OpenUtilities Design Optioneering empowers utility network designers and planners to better collaborate and ensure network models are cost-effective, reliable, and smart. Utility network planners, designers, and GIS experts need close collaboration to guarantee network resilience and reliability. Engineers analyze many system scenarios to optimize network performance, mitigate operating issues, and provide design reviews for complex network designs. Optimizing equipment size and estimating costs is critical for both designers and planners to create complex networks based on thorough infrastructure analysis. OpenUtilities Design Optioneering optimizes equipment sizing and cost, analyzes designs for feasibility with existing infrastructure, and plans system upgrades with cost information in mind so you can make more economical decisions. The solution enhances OpenUtilities Analysis capabilities with cost-based decision support for planning and designing multifaceted utility networks including the integration of distributed energy resources (DER). The application provides the ability to analyze both planned and existing infrastructure, optimize equipment sizing, and estimate current materials and labor costs for projects with integrated DER.
Using OpenUtilities Design Optioneering, electric utilities can:
- Accelerate planning and design with engineering-precision capabilities.
- Refine plans and designs quickly with on-the-fly cost estimation.
- Avoid project delays using fast workflows with integrated work management.
- Eliminate time-consuming cycles in your enterprise work management system (WMS) by ensuring plans and designs are submitted within budget the first time.
- Build in resilience in response to the global energy transition to grid edge solutions.