The clean energy transition currently reshaping the electric power utility system requires intelligent management of unprecedented amounts of new and changing grid asset data. For the past century, the grid consisted primarily of large fossil fuel power plants generating power that was sent in one direction to the homes and businesses that consumed them.

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Managing and supporting the clean energy transition is just one reason utilities must work to create a resilient, sustainable and intelligent grid. To build that grid of the future, utilities are adopting advanced digital tools to achieve equally important and interconnected objectives. While the volume and pace of change facing electric utilities is daunting, the opportunities for load growth and leading the transition to a decarbonized, healthy and prosperous tomorrow are unprecedented. Managing and mitigating the risks while successfully turning challenges into opportunities demands rapid adoption of digital technologies.

The Biden Administration and the Department of Energy (DoE) recently announced billions of dollars in funding to strengthen the resilience of the North American power grid.

Recent clarion calls from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have highlighted the imperative for accelerated global action towards reducing CO2 emissions.

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Real-time monitoring, control and resource optimization for exceptional performance of your power grid, integrating of renewables while maintaining high reliability.

AspenTech & Microsoft: Stronger Together! Optimize assets, improve performance, drive digital transformation for industrial enterprises on Azure Cloud.

AspenTech and AWS: Better Together! Partnering for effortless industrial IoT data migration to Amazon S3 cloud storage.

Shell recently completed a pilot evaluation of Aspen Unified Planning™ (AUP) and Aspen Unified Scheduling™ (AUS) at the Pernis and Moerdijk manufacturing complexes. The objective of the project was to simplify and streamline the deployment of newer software versions to enhance the efficiency and usability of its planning and scheduling tools.