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Generative Design of Power Plants

Exploring thousands of feasible design scenarios to maximize energy yield, reduce civil works and optimize CAPEX, constructability and environmental impact
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Traditional plant design approaches limit the ability to explore optimal configurations, relying on manual iterations and constrained scenarios. This leads to suboptimal layouts, higher costs, and reduced efficiency, especially in increasingly complex environments where energy yield, terrain, weather conditions, grid access, and regulatory constraints must be considered simultaneously
Why generative design of power plants?
Generative design applies optimization algorithms, engineering rules and data models to automatically generate, evaluate and compare multiple feasible plant configurations

For solar, wind, hybrid and storage projects, Generative Design can combine multiple data sources and variables — such as GIS, topography, meteorological, grid, geotechnical, environmental and cost — to identify the best trade-offs between energy production, CAPEX, constructability, permitting risk and long-term performance

Key benefits
Enhancing plant performance and cost efficiency through automated design exploration and scenario optimization.
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Higher energy yield and better layout performance

Optimizes turbine, panel, inverter, road, cabling and substation configurations according to resource, terrain and technical constraints

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Reduced CAPEX and civil works requirements

Minimizes earthworks, access roads, cabling, foundations and infrastructure needs by evaluating design-to-cost alternatives early.

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Improved management of constraints and risks

Incorporates land, environmental, geotechnical, grid, permitting and constructability constraints into the design process

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Faster design iterations and better trade-off decisions

Automates scenario generation and comparison, enabling teams to evaluate more alternatives in less time

How NTT DATA helps

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Generative design strategy and use case definition

Identifies where generative design can create most value across solar, wind, hybrid and storage projects, from early-stage development to detailed engineering

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Development of optimization engines and design rules

Builds algorithms that generate feasible layouts based on technical, environmental, regulatory, cost and constructability constraints

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Integration with GIS, BIM and engineering tools

Builds algorithms that generate feasible layouts based on technical, environmental, regulatory, cost and constructability constraints

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Scenario simulation and decision support

Simulates energy yield, CAPEX, OPEX, carbon impact, permitting risk and construction complexity to compare design alternatives

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Governance, adoption and industrialization

Defines methodologies, roles, data standards and operating models to embed generative design into engineering and development processes

Governance and continuous optimization
Proven impact
From manual iterations to optimized design scenarios

NTT DATA helps renewable energy companies transform plant design into a faster, more analytical and value-driven process. By combining engineering expertise, spatial data and optimization algorithms, organizations can evaluate more alternatives, select better trade-offs and reduce design, cost and construction risks before execution starts

Results that matter
Delivering optimized plant designs that increase energy performance, reduce construction effort, and accelerate decision-making:
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Higher expected energy yield

Selection of layouts that better capture available solar or wind resource while considering real technical and environmental constraints

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Lower CAPEX and civil works exposure

Reduction of unnecessary earthworks, cabling, roads, foundations and infrastructure through optimized spatial design

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Shorter design cycles and faster project development

Automated scenario generation and comparison to accelerate early-stage design and engineering decisions

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Better investment decisions through scenario comparison

Clear evaluation of trade-offs between energy production, cost, constructability, permitting risk and long-term performance

Design better renewable plants

Explore more scenarios, optimize trade-offs and improve project value from the earliest design decisions

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