• The next CRC meeting in 4D grids will be held in person at Universitè Laval

• 19 & 20 September

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In the sequel of the 2005 Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emission based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO 2 emissions are driving it, several studies were published concerning the technology pathways for decarbonization at least cost.

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The phenomenon the grid is presently undergoing is considered a transformation and not a change as a change usually refers to a stand-alone innovation, a particular initiative, while a transformation is across the industry as a whole.

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted that the U.S. power grid will host more than 56.1 GW of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity during 2023, the largest amount of added capacity since 2002. However, behind this headline, the real news is that in 2023 more than half (52%) of the capacity additions will be solar, followed by battery storage at 17%. The case of storage is interesting. In 2023, the U.S. battery capacity more than doubled in sized compared to 2022. Yet, the EIA has forecasted that it will likely be doubled in size in 2024, to reach about 30 GW in capacity.

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The digital twin concept has been around for a while—as early as 2002, according to Wikipedia and the authors in this issue. However, my first encounter with this concept was just about five or six years ago. Around that time, Gartner reported the entering of digital twins into mainstream use: 75% of companies implementing the Internet of Things were already using digital twins or planned to within a year. My organization was contemplating digital twins as an enabling technology for grid modernization. During the process of road mapping the strategic innovation, we were asked how/where to position and prioritize this emerging research field in the transmission portfolio. We had two camps: networks versus assets. In the end, upper management, advised probably by consulting firms, such as McKinsey or Gartner, assigned the digital twin track to the asset group and excluded it from network research activities. Applying the digital twin buzzword to “networks” was deemed an abuse of language—a source of confusion in use case definitions and business value analyses of digital twins.