Strategic digital grid advisory for future-ready power grids

Modernization requires advanced digital technologies and new operational models to manage increasingly complex electricity networks. Distributed energy resources, renewable integration, demand response, and real-time data exchange demand an agile, interoperable, and data-driven approach to grid management.

Key challenges include validating strategy, aligning organizational vision, defining business processes, integrating legacy IT/OT systems, ensuring cybersecurity compliance, and managing change to upskill personnel and adopt new ways of working.

About DNV’s strategic digital grid advisory services

DNV's strategic digital grid advisory services provide a comprehensive, global approach to guiding utilities through their grid modernization journey. Our services include:

• Smart grid roadmap: Developing a strategic roadmap to align your organization's vision, goals, and priorities for grid digitalization, ensuring a structured and phased approach to implementation.
  
  
• Digital grid transformation: Assessing your current capabilities and defining the target operating model, business processes, and technology architecture to enable a successful digital transformation.
  
  
• Change management: Facilitating the organizational and cultural changes required to adopt new digital technologies and ways of working, ensuring seamless integration and user adoption.
  
  
• Cost-benefit and risk analysis: Conducting in-depth analyses to quantify the business value and potential risks associated with your grid modernization initiatives, supporting informed decision-making.
  
  
• Grid operations process management: Optimizing your grid operations processes to leverage the capabilities of advanced digital technologies, such as ADMS, to enhance reliability, efficiency, and resilience.
  
  
• Aptitude diagnostics and assessment centre: Evaluating your organization's readiness and capabilities to undertake digital grid transformation, identifying skill gaps and development needs.

Why DNV

As a global leader in energy advisory services, DNV brings unparalleled expertise and experience to guide utilities through their strategic digital grid transformation. Our team of industry experts has a deep understanding of the evolving energy landscape and the specific challenges faced by utilities. We leverage our NextGen GridOps framework, aligned with industry standards like TOGAF, to provide a structured, comprehensive approach to grid modernization.

Our commitment to innovation, safety, and sustainability is reflected in our work, ensuring that your grid transformation initiatives are future-ready and aligned with the energy transition.

With a global presence and a track record of successful grid modernization projects, DNV is the trusted partner to help you navigate the digital transformation of your power grid.