One of the largest consortiums to date within the Horizon Europe framework with 75 partners has launch ed: TwinEU project kick ed off on 15-16 January 2024 to create a concept of the Pan EU digital twin of the electricity system
TwinEU is a flagship project for the implementation of the EU Action Plan: Digitalization of the Energy System.
Thus, it will leverage on a unique set of competences coming from grid and market operators, technology providers and research centres to create a concept of a Pan-European digital twin based on the federation of local twins so to enable a reliable, resilient, and safe operation of the infrastructure while facilitating new business models that will accelerate the reaching the European net-zero climate targets.
TwinEU will deliver a set of tools that will be demonstrated in 8 pilots across 11 EU countries, with the aim to ensure the replicability of the developed solutions in different geographical and market set ups testing a wide variety of use cases. This includes innovative tools and models for:
- improved physical and cyber grid resilience
- enhanced observability and controllability
- advanced forecasting for optimized market actions
- smart coordinated planning
TwinEU will validate the developed framework and facilitate common practice among system operators, technology providers and market parties. The digital twinning is approached on multiple layers throughout the demonstrations in the field. Most demonstrations prove the urgent necessity of digital twins, which replicate the real grid and energy market behaviour.
