Digital Days 2025: Control the network, manage the assets, trade the energy through the power of connection

The energy industry is at an inflection point. Electricity demand is skyrocketing as communities, data centers, and new applications consume power at unprecedented rates. At the same time, utilities face mounting challenges—from extreme weather and cybersecurity threats to aging infrastructure.

So, how do we keep the power flowing while delivering sustainable, secure, affordable, and accessible energy to all?

Innovation with Impact
At Digital Days 2025, Hitachi Energy’s flagship event for our enterprise software community, we unveiled a suite of innovations designed for utilities and energy-intensive organizations.

I was honored to take the main stage and showcase these new additions to our portfolio—solutions built to tackle complexity head-on and deliver greater value for our customers.

These innovations aren’t just about technology—they’re about impact. By combining cloud scalability, AI, and advanced analytics, Hitachi Energy is connecting utilities with solutions to:

• Improve grid reliability and resiliency
• Accelerate renewable integration
• Reduce operational risk and cost
• Enhance public and operational safety
• Extend asset life duration
• Make confident investment decisions

Together, we’re shaping a future where energy is secure, sustainable, and affordable for all.

The Power of Connection
Digitalization is no longer optional—it’s essential. Enterprise software plays a pivotal role in enabling efficient transmission, distribution, and management of electricity.

Hitachi Energy’s enterprise software portfolio—unmatched in breadth and depth—spans grid control, asset and field work management, energy planning, trading, and commodity management.

These applications harmonize grid operations, maximize asset life, and optimize energy investments.

Driving Innovation Through Collaboration
Hitachi Energy isn’t doing this alone. Strategic partnerships with Articul8, AWS, Bolo AI, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tomorrow.io, among other leading technology organizations, are accelerating innovation across the energy sector.

These collaborations unlock efficiencies, increase situational awareness, and create new value from data—connecting systems, people, and insights in ways that were previously unattainable.

Together, we’re building an ecosystem for co-creation, research, and commercialization that will define the future of electrification.

And at Digital Days, we are thrilled to share some first looks at work that we believe will open new possibilities for how we manage our assets, field work, and control rooms.

What’s New at Digital Days?
Our team introduced several new solutions to the portfolio designed to enhance grid resiliency, sustainability, and operational intelligence that:

• Launch Cloud-Native Asset Modeling: The new Asset Modeling software solution powered by the trusted PROMOD™ engine, brings production-grade, high-speed, scalable power market simulations to the cloud. Users can run thousands of parallel simulations directly from a browser—eliminating infrastructure constraints. For utilities, ISOs, developers, and planners, this means faster renewable asset development and more secure, resilient grid planning. Read this blog for more details.
• Supercharge wildfire defense with mobile vegetation management: Aging assets and climate change increase wildfire risks. Our enhanced vegetation management capabilities combine AI-driven risk modeling, satellite-based wildfire prediction, real-time monitoring, and mobile dispatch.
  The result? Lower wildfire risks. Improved public safety. And, better protection for critical energy infrastructure
• Enhance Asset Performance Management with advanced analytics: New enhancements to our APM empower utilities to extend asset life, prioritize interventions, and optimize maintenance with advanced modeling and analytics. Updates include:
  • APM Health: Advanced models for transformers, reclosers, voltage regulators, wood poles, vaults, and station batteries, with visualizations aligned to IEC 60599 and NERC PRC-005 standards.
  • APM Reliability and APM Optimization: Prescriptive recommendations, cumulative cost analysis, and low-code/no-code proforma modeling.
• Elevate proactive grid management with Network Manager WAMS: Real-time, grid-wide visibility is essential to grid resiliency and service continuity. Hitachi Energy’s Wide Area Monitoring System (WAMS) leverages high-frequency Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) data from the field in the control room for real-time grid operations. Integrated with Network Manager SCADA/EMS, WAMS empowers operators to detect disturbances before they escalate—delivering operational excellence.
• Set a new standard for predictable, scalable energy forecasting: Nostradamus AI delivers highly precise, transparent forecasts for solar and wind generation, load, and market pricing. Built with an intuitive wizard interface, it continuously learns, integrates seamlessly with existing systems, and scales to meet evolving needs.

Looking Ahead
A sincere thank you to our generous sponsors for making Digital Days a powerful event. Together with our customers and partners, we’re enabling a future where digitalization drives secure, sustainable, and affordable energy for everyone.

Missed Digital Days? The next opportunity to explore Hitachi Energy’s enterprise software portfolio will be at DTECH® 2026, the leading T&D event in San Diego. Join us as we continue to shape the future of electricity.