Digital Twin Technology and Smart Grid

The integration of Digital Twin (DT) technology with Smart Grids (SG) represents a groundbreaking development in energy management, making this a highly significant and timely topic. As urban areas expand and energy demands rise, the need for more efficient, sustainable, and resilient energy systems becomes critical. DT technology, with its ability to create real-time, virtual replicas of physical systems, offers unprecedented opportunities for enhancing the performance, reliability, and security of smart grids. As the global energy landscape moves toward greater sustainability and decentralization, digital twins present unprecedented opportunities to enhance grid efficiency, bolster resilience, and support the integration of renewable energy sources. Digital Twin Technology and Smart Grid explores the intersection of these two technologies, which are essential for the evolution of energy systems. It explains how it utilises intelligent wireless sensor networks, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, edge and fog-computing to monitor power consumption, to bring efficiencies and sustainability to our industry and human lives. It discusses how the the security risks and privacy challenges can be accommodated, and explains the ethical/legal implications of collecting data on a massive scale.

• Explains how digital twins gather real world data to create a model of a given situation of real micro grid/power grid
• Discusses how that model can then be utilized in the making of informed decisions about that situation
• Considers the associated technologies that support digital twins: IoT, AI, ML, blockchain
• Explores how digital twins can be used in the real world to monitor and improve services of micro grid/power grid