAIDI commitments and revenue caps. See where the trade-offs bite.
Outcomes
What power utility executives quote back.
25 - 30%
TCO reduction
10%+
Asset availability
6–12 wks
First plan
ISO 55001
Audit-ready
Without modern AIP
- Reliability investments justified on age and historical SAIDI
- Rate-case files assembled from spreadsheets in the final weeks
- DER and EV load handled in side analyses, not in the core plan
- Climate risk modelled (if at all) on backward-looking baselines
- Decarbonization pathways disconnected from CAPEX
With Simeo by Oxand
- Reliability investments weighted by service consequence and forward risk
- Audit-ready evidence trail generated from the live planning model
- DER and EV load modelled as scenario inputs alongside generation
- Forward climate exposure modelled at the asset level
- Net-zero pathway, CAPEX programme, and revenue cap modelled together
Other utility networks
Compare across networks.
Water Utilities
Mains, treatment plants, pumping stations. AMP-cycle CAPEX. Buried-asset risk modelling.
Gas Utilities
Distribution networks, compressors, pressure regulation. Methane-leak prioritization. Hydrogen-readiness scenarios.
Energy & Utilities — overview
The Energy & Utilities hub. How AIP applies across all three networks.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Simeo's evidence trail aligns with the documentation US Public Utility Commissions expect — asset register, condition assessments, predictive model output, action library, and the multi-year capital plan that ties them together. The same model supports EU regulatory filings (Ofgem, CRE, ARERA, BNetzA).
DER penetration and EV load are scenario inputs that reshape the multi-year investment plan — substation upgrade timing, line capacity, voltage management. You can simulate aggressive DER scenarios alongside conservative ones and see the asset-level impact.
Yes — via REST and GraphQL APIs. Field condition and reliability events feed into the model; strategic plan feeds out to operational prioritization and CMMS work-order generation.
Can we self-host on our own infrastructure?Yes. Simeo offers a fully self-hosted Kubernetes deployment for utilities under air-gap, national-security, or strict data-isolation constraints. Default option is Azure France region (EU residency, ISO 27001, NIS2-aligned). See deployment options →
How does Simeo compare to Copperleaf, Cosmo Tech, or Brightly for power utilities?See Simeo on your power network.
One walkthrough on your substations, your SAIDI targets, your rate-case timeline.
Yes. Simeo offers a fully self-hosted Kubernetes deployment for utilities under air-gap, national-security, or strict data-isolation constraints. Default option is Azure France region (EU residency, ISO 27001, NIS2-aligned). See deployment options →
Simeo, Copperleaf, and Cosmo Tech are all native AIP platforms named in the Gartner Market Guide for AIP (G00781827, December 2024). Brightly is primarily an EAM with adjacent AIP capabilities. See the 2026 utility comparison →