2020 PES ISGT Europe 10/26 Panel Video: Digital Twin

The term "digital twin" is hot: An established method in avionics or automotive industry now enters new sectors, power systems being one of them. A digital twin represents some real (cyber/physical/social) system in a digital fashion. It can represent the past (forensics, analytics), the present (dashboard), or the future (predictive controls or maintenance, scenario optimization). Depending on the depth of the used models, it can give insights into hidden dynamics, risks, and optima. There are many situations and locations in the power system where digital twins can help: as decision support in the control room, embedded in a substation controller, as a planning tool, or on markets. This panel invites a group of experts, both from research and practice to confront the audience with the bare facts on digital twins in order to discuss their use and limits for power systems and smart grids. The panelists will pitch their propositions as thesis and antithesis, the audience will vote on that. After an interactive discussion with the audience, the vote is repeated, assessed, and summarized.