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Digital twins: from buzzword to balance sheet

How a virtual copy of a port, plant or grid pays for itself in its first year.

ssayful7 September 2026 · 1 min read

How a virtual copy of a port, plant or grid pays for itself in its first year. Our engineers share what they have learned on hundreds of projects.

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The technology exists. The constraints are permits, supply chains, skills and the way projects are financed. Solving them needs engineers, governments and investors at the same table from the start.

  • Plan the whole system, not single projects
  • Standardise designs to build faster and cheaper
  • Use data from operating assets to design the next ones
  • Train people early — skills are the real bottleneck

The fastest project is the one that was planned properly.

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