---
id: organizations/uk-ndtp
about:
  depiction: organizations/uk-ndtp.jpg
  label: UK NDTP
  description: >-
    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.
  tags:
    - national programme
    - standards
    - demonstrator
    - Isle of Wight
    - resilience
organization:
  form: programme
  homepage: >-
    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-national-digital-twin-programme-ndtp
  country: United Kingdom
open:
  source: unknown
  data: unknown
  api: unknown
  participation: partly
domains:
  - energy
relations:
  - predicate: answers
    target: questions/electrification
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: National Digital Twin Programme (NDTP) - GOV.UK
      url: >-
        https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-national-digital-twin-programme-ndtp
    - title: >-
        Energy system: National Digital Twin Programme (NDTP) - Case study -
        GOV.UK
      url: >-
        https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/energy-system-national-digital-twin-programme-ndtp
    - title: >-
        Retrofitting in housing: National Digital Twin Programme (NDTP) - Case
        study - GOV.UK
      url: >-
        https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/retrofitting-in-housing-national-digital-twin-programme-ndtp
    - title: >-
        Asset resilience, emergency planning and response: The National Digital
        Twin Programme (NDTP) - Case study - GOV.UK
      url: >-
        https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/asset-resilience-emergency-planning-and-response-the-national-digital-twin-programme-ndtp
  reviewed: '2026-10-18'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
The programme's aim is to grow national capability in digital twinning and a working market for twins.[^1] Those twins should be safe, secure, trustworthy and ethical, able to exchange information with each other, and maintainable over time by organisations of any size.[^1] It is a government research and development programme,[^1] with nothing to install or buy.

The demonstrators on the Isle of Wight run in phases.[^1] The energy-system demonstrator models the island's electricity network from the 132 kV interconnectors down to 400 V transformers.[^2] A flexible marketplace for controllable heating, storage and e-mobility is added on top, to test how the island could become self-sufficient in renewable electricity and reach net zero by 2040.[^2] The stakeholders are Isle of Wight Council, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and the Isle of Wight Energy Hub.[^2]

The housing-retrofit demonstrator started in December 2022.[^3] It helps retrofit companies and third-sector organisations find homeowners eligible for funding such as ECO4, and put vulnerable households first.[^3] Its outputs are draft playbooks on user and data requirements, a carbon calculator for the data handling itself, and a visualisation tool.[^3] Pilots were planned from October 2023.[^3]

The asset-resilience demonstrator began in July 2022.[^4] The council, police, fire and rescue, the NHS trust and the ambulance service work with it on land slippage, flooding and other incidents.[^4] It has produced a tool for assessing infrastructure vulnerability and a visualisation tool for event planning and response.[^4]

The collection and case studies were published on 30 October 2023.[^1,2,3,4] Guidance on what a digital twin is and how organisations can contribute followed in January 2024.[^1]