GE Vernova Inc. announced the launch of PlanOS, a unified software suite designed to empower energy planners, utilities, and regulators with an integrated system planning platform for a smarter grid of the future. Built on decades of real-world modeling expertise and developed in close collaboration with system operators globally, PlanOS provides a modular yet deeply integrated environment to unlock faster iteration and better decision making.
With the energy transition accelerating and grid systems growing increasingly complex, the need for smarter, faster, and more holistic planning has never been greater. Traditional planning tools are siloed, disjointed, and slow to adapt to the challenges posed by renewable integration, electrification, and decarbonization. PlanOS was created to address this gap.
“Grid planners today face unprecedented complexity – the grid is undergoing significant transformations that are reshaping how we plan for reliability, resilience, and affordability,” said Jim Walsh, Vice President, GE Vernova’s Consulting Services. “PlanOS gives planners the unified environment they need to simulate, iterate, and act – confidently.”
Four Engines, One Platform
At the heart of PlanOS are four core simulation engines, all built on a shared data architecture:
- Power Flow: High-fidelity steady-state and dynamic analysis, including contingency studies, transmission planning, and interconnection analysis.
- Resource Adequacy: Industry-leading fidelity and integration to assess system reliability under a wide range of conditions, integrating weather, outages, and grid constraints.
- Production Cost: High-speed, extensible and integrated simulation linking investment with real-world dispatch and emissions.
- Capacity Expansion: Unique optimization engine to test multiple policy, technology, and demand futures – enabling robust, least-regret investment decisions.
Together, these engines allow users to run complex, interconnected studies in a single environment, with a unified dataset model, streamlining workflows and dramatically reducing time to insight.
Performance Meets Practicality
Built with high-performance computing at its core, PlanOS delivers results in a fraction of the time compared to legacy tools. Open APIs, scripting support, and a modular architecture make it both powerful and flexible – meeting the diverse needs of planners across markets and geographies.
“We didn’t start by building a product – we started by solving real planning problems,” said Gagan Porwal, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Software, GE Vernova’s Consulting Services. “PlanOS is the product of decades of experience and global collaboration. It’s been purpose-built and stress-tested – by planners, for planners.”
