Eplan: Your energy and power partner

Standardizing and automating power engineering across the asset lifecycle.

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Modernizing the power grid to meet growing demand

Across the United States, utilities are facing unprecedented pressure to design and build new substations, upgrade aging infrastructure, and maintain system reliability while managing workforce constraints and rising project complexity.

Delivering these projects faster requires a standardized and data-driven approach to engineering. Standardized designs, digital workflows, and consistent data across engineering, manufacturing, and operations allow utilities and engineering partners to execute projects more efficiently and at scale. This is where Eplan provides value. 

We bring software and engineering expertise that connects utilities, EPC firms, panel builders, and equipment manufacturers within a unified digital ecosystem.

Delivering value across the entire project lifecycle

Eplan solutions enable engineering data to be used consistently across every phase of a power infrastructure project, from early planning to long-term operation.

  1. During project planning and design phases, Eplan’s standardized templates and digital system models help engineering teams quickly develop and reuse substation designs while maintaining compliance with utility standards.

  2. During procurement, Eplan Electrical P8’s automated bill of materials generation and integrated supplier data streamline purchasing processes and reduce manual effort.

  3. During manufacturing and panel assembly, precise, automatically generated documentation and digital workflows provided through Eplan’s integrated systems improve accuracy and efficiency on the shop floor.

  4. Once systems are installed, complete and up-to-date project documentation is available through Eplan’s  Collaboration Apps: Data management and Project viewer to support maintenance, troubleshooting, and future system upgrades.

In short, Eplan provides a consistent digital engineering environment that utilities and their partners rely on to improve collaboration across engineering teams, suppliers, manufacturers, and field personnel.

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Major challenges – specific concerns

Would you like to find out just how convincing our solutions are or do you have questions about them? Then get in touch with us – we’re happy to help you!

Adrian Melendez  – Vertical Market Manager Energy – is responsible for our clients in the energy sector.

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Proven results. Real impact.

“For me, data quality means ensuring reliability—reliability in the data and thus also in the safe operation of our systems.“

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Illwerke VKW story

“Eplan provides us with a global infrastructure for establishing standards for all our branch offices. All locations—whether in Europe, Asia, or America—can therefore use shared data and work with the same standard.”

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Andritz Hydro story

“Around 40 developers across multiple sites carry out cloud-based engineering work using Eplan – and they are highly satisfied with the infrastructure, operation and responsiveness.” 

“We’ve discovered that no other tool can be learned as quickly and is so intuitive to use as Harness proD, and the connection to Electric P8 offers so many advantages that we wouldn’t want to do without it.”

Voltabox story

“After the first project phase – the preliminary planning – we see considerable time savings during the actual conversion of the transformer substations. What’s more, that applies to every project.”

"We also wanted to reduce manual, repetitive work and we were able to reduce engineering time considerably. In some areas, the time spent on engineering has halved".

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Building the next generation of power infrastructure with standardized engineering

Eplan supports every stage and step of infrastructure implementation, from planning to procurement, building, and maintenance.

Our industry landscape

Find out how Eplan tools can assist you in your industry. 

Your added value with Eplan in the energy sector

We make the “new system project” even faster

We rely on standards and digitalization. Working with this philosophy simply accelerates processes. Project implementation becomes faster through standardization and (partial) automation. Thanks to high-quality data and web configurators, ordering takes less time. Training new employees can be completed more quickly with state-of-the-art software. And other processes are also faster because they run more smoothly.

You can count on us

Our certified software and hardware meet international norms and standards. Your supply chain is secure with us, for reliable expansion. For instance, Eplan Cloud solutions fulfill critical infrastructure requirements and have valid certifications.

In addition, our business model is more than dependable: Eplan and Rittal belong to the Friedhelm Loh Group, which is managed as a foundation. We will, therefore, continue to support you in the future.

We promote exceptional cooperation

We ensure that you can cooperate and collaborate all the time and from anywhere in the world. For more transparency throughout the entire process, collaboration is even possible across companies in the cloud.

Despite our broad product portfolio, our customers have one point of contact. If optimization is required, the experts from Eplan Consulting can help.

Our experience creates synergies

Standardization and modularity make it possible for you to react quickly to high demands on the market. Leading to more profitability in the energy transition. The synergies between Eplan and Rittal further mean comparatively low production costs. Rittal’s series products are available around the world. The company has extensive expertise in industrializing processes globally and across industries.

Standardisation based on industrial models

The benefits of standardisation in the energy sector are clear. Incidentally, these are the principles that industrial companies also work by – with the efficient planning, design and manufacturing of a large number of standardized systems with many variants. This enables companies in the energy sector to manage the expansion of their infrastructure.

Our solutions are developed based on the highest security standards. For instance, Eplan software products are certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and thus meet the requirements for documented information security management systems.

Everyone works together with the solutions from Eplan and Rittal

A foundation is required in which everyone involved in planning and design can exchange information. Eplan Cloud is such a solution – and the products from Rittal are already integrated into it. The software from Eplan helps to advance the expansion of grids and decentralized energy systems. Data is used consistently from the start to the finish in engineering as well as in the design and manufacturing process.

We’re networking the energy ecosystem with these integrated solutions.

Eplan and Rittal are setting the pace with these solutions

Our products and solutions standardize and automate work steps – to increase the tempo.

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Eplan Electric P8

Electrical engineering planning during construction and operations

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Eplan Data Portal
Eplan Data Portal

Keeping the overview through consistency

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Eplan Preplanning
Eplan Preplanning

Clear and structured data right from the start

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Automated Project Generation
Automated Project Generation

Generate schematics automatically

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Project viewer
Project viewer

Implement digital review processes in engineering

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Rittal Solutions

Rittal is committed to delivering to the energy industry a tailored product range

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Easy getting started and clever project planning with the Eplan Engineering Standard

We promised to make your work with Eplan software even easier. To fulfil this promise right from the start, we support you with the Eplan Engineering Standard. It contains useful templates and examples that you can use in various phases of project work, meaning your planning and design use a standardized foundation of data.

For the energy sector, we offer a template of a transformer station for downloading. The provided project demonstrates systematic and standardized planning for energy technology. We also provide sample data for the design of an AC combiner in photovoltaic systems.*

*Requirement: Eplan ID connected to your company organization.

Grid expansion

Eplan also have the right solutions for grid operators. Using software as an example, Eplan Electric P8 has been available to companies in the energy sector for some time now for planning new facilities or converting existing ones.

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Efficient expansion of the energy landscape

You also benefit from our solutions in decentralized energy systems: Planners and operators of systems for the generation, storage and distribution of renewable energies design faster with Eplan.

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