VR Training for Electrical Utilities

Build and scale immersive VR training for electrical utilities use cases—no coding required—to help your crew learn faster and train safely.

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VR Training Content Creation for Electrical Utilities

Electrical utilities face evolving challenges like an aging workforce, new smart grid technologies, and strict safety standards. With Facilitate’s intuitive, no-code VR creation platform, your in-house L&D team and SMEs can quickly and easily create, customize, and launch VR training for various electrical utilities scenarios and achieve L&D goals.

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Safely Train on High-Risk & Hazardous Procedures

Practice on high-risk and critical procedures in a safe, virtual training environment without asset downtime.

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Reduce Cost of Expensive On-site Trainings

Reduce the cost of training by simulating expensive equipment or real-world scenarios.

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Train on Difficult to Replicate Scenarios and Rare Events

Train on infrequent but critical electrical utilities scenarios & events that are hard to stage in real life.

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Simplify Complex Procedures & Onboarding

Deliver accurate, step-by-step VR training for critical tasks and new team members.

Electrical Utilities Use Cases

Easily Create Engaging VR Training Modules for Your Use Case

High-Voltage Safety Procedures and Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)

Ensure correct application of critical safety procedures like LOTO in high-voltage environments.

With Facilitate, you can create:

  • 360 Media: Virtual tours of substations to identify hazards and LOTO points with interactive steps.
  • 3D Simulations: Risk-free, step-by-step practice of LOTO procedures on virtual equipment (e.g., switchgear).
Stay compliant and up-to-date with easily integrated, always-current safety training—no coding needed.

Complex Equipment Familiarization and Maintenance

Close skills gaps on new or complex equipment and deliver cost-effective maintenance training.

With Facilitate, you can create:

  • 360 Media: Interactive walkthroughs for exploring equipment components.

  • 3D Simulations: Virtual "disassembly" and "reassembly" for hands-on familiarization and routine tasks.

Accelerate your team’s adoption of new technologies while optimizing costs by minimizing equipment downtime and maximizing operational efficiency.

Emergency Response Scenarios

Train field crews and operators to make effective decisions and follow communication protocols during emergencies:

With Facilitate, you can create: 

  • 360 Media: Immersive scenarios depicting storm damage or equipment failure for issue identification.
  • 3D Simulations: Branched narratives for practicing control room and field responses during outages.
Boost readiness for critical incidents with customizable, no-code training tailored to your utility’s needs.

We Empower Your Team

Build and Scale Electrical Utilities Immersive Training Experiences In-House

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Learning & Development (L&D) Teams

Facilitate equips L&D teams with intuitive, no-code content creation tools that make designing, building, and deploying immersive VR training modules fast and seamless. Using the platform’s browser‑based interface, instructional designers can craft micro‑simulations, interactive 360° media, role-play scenarios, and more—without needing developer support.

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Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Facilitate empowers engineers, substation operators, safety officers, and maintenance technicians (the SMEs) to embed their hands‑on expertise—like LOTO protocols, equipment operations, and emergency response procedures—directly into the simulations. This ensures content is practical, accurate, and immediately applicable.

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IT Teams

For enterprise-level deployment, Facilitate will work with your IT team for initial setup, integration with existing Learning Management Systems (LMS), managing VR headsets, and addressing network or security considerations.

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Operations and Field Crews

Your field teams don’t build the VR content, but they’re absolutely vital. Facilitate partners with your crews to validate training simulations during pilots and beyond. Their hands‑on feedback ensures that scenarios—like equipment operation or emergency procedures—are authentic, practical, and continually refined.

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FAQ

Platform Capabilities & Content Creation

Facilitate’s VR creation platform allows you to create 360-degree image-based content and 3D model-based simulations. The 360-based content is ideal for location-based use cases and use cases where visual realism is very important. The 3D Microsimulations are ideal for use cases for hands-on interactions and procedural training. As an easy-to-use no-code platform, there is a limit to the level of simulation complexity that can be created, but most common energy and industrial use cases can be created with ease.

Yes, Facilitate is truly no-code. No Unity license is required. No coding at all is required. The interface is intuitive and involves a drag & drop level of complexity, enabling your SMEs (Facilitators, training and safety managers, engineers, trainers, etc.) to create and customize VR scenarios with minimal training and a short learning curve.

Yes, VR training offers several advantages over traditional methods. Immersive environments allow trainees to practice high-risk procedures and emergency responses without real-world danger. Studies show improved knowledge retention with VR compared to traditional methods, as learning by doing in an immersive setting significantly boosts retention rates. VR can also increase learner engagement and accelerate skill acquisition. Additionally, VR can simulate rare events that are impossible to drill in real life.

Yes, Facilitate is very user-friendly. The platform is intuitive and completely no-code, and it enables any Subject Matter Expert (SMEs) to create and customize VR scenarios with only basic onboarding training. Additionally, Facilitate supports computer-based access for learners who cannot or prefer not to use a VR headset, ensuring broad accessibility. This flexibility can accommodate different comfort levels with technology.

Facilitate offers comprehensive support options. You can access in-app chat and email support for technical issues. We also provide a dedicated customer success manager to assist you. Additionally, full onboarding and training for your internal teams are provided as standard. You will have support in both the technical aspects of the platform and the process of creating your training modules.

Our no-code tools significantly accelerate content development; both 360 imagery-based content and our 3D model-based content can be made in minutes to hours depending on complexity. Once created, content changes can be made at any time and are published globally and instantly across all deployed devices.

Absolutely, the Facilitate VR Creation Platform allows deep customization of scenarios to match your specific site layouts, equipment models, and internal operational procedures, ensuring highly relevant and effective training.

Absolutely, Facilitate allows deep customization of scenarios to match your specific site layouts, equipment models, and internal operational procedures, ensuring highly relevant and effective training. Facilitate's tools are specifically designed to allow you to create content which is 100% customized to your organization's needs.

Yes, Facilitate includes robust offline capabilities, allowing training content to be pre-downloaded and then accessed without any internet connection via VR headset. For collaborative training sessions with real-time audio and group viewing, all training experience content is downloaded before use to ensure no lag during 'live' training sessions.

Deployment, Hardware & Accessibility
Facilitate is currently compatible with the following VR headsets: Meta Quest range, HTC Vive range including the XR Elite, and PICO range.  Additionally, we offer a Windows computer-based access for learners who cannot use a VR headset, ensuring broad accessibility.
Facilitate currently offers a cloud based deployment option (Azure), with US, UK and AUS data storage locations. Contact us to discuss further needs such as on-premises hosting.
Facilitate’s VR Content Creation Platform features centralized user management and permissions via SSO login, allowing for scalable deployment and granular control over access rights across all your sites and training devices.
Security, Compliance & Integration

Facilitate is built with enterprise-grade security, and is accredited to the international standards: ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR. Data encryption is ensured at rest and in transit. The platform offers flexible deployment options based on a secure cloud-based solution (Azure), with US, UK and AUS data storage locations available. Reach out to our team for more information.

The Facilitate VR Creation Platform is designed for seamless integration with major LMS and HR platforms through the two major industry-standard protocols, SCORM and xAPI. This allows for learner data synchronization and tracking.

Facilitate provides data on content access, learner attempts, completion rates, time spent in content/each scene, pass/fail status, and question responses. All data is visible through an intuitive dashboard, exportable as CSV or can be sent to an LMS via xAPI or SCORM.

Yes, Facilitate enables multi-user VR sessions, ideal for collaborative or team-based training scenarios such as emergency response drills, allowing learners to interact within a shared virtual environment. Learners can communicate in real-time in a virtual classroom and collaboratively view the same content.
Absolutely, the Facilitate VR Creation Platform offers real-time instructor oversight tools, allowing an SME to observe learners, select content, provide voice guidance, and facilitate hybrid training models (VR + live debriefing).

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