Energy

Water reaches one substation; water pumping and communications can go down with it.

WaterEnergy

Connected Places Catapult's Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) models the dependencies between energy, water, telecoms and transport networks to show how extreme weather cascades from one to another.

EnergyWater

Google's family of geospatial AI models and agents, covering satellite imagery, weather, floods and population, reached through Google Earth, Earth Engine, BigQuery, Maps Platform and Google Cloud.

Cities & placesPeople & societyWeather & climateWaterEnergy partly open sourcepartly open dataAPI

Experimental Gemini-based agent from Google Research that plans a multi-step spatial analysis, calls Earth AI models and geospatial data sources, and returns the result with its plan and sources shown.

Cities & placesPeople & societyWeather & climateEnergy closed sourceAPI

Two ways to connect separate simulators into one run; HELICS is an open-source co-simulation framework from US national laboratories, and FMI is the Modelica Association's standard for packaging and exchanging dynamic models.

Energy open source

Integrated Environmental Solutions (Glasgow) sells building-performance software; its digital twin tools join physics-based simulation with metered data for energy, carbon and retrofit decisions, from one building to a campus or city.

Energy closed source

Neara's commercial 3D model of an electricity network, built from a utility's LiDAR, imagery and GIS records; simulates loads, clearances, weather and failure risk on every pole and line.

Energy closed source

PyPSA is an open-source Python framework from TU Berlin for optimising power and energy systems; PyPSA-Eur is the open model of the European energy system built on it, covering electricity, transport, heating and industry.

Energy open sourceopen dataopen participation

Open-source lighting simulation from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; uses ray tracing to predict light levels and the appearance of a space before it is built, for daylight and electric light.

Sensory landscapeEnergy open sourcepartly open participation

The UK government's National Digital Twin Programme, led by the Department for Business and Trade, develops standards, processes and tools for connected digital twins and tests them in demonstrators on the Isle of Wight.

Energy partly open participation

As heating, driving and industry move to electricity, where will the network run short, and what mix of wires, storage and generation fixes it?

Energy

The City of Helsinki publishes its 3D city models and an energy and climate atlas as open data; the Municipality of Bologna is building a digital twin as civic infrastructure with a public research consortium.

Cities & placesEnergy partly open datapartly open participation

Recent reports, from a creek in Kentucky to the Strait of Hormuz, each read for the question someone there would put to a model of their place, and the kind of model that would answer it.

WaterLiving systemsWeather & climateFood & landEnergy

Website from the Institute for Progress that charts US energy production, consumption, prices and grid reliability, nationally and for every state, from open government data such as the EIA.

Energy open data