Digital Twins: The New Shield Against El Niño’s Cascading Grid Threats

• Sommana Yan
• 24 May 2026

To combat the super El Niño looms for 2026, utility companies are now shifting away from traditional reactive repairs and toward proactive, data-driven resilience using Bentley Systems’ software. In 2025, utility companies are facing a dangerous new reality where weather disasters no longer happen in isolation. Modern power grids are increasingly vulnerable to cascading failures—where one event...