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What's new in 2026
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Visualize revisions.Understand changes instantly.
AI-powered modeling, analysis, and insights.
Secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready.
Stay compliant.Stay protected.
Deeper insight into real-world system behavior.
Enable clean energywith confidence.
From data to lifecycleintelligence.
Connect systems.Eliminate silos.
Move towards autonomous grid operations.
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User Experience
ETAP 2026 introduces 3D network visualization and a powerful Network Manager, transforming how engineers interact with power systems. From static diagrams to immersive, data-driven environments, workflows become faster, clearer, and more intuitive.
Provides new ways of interacting with your data and simulation results
Simplifies data edits to troubleshoot projects faster with matrix-style visualization
Make modifications directly in revisions
Identify an incorrect property entered in all motors. Update the value, drag it across all motors, and update all properties from a tabular view.
Early deployments show productivity gains of up to 20-30%, reducing time spent on modeling, analysis, and reporting.
AI & Intelligence
ETAP 2026 expands Electric AI Copilot and Autocomplete across the engineering lifecycle, helping teams search project data, modify one-line diagrams, analyze reports, generate PDFs, and access engineering-grade answers.
Searches, analyzes, reports, and modifies project data using natural-language commands.
Suggests elements and connections directly in the one-line diagram based on your existing network.
Keeps engineering data secure while delivering fast, trusted AI guidance from ETAP’s power-system knowledge base.
Cloud & Cybersecurity
ETAP 2026 introduces a fundamentally re-architected License Manager and over 30 cybersecurity enhancements with a hardened foundation and improved enterprise compatibility.
Simplified, secure, and always available.
Scalable, flexible, and built for modern teams.
ISO 27001-certified foundation and defense-in-depth architecture.
Distributed and global teams are supported by centralized and secure license governance with no hardware logistics and zero compromises on security.
In data centers with batteries, engineers achieve more accurate PPE selection, improving personal and equipment safety.
Safety & Protection
ETAP 2026 advances safety with full compliance to the latest standards, including NFPA 70E 2027, CSA Z462 2024, and EN 50110-1 2024. It also introduces transient DC arc flash modeling, moving from approximation to physics-based accuracy.
Improves safety analysis for data centers and BESS.
Support latest standards updates and faster batch processing.
Enhances differential relay modeling.
Addresses new NFPA 70E 2027 requirements
ETAP 2026 helps engineers validate protection schemes faster across complex electrical networks. Coordinate relays, breakers, fuses, and critical assets to improve selectivity, reduce miscoordination risk, and strengthen electrical safety with trusted, engineering-grade intelligence.
Fault Isolation verification in meshed networks and succeed/fail notifications
Clear coordination analysis with original and shifted TCC curve plots, applying breaker delays, fuse preloading, and time/current shift factors
PD settings deliverables with Excel-ready reports and datablocks
Multi-stage short circuit and protection & coordination evaluation
In a large-scale solar PV integration project, engineers can ensure that the existing power grid can handle fluctuating energy inputs without compromising stability.
Engineers can perform frequency response estimation and stability analysis directly from large-scale system simulations - without simplifying assumptions.
Dynamics & Transients
ETAP 2026 delivers advanced simulation of inverter-based systems, enabling accurate modeling of fast transients, frequency behavior, and system stability using real-world nonlinear models.
Estimates and analyzes of motor parameters from manufacturer data.
Supports control system design and tuning from time-domain simulations.
Provides comprehensive analysis of BESS and renewable systems.
Renewables and Grid Compliance
ETAP 2026 transforms renewable integration from a constraint-driven challenge into a data-driven opportunity. Move beyond simple voltage approximations to a multi-constraint engineering reality, ensuring grid stability while maximizing DER absorption.
Evaluates renewable capacity with protection and harmonics.
Optimizes Volt-VAR with CO2 intelligence.
Reduces and aggregates large networks.
Studies thermal limits across entire transmission path (IEEE 738/605/C57.91 & FERC Order 881).
Identify the true capacity by evaluating voltage rise, harmonic THD, and breaker ratings simultaneously to determine exactly what upgrades unlock more MW.
In industrial facilities, teams prioritize critical assets first, reducing downtime and compliance risks through system-driven maintenance insights.
Asset Management & Maintenance
ETAP 2026 integrates maintenance directly into the digital twin, enabling risk-based, system-aware asset management with real-time visibility into compliance and operational impact.
Records and tracks maintenance intervals to comply with NFPA 70B.
Provides local and mobile access to asset information.
Visualize, simulate, and manage electrical systems remotely from any device. Integrates monitoring, reporting, and scenario analysis.
Data Exchange & Interoperability
With DataX™, ETAP 2026 enables seamless integration across GIS, BIM, CAD, and legacy tools - automating model creation and eliminating weeks of manual data re-entry.
Scripts and studies automation enhancements to create a single-line diagram from Restful API.
Supports SKM V11, Revit 2025 & 2026, AutoCAD 2025 & 2026, CIM17-GIS, ESRI ArcMaps 10.8.2, CanecoBT and ERACS.
Adds 22 new elements, universal mapping, one-line view import/export.
Engineers migrating from legacy tools can convert full systems instantly, including diagrams and device mappings.
Automatically identify fault locations and execute optimized switching sequences to restore power to hospitals and essential services first, reducing outage times from hours to seconds.
Automations & Operations
The final frontier of the electrical digital twin is Operations. ETAP 2026 connects your physics-based, AI-powered model to the running power system. Automate decisions, response to disturbances in seconds, and prioritize critical loads with distribution management built for the modern grid.
Scales grid and power plant monitoring. Shows energized and de-energized feeders in real time.
Prioritizes critical loads and generates optimal switching sequences.
Provides real-time visibility into high-risk environments.
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Use a compact, scrollable feature rail to help power users scan new modules and enhancements quickly without overwhelming first-time visitors.
Engineer safety before risk becomes reality.
Advance arc flash, transient DC analysis, capacitor energy discharge, and protection-coordination to protect people and equipment with engineering-grade precision.
Model the real system and predict how it behaves.
Validate performance across dynamics, transient stability, frequency response, motor starting, renewable integration, and real-time operations.
Accelerate every engineering workflow.
AI Copilot, Network Manager, 3D visualization, automation APIs, DataX interoperability, and expanded libraries reduce manual effort and speed decisions.
Enable cleaner power with confidence.
Support higher renewable penetration through feeder hosting capacity, Volt-VAR optimization CO₂, BESS and DER analysis, grid-code dynamics, and time-series load flow.
Stay aligned with the latest standards and requirements.
Built-in support for current safety, maintenance, grid-code, and cybersecurity standards helps teams design and operate with confidence.
Discover how ETAP 2026 can transform engineering workflows, improve system reliability, and accelerate your energy transition with a more intelligent, connected, and secure platform.
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