Atos, in collaboration with National Grid, has revealed Triton, a cutting-edge Digital Twin and Data Visualization Tool designed to transform electricity infrastructure planning.
By leveraging innovative technology, Triton is set to expedite future network planning and cater to the rising energy demands associated with Great Britain's decarbonization objectives.
Enhancing Electricity Network Planning
Triton offers National Grid the capability to fast-track its network expansion strategies by providing a comprehensive visual platform.
This tool predicts electricity demand across supply points and transmission substations, offering crucial insights for strategic development and investment in the grid infrastructure.
Capabilities of Triton
Triton reduces time spent on analysis and decision-making for network reinforcements by 70%This advanced tool acts as a virtual replica of National Grid's physical assets, allowing the company to simulate network scenarios. This reduces time spent on analysis and decision-making for network reinforcements by an impressive 70%.
Owen Wilkes, Network Design Director at National Grid, emphasized the role of Triton in driving technological advancement to meet decarbonization targets. He stated, "Triton demonstrates how innovation, data and technology can drive positive change and accelerate progress towards our decarbonisation goals."
Graham Scanlon, Head of Critical National Infrastructure at Atos UK & I, noted the tool’s significant impact on efficiency and risk management, supporting National Grid's current and future operations amid shifting geopolitical landscapes and the climate change challenge.
Application of Triton in Network Planning
Triton's integration consolidates diverse datasets from Distribution Network Operators and Transmission Owners, automating complex processes and enabling precise scenario modeling. This functionality assists in recognizing where grid reinforcement or new infrastructure is necessary and evaluates future customer connections like data centers affecting regional capacity.
Moreover, Triton augments National Grid’s existing monitoring and engineering systems, accelerating model setup and allowing for rapid stress-testing of multiple network solutions. This enhances decision-making, ensuring more robust and adaptable future network recommendations.
Acknowledgement and Awards
For their pioneering work with Triton, National Grid and Atos have been awarded the Unlocking Data Award at the Utility Week Awards 2025. This accolade acknowledges their joint efforts in utilizing data to streamline operations, advance clean energy transitions, and enhance customer benefits.
Atos, a foremost provider of AI-powered digital transformation, has worked with National Grid to develop Triton, an innovative new Digital Twin and Data Visualization Tool that will revolutionize electricity infrastructure planning.
Future of electricity network
Triton will enable National Grid to accelerate how it plans the future electricity network and support the significant increase in energy demand required to achieve Great Britain’s decarbonization goals.
Triton is a new advanced visual platform that gives a clear view of how electricity demand is expected to grow across the network. By mapping future demand at grid supply points and transmission substations it provides vital long‑term insight to support planning and investment in the grid where it will be needed most.
What does Triton do
By creating a digital replica of National Grid’s physical infrastructure and designing Triton to process and manage this data, National Grid will be able to run network scenarios that significantly accelerate planning, reducing the time needed to analyze and decide on where to reinforce the network by 70%.
Owen Wilkes, Network Design Director at National Grid, said, “Triton demonstrates how innovation, data and technology can drive positive change and accelerate progress towards our decarbonisation goals. Through our collaboration with Atos we have created a product that will enable National Grid to virtually model scenarios for how, when and where we expand our network and services to meet increased demand for energy, ensuring we continue to deliver a resilient, future-ready electricity network.”
Graham Scanlon, Head of Critical National Infrastructure, Atos UK&I, said: “This tool will improve efficiency and remove risk for National Grid. They can now make smart data-based decisions quickly. We’re pleased to have been able to support both on their current operations and needs but also on their future business. We are continually innovating on how to use technology to meet the challenge of climate change and shifting geo-political winds.”
How Triton will be used
Triton consolidates thousands of datasets made available by Distribution Network Operators and Transmission Owners, automating complex processes and enabling scenario modelling. This helps to identify where reinforcement or new infrastructure will be required, and it could also support the assessment of future customer connections - such as data centres or embedded generation - on local and regional network capacity.
Triton also feeds directly into National Grid’s deeper monitoring and engineering tools, speeding up model configuration and enabling faster stress-testing of multiple network options to identify the strongest, most future-ready solutions.
Together, these features enable more informed and flexible decision-making and will support NGET’s recommendations of future network upgrades.
Recognition
National Grid and Atos have been named as the joint winners of the Unlocking Data Award at the Utility Week Awards 2025 for Triton.
The award highlights how the companies are going above and beyond in their use of data to drive efficiencies, speed up innovation, progress the clean energy transition and benefit customers.
