Power Utilities
GridGuard™️ digital twins for resilient distribution, transmission & substations.
Harness physics-grounded climate simulations to quantify asset vulnerability, optimize mitigation investments and maintain reliable service in the face of wildfires, floods and extreme weather.
GridGuard™️ Physics-AI Digital Twins Fueling Utility Resilience
Why Utilities Need Climate Digital Twins
Escalating Event Costs: Wildfire-related distribution failures have inflicted over $1 billion in annual damages in high-risk regions; flood-induced substation outages can cost $20–$50 million per incident.
Regulatory Mandates: Compliance with FERC, NERC, CPUC and provincial flood-resilience standards requires granular risk assessments and evidence of proactive mitigation.
Operational Continuity: Every hour of unplanned outage can translate into $500K–$2 million of lost revenue and penalties.
Orbyfy’s climate digital twins combine real-time weather, terrain, infrastructure and physics laws to deliver actionable insights—no PhD required.
Distribution Network Resilience
Preventing vegetation-ignited wildfires & reducing outages. Distribution feeders account for nearly 20% of wildfires in high-risk zones, triggering multi-million-dollar liabilities and customer disruptions. While, traditional aerial patrols and blanket trimming inflate O&M budgets by up to 40%. Furthermore, there are many technology solution providers - but few provide actual results.
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City-Scale Ignite Twin simulates spark-ignition risk along every conductor span using advection–diffusion–reaction PDEs, real-time wind and fuel data.
Hotspot Risk Mapping pinpoints 10% of line-miles driving 70% of wildfire starts, enabling targeted vegetation management.
Value Delivered
30% reduction in trimming hours and arbor costs
60% fewer vegetation-related ignition events
ROI: $3 in avoided damages for every $1 spent
Substation & Grid-Scale Resilience
Flood-proofing critical assets and network planning. Floods compromise substation safety systems, leading to multi-day outages and $20–$50 million in equipment losses per flooded site. Grid-wide resiliency analyses often rely on coarse FEMA maps, missing local drainage and soil-infiltration nuances.
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Aqualyt™️ Substation Digital Twin employs shallow-water PDEs with real-time precipitation, elevation, soil moisture and urban drainage data to forecast substation inundation at 10-, 50- and 100-year events.
Asset Risk Vulnerability Dashboard overlays flood depths with electrical schematics, enabling rapid identification of at-risk breakers, transformers and control houses.
Value Delivered
40% reduction in flood-related downtime by optimizing floodwall, berm and pump installations
$30M in avoided equipment and service-restoration costs per year
Data-driven siting for new substations that reduces future flood risk by up to 70%
Enhanced Outage Management, Response & Preparedness
Proactive dispatch and faster restoration. Utilities typically react to customer-reported outages; average restoration takes 4 hours, impacting 20,000+ customers and costing $1 million/hr. Limited situational awareness during storm events delays crew deployment and undermines communication with stakeholders.
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Real-Time Hazard Overlay: Fuse wildfire, flood or wind-load forecasts with network topology to predict outage probability per grid segment.
Pre-Positioning Tool: Automatically rank and recommend crew pre-deployment locations to minimize travel time and maximize first-response impact.
Restoration Scenario Simulator: Model alternative repair sequences to identify the fastest end-to-end restoration path under evolving hazard conditions.
Value Delivered
25% faster average restoration times
20% fewer customers without power during peak hazard windows
$5M saved in operational and penalty costs per major event season
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Digital Twins
Ignite insight. Extinguish risk.
Our solutions
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Orbyfy Physics-AI Digital Twins™️
Adaptable city-scale digital twins for climate risk modeling: hurricanes, flooding, wildfire, hail, drought & erosion. Making climate risk impact data accessible and as easy as searching for an address. Period.
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Orbyfy Aqualyt™️ Flood Digital Twin
City-scale hydrologic digital twins powered by Physics-AI. Translating flood climate risks into hydrologic forces, inundation depths and damage impacts on buildings, infrastructures and communities.
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Orbyfy Ignite™️ Wildfire Digital Twin
City-scale wildfire intensity and propagation twins powered by Physics-AI. Translating wildfire climate risks into climate forces and impacts and damages for buildings, infrastructures and homes.
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Geolocate risks. As easy as searching for an address on Google Maps.
Key benefits across the power grid
Real-Time, Browser-Based UI: Intuitive map layers, time-slider controls and exportable GeoJSON/CSV.
API-First Integration: Plug hazard and risk data directly into GIS, OMS/ADMS, EAMS or SCADA platforms.
Explainable Physics-AI: Every risk score and damage estimate is backed by first-principles PDEs—no “black-box” uncertainty.
Custom “What-If” Scenarios: Stress-test any climate-driven hazard, from 1-in-10 wildfires to 100-year storm surges.