ThinkLabs AI Grid Digital Twin

ThinkLabs AI is a New York-headquartered company, spun out of GE Vernova, that builds physics-informed AI digital twins and agents for electric utilities and grid operators. It addresses slow, manual grid studies for planning, interconnection and operations as data center and electrification demand grows.

The platform builds a grid simulator from utility grid data, pre-trained and fine-tuned on synthetic power flow datasets. On top sit AI tasks such as 8760 transmission and distribution power flow, real-time state estimation and contingency management, and AI agents for planning, operations and model validation. Named customers and partners include Southern California Edison, Microsoft, NVIDIA and EPRI.

• AI digital twin: Physics-informed grid simulator built from grid data.
• AI tasks: 8760 power flow, real-time state estimation, dynamic operating envelopes and contingency management.
• Planning agents: Interconnection automation, capacity and flexibility planning, integrated resource planning.
• Operational agents: Operational planning, real-time copilot and distribution system operations.
• Model validation: Detects and corrects errors in grid models.
• Solution generation: Automated wires and non-wires alternatives.

A regional power company runs automated interconnection screening for rooftop and utility-scale solar applications. A grid planner evaluates data center connection requests across many circuits at once. A distribution utility validates and corrects its network model before storage and EV integration.

Runs time-series power flow studies in under 2.5 minutes across more than 100 circuits, compared with weeks for multi-year studies, according to the company. Reports over 99.8% accuracy for AI-based power flow. Interconnection studies in under 1 minute instead of months of manual work. Models 100% of lines, buses and nodes.

Data center and electrification load growth is stretching utility planning and interconnection queues, and AI-based simulation is emerging as a way to speed studies. Vietnam and Southeast Asia face rising peak demand and renewable integration, which raises interest in faster grid planning tools for the national grid operator and distribution utilities.

Spun out of GE Vernova; incorporated in Delaware with about 20 employees per BetaKit. Series A of $28M announced March 31, 2026, led by Energy Impact Partners with NVentures and Edison International. Member of EPRI Open Power AI Consortium.