Digital Twin + AI: Control Room of the Future [Slides]
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
The control room functions as the central brain of the grid, essential for balancing supply and demand and ensuring moment-to-moment grid reliability. Like the human brain, which processes sensory data to make decisions, control room operators analyze operational data from power generation, transmission, and distribution to make informed decisions. Currently, decision-making primarily rests with operators due to hardware and software limitations. However, with technological advancements, Digital Twins and AI are becoming high interest points in the control room's decision-making pilot programs. NREL is developing a comprehensive decision-making platform that integrates Digital Twins, AI, and advanced visualization techniques. As this integration progresses, the role of Digital Twins will evolve from conducting automated simulations to serving as a Trustworthy AI enabler, offering verification and validation of AI-generated response for power systems or providing physics-aware synthetic data of AI pre-training.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 2477382
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/PR--5D00-89725; MainId:90504; UUID:db0391d3-e6bd-489c-83c3-965c420ea7e2; MainAdminId:74189
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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