Model and assess tomorrow’s electrical networks
As Southeast Asian countries accelerate their renewable energy transitions and enhance access to electricity, network planners need fast and flexible low voltage network modelling tools to ensure safety, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
Built on decades of network design experience, VisNet® Design enables connection providers and network operators to rapidly design and evaluate networks. Allowing for easy assessment and iteration and accelerating the speed between request and fully costed design. Trusted by over 550 planners across 19 companies, it is an essential tool for efficient and effective network planning.
Benefits
- Model new connections – solar panels, EV charge points etc. on existing electrical networks.
- Conduct cost and safety analyses of new connections using industry standard calculations.
- Minimal Training Requirements – Easy to use web application with minimal training required.
- Rapid Assessment – Quickly evaluate complex networks, reducing time from request to design.
- Centralised File Management – Access and manage saved models effortlessly.
- Easily model existing DNSP network as single line and load.
Features
- Rapid – easily models existing DNSP networks as single line and load.
- Easy to use – intuitive web application that works on a variety of devices.
- Cost effective – clear simple pricing model to meet a range of budgets.
- Map View Overlays – Network schematic and assessment results shown overlaid on a map view.
- Enterprise Version – Available with GIS data integration for enhanced planning.
- Automatic Updates – Easy deployment with automatic updates ensuring the latest features.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Compatibility & Integration
What file formats can I use with VisNet® Design?
VisNet® Design can save and import JSON files to share VisNet® Design network study files and import or save PDFs for site plans and reports. This flexibility ensures smooth collaboration and easy integration with your existing tools and teams.
User Suitability & Deployment
Is VisNet® Design suitable for both network businesses and contestable service providers?
Yes, VisNet® Design is purpose-built for electricity network operators and accredited connection providers, enabling fast, accurate and consistent LV network design and assessment.
What is the source of the map background on VisNet® Design?
VisNet® Design uses an interactive map powered by OpenStreetMap, providing comprehensive coverage across South-East Asia. The platform includes address search with autocomplete and supports PDF site plan overlays, giving designers instant geographic context and making LV network layouts faster and easier to build.
Network Design & Modelling
What types of networks can I model with VisNet® Design?
VisNet® Design supports full Low Voltage (LV) network modelling including transformers, feeders, mains and service cables, customers, and distributed generation. It accommodates single–, two–, and three–phase networks, both balanced and unbalanced, with support for both grouped and distributed connections. The platform is designed for star-configured radial network modelling, ensuring fast, reliable assessments for standard LV configurations. Interconnected networks can be designed using link box and fuse link open points. While meshed network modelling is not currently supported, it is included on the product roadmap.
Can VisNet® Design model Low Carbon Technologies like EV charge points, solar PV?
Yes, VisNet® Design includes built-in demand and generation profiles for EV charge points, heat pumps, solar PV or other generators, alongside standard domestic, commercial, and industrial profiles. These can be modelled as grouped or bulk connections, making it easy to assess how low carbon technologies (LCTs) will affect LV network performance.
Does VisNet® Design calculate voltage drop, rise, and utilisation on LV feeders?
Yes, VisNet® Design performs comprehensive Low Voltage (LV) network analysis, including voltage drop and rise, load flow, utilisation, impedance, and fault current calculations. It gives network designers a complete technical view of network performance, ensuring that designs are compliant, efficient, and reliable.
Can I run time-series or seasonal simulations on VisNet® Design?
Yes, VisNet® Design provides seasonal result views, allowing engineers to review summer, winter, or all-season conditions for voltage, current, and demand. This ensures designs are resilient and reliable year-round.
Does VisNet® Design include diversity factors or demand profiles for load modelling?
Yes, VisNet® Design includes built-in demand profiles and offers various demand type options for each type of customer. Load can be modelled to either include or exclude diversity effects for each customer, and to represent either a known maximum demand or an estimated annual consumption. Each load profile is based on real-life data and reflects realistic behaviour both across the day and across multiple seasons to enhance accuracy in network assessments.
Standards & Compliance
Does VisNet® Design comply with IEC or other recognised engineering standards?
Yes, VisNet® Design is built based on internationally recognised LV modelling and assessment methodologies, consistent with good engineering practice and aligned with key IEC principles. Its analytical approach has been reviewed and accepted by regulated electricity network operators internationally, ensuring assessments are robust, transparent and suitable for formal LV connection and design workflows.
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