As the world accelerates toward a net-zero future, next-generation infrastructure demands smarter, more resilient solutions. Digital twin technology and business automation – SPEED’s core value proposition – are becoming indispensable across emerging green energy and circularity sectors including:
- Hydrogen production,
- Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS),
- Sustainable aviation fuel,
- Power-to-X,
- Advanced plastic recycling and circular economy systems,
- Long duration energy storage e.g. liquid air.
These complex systems require design and operational intelligence that goes beyond traditional engineering. That’s where digital transformation delivers outsized returns.
Thomas Process and Digital Twin Services (TPDTS) is developing Single Point Entry Engineering Design – SPEED – to meet a complex market need.
- Business automation to increase productivity and improve compliance.
- Engineering platform as a service to automatically create digital twins so businesses and investors can identify the most viable energy transition projects for maximum returns.
- Fundamental data structures for AI training and AI agent deployment to integrate and manage data driven digital twin models in supply chain so that customers can create and leverage new value propositions like data-as-a-service.
A Multi-Billion Dollar Market on the Rise
| Sector | 2024 Market Size Estimate | Projected Growth (CAGR) | Opportunity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrogen Digital Twins | ~$1.45 billion | ~31.5% (2025–2033) | Lower levelised cost of hydrogen (LCOH), optimize plant design |
| CCUS Automation & Twins | ~$300–500 million (est.) | High double digits | Lifecycle modelling, capture optimization |
| SAF Digital Integration | Emerging | Fast growth tied to H₂/CO₂ infrastructure | Operational efficiency & emissions traceability |
| LAES Automation | Nascent | Early-stage growth | Performance modelling for grid-scale storage |
| Plastic Recycling Twins | Early-stage | Rapid regulatory push | Quality control, emissions tracking, circularity |
Why Digital Twin + Automation?
Green industrial systems are complex, capital-intensive, and sensitive to fluctuating feedstocks and policy shifts. Traditional engineering tools can’t deliver the agility, precision, and predictive insight needed at scale.
Delivering capital projects within time and budget is based on long established work flows and principles. Operating companies, engineering service providers and OEMs use a software tools from the arcane but reliable to the latest trend following, dashboard filled interfaces across the asset life cycle. Many of the tools are interoperable and have some quite spectacular capabilities but require specialist knowledge to use.
The modern engineer now has to build on his or her learned engineering principles from higher education, be familiar with a raft of changing industrial codes and standards across multiple geographies, understand umpteen typical software interfaces on typical applications as well as competently using AI tools and agents to deliver an asset underpinned with a robust auditable design, that is safe, has the smallest practicable environmental footprint for scope 1,2 and 3 emissions AND deliver value across a 25+ year asset life (whilst maintaining a coherent work/life balance). This is no small task.
Our people centric, tech driven approach enables:
- Improved productivity through business process modelling in design and plant operation.
- An engineering platform that facilitates different business models for design houses, chemical technology licensors and operators.
- Early design optimisation (CAPEX and OPEX) that minimises business risk and supports final investment decisions for projects.
- Real-time operational insight with dynamic system modelling to ensure an industrial asset is always at its optimal efficiency and within its design envelope.
- Prescriptive maintenance maximising plant uptime
- Integration with AI/ML for autonomous performance improvement
- Compliance tracking and lifecycle emissions accounting
Strategic Positioning
SPEED brings together deep domain knowledge in process industries with cutting-edge digital twin and automation capabilities—uniquely positioned to serve the needs of the green energy sectors above.
As global investments in clean technologies surge past $1 trillion annually, investors are looking for platforms that not only enable sustainability but also de-risk capital deployment and accelerate time-to-market.
? The Opportunity
We are at the inflection point where digital meets green energy and circularity. Our technology platform, SPEED, sits at the centre of this transformation—empowering asset developers, operators, and investors to realize the full potential of green and circular infrastructure through automation, intelligence, and resilience.
Join us in building the engineering platform that supports a viable energy transition and contribute to the net-zero economy.