Home
Services
Case Studies
Contact us
Product | Distribution digital twin
D-Twin™
A physics-solved distribution-grid digital twin

D-Twin™ is a physics-grounded replica of your MV/LV network that solves a full power flow for every scenario. It turns open network and DER data into a defensible hosting-capacity and reinforcement decision, backed by numbers rather than rules of thumb.

Live Westnetz demo below
Distribution-grid digital twin

D-Twin™

A live replica of your network that answers "what happens if" with physics.

D-Twin™ is Heterodyne's distribution-grid digital twin: a live, physics-grounded replica of your MV/LV network that runs a full power flow on every scenario you give it. As DER, EV and heat-pump uptake climb toward 2030 and beyond, it shows voltage rise, thermal loading and losses responding in real time. Open network and DER data become a clear hosting-capacity and reinforcement decision, backed by numbers rather than rules of thumb. Simulate before you spend.
110 kV GRID LOAD PV WIND BESS EV LOAD 0.99 pu 1.05 pu 1.06 pu 1.02 pu 1.01 pu 1.00 pu
Grid supplyDER exportLimit breach

Capabilities

From open data to a defensible network decision

Live power flow

A per-unit solver recomputes voltage, feeder loading and losses across every node and branch the instant a control moves. Nothing is illustrated. It's solved.

Hosting capacity

See how much more solar, wind or storage a feeder can absorb before the first voltage or thermal limit binds, the number every connection request should be judged against.

Scenario build-out

Step demand and DER to 2030 and 2040, add EV and heat-pump uptake, and watch where the network breaks first, and when.

Non-wires first

Every operating point names the cheapest lever, reactive dispatch and tap control while headroom lasts, steel in the ground only when it's truly required.

In the field

A Westnetz 20 kV network grounded in Open Power System Data

D-Twin™ · Eifel demonstrator

Midday export before a euro is committed.

The demonstrator reconstructs a medium-voltage network in the Eifel and populates it with distributed generation whose attributes follow the real OPSD schema, capacity, technology, grid-connection voltage, NUTS region and the Westnetz operator tag. On a sunny midday, unmanaged export pushes the network past its limits; step to 2040 and it degrades predictably.

76 MW
DER · 3.8× peak load
1.08 pu
midday voltage rise
201%
peak feeder loading
19
limit breaches
Voltage profile along a feeder, nodes climb through the +6% limit as export builds.
DER data · Open Power System Data · CC-BY 4.0