Utility planning and investment leaders comparing grid capacity options using a physical management display. Illustrative generated scene.
Helios for Energy & Utilities

what’s next?

The wind is blowing. Can the grid use the power?

The Helios Experience

Explore grids, generation and curtailment.
You define the outcome. Helios finds the path.

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Explore grids, generation and curtailment.

Generation is only useful when the system can absorb it. Connect capacity, demand and network limits to compare dispatch, storage and investment decisions.

Meet Helios Brain

01Network capacity

02Demand and generation

03Reliability and regulation

Explore the Helios experience

Energy & Utilities
Helios BrainDEMO

AI-generated, hypothetical plans. No live business data, verified professional advice or real actions.

Do not enter sensitive information. Prompts are processed by AI and temporarily retained for this demo.

Choose a question or write your own goal0/5 steps connected
  1. 01
    Define the outcome
  2. 02
    Connect dependencies
  3. 03
    Compare routes
  4. 04
    Check constraints
  5. 05
    Human approval
Choose a question or enter your goal.The AI will create five steps and three distinct routes.
RecommendedBalanced path
AI-proposed timing
Awaiting AI
Referenced constraints
Awaiting AI map
Approval
Pending
ClearPressureBlockedAssumptionDependencyApproval gateEvidence

From grid strategy to asset reality.

Investment leaders and system planners evaluate the grid. Control-room teams operate within approved limits. Field engineers bring back the reality of the assets.

Decision authority

Grid planning, system operations & investment leadership

Approve network investments and operating strategies through the appropriate technical, investment and regulatory authorities.

Helios supports

Compare capacity, reliability, storage and curtailment options before committing resources.

A wind-farm technician using a rugged smartphone beside a turbine during an inspection. Illustrative generated scene.
Field engineers & maintenance teams
Rugged mobile in the field

An inspection informs the plan. It does not authorize it.

A technician records asset condition and completes assigned work. Those observations can inform a system-level recommendation without giving the technician authority over grid strategy.

Appropriate scope
Perform permitted inspections and maintenance under approved safety procedures.
Review & escalation
Control-room and engineering authorities for operating exceptions; investment leadership for capital changes.
Evidence returned
Asset condition, inspection findings, availability and maintenance completion.

Illustrative ecosystem and interfaces, not a live deployment. Roles, integrations and approval limits are defined with each organization.

See the options. Understand the consequences.

01

Evaluate curtailment and storage options

Ground the comparison in your data, your objective and your constraints.

02

Compare grid investment priorities

Make dependencies and assumptions visible before you commit.

03

Plan for different demand scenarios

Carry the chosen path into a plan your team can review and act on.

The decisions worth rehearsing.

Potential applications, scoped to your data, priorities and operating environment.

01

Generation portfolio transitions

Test the transition from fossil to renewable generation against multiple demand, policy, and technology scenarios. See where reliability gaps emerge, where stranded asset risk concentrates, where the transition path holds up versus where it breaks.

02

Grid investment prioritization

When choosing between transmission, distribution, storage, and demand-side investments, test each against realistic future load patterns and renewable integration scenarios. Identify the investments that pay back across multiple futures, not just the consensus one.

03

Tariff design and customer impact

Before changing rate structures, simulate the impact on residential, commercial, and industrial customers across the service territory. See which segments benefit, which are harmed, where energy poverty risk increases. Adjust before regulatory filing.

04

Demand response and flexibility programs

Test program designs against actual customer behavior patterns. See participation rates, peak shaving impact, and revenue implications. Identify the structures that deliver real flexibility versus those that merely shift load on paper.

05

Climate adaptation and resilience

Project asset exposure to climate physical risk. Extreme weather, sea level rise, temperature shifts. Test adaptation investment strategies. Prioritize resilience spending where the consequences of failure are largest.

06

Long-term capacity planning

Plan generation and transmission capacity across thirty-year horizons. Integrate uncertainty about technology cost curves, policy trajectories, and demand evolution. Make commitments that hold up across plausible futures.

A useful pilot starts with the right foundations.

Agree a bounded decision, a baseline and acceptance criteria before introducing operational use. Scope and timing depend on your data, governance and intended application.

The data
  • Demand forecasts and time-aligned network state
  • Asset limits, availability and flexibility contracts
  • Historical dispatch decisions and exceptions
The people
  • System operations and grid planning owners
  • Asset-data and reliability specialists
  • Safety, governance and investment reviewers
The evaluation
  • Constraint violations on held-out historical cases
  • Quality of alternatives against an agreed baseline
  • Correct routing of operating versus capital decisions
Before operational use
  • Validated data freshness and operating limits
  • Named command authority and approval gates
  • Shadow-mode evaluation, fallback and incident procedures

Knowing when to stop is part of the decision.

Missing evidence, uncertain conditions and absent authority require different responses. A recommendation must not silently become an action.

The signal

Network telemetry or asset availability is stale.

Appropriate response
Request fresh evidence and withhold the proposed operating change.
Responsible review
System operations and the responsible asset-data owner
Before the path resumes
Network state and flexibility availability have been validated.

Your rules are part of the model.

Regulatory context shapes how a system should be designed and reviewed. Your legal, compliance and domain teams remain part of that process.

EU Green Deal and Fit for 55 transition requirements

National regulator oversight on tariff decisions

Critical infrastructure protection and cyber-resilience

TCFD climate-related financial disclosure for utilities

Context for implementation, not a certification or guarantee of regulatory compliance.

Trust and governance

Start with the decision that matters to you.

The outcome, the boundaries and the people responsible. A focused starting point for a conversation about your organization.

Use high-level descriptions only. Do not include confidential, personal, patient, financial-account or classified information.

  1. 01The outcome
  2. 02The constraints
  3. 03The people
  4. 04Your details

The outcome

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