Strategic investment will support Terragrit's continued growth and bring a faster, more accessible approach to testing operational decisions across the energy sector

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Terragrit, the leading AI platform for simulating changes to physical operations, today announced a strategic investment from National Grid Partners, the venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid (NYSE:NGG). The investment supports Terragrit's continued growth and deepens its work across energy and utilities, an industry where operational decisions carry higher stakes and less margin for error.

Utilities are managing infrastructure that is older, more interconnected, and under more pressure than at any point in recent decades. Demand is shifting faster than planning cycles can absorb, reliability expectations continue to rise, and the systems involved are complex enough that a change made to solve one problem can create another elsewhere in the network. Evaluating those tradeoffs has traditionally required specialized engineering tools, long development timelines, and technical expertise concentrated in a small number of teams, creating a bottleneck just as utilities need to move faster.

Terragrit addresses that challenge by giving teams a virtual sandbox where operational decisions can be built, tested, and compared before they're implemented in the field. Rather than functioning as a narrow simulation tool, the platform is designed as a collaborative decision-making environment: users construct a working representation of their operation, model a proposed change, and see how its effects move through the rest of the system, including capacity, resilience, cost, and sequencing implications. Because it doesn't require specialized engineering training, it puts that capability directly in the hands of the people who understand the operation, not just the specialists that legacy tools historically required. A utility facing a sudden demand spike, for example from a new data center, could use Terragrit to model options within minutes, such as upgrading a substation, adding a transmission line, or rerouting capacity. Each option's cost, timeline, and reliability tradeoffs can be compared before committing to one.