REN and R&D Nester contribute to build a framework for European the federation of the Digital Twins for energy in the TwinEU project. The TwinEU project funded by the Horizon Europe with 82 partners covering the majority of the European countries from Portugal to Bulgaria.

In this project, REN and R&D Nester participate in the developments related to cyber-physical grid resilience and smart coordinated planning of the grid.

In particular, R&D Nester leads the Portuguese pilot and the task concerning with the probabilistic-based cross-border capacity calculations and cross-border assessment of flexibility and prequalification. With the participation of REN, this task coordinates the implementation of the multi-area system dynamic behaviour assessment enabled by digital twin and the equivalent model for distribution grids, as well as the execution of the use cases on

- Probabilistic cross-border capacity allocation

- Cross-border assessment of flexibility and pre-qualification

- Enhancement of short-circuit models and TSO/DSO information exchange for operational planning

Furthermore, REN and R&D Nester contribute to task dealing with abnormal market participation detection and protocol activation for mitigating the risk and consequences, through the execution of the use case on

- The integration of TSO-DSO-MO-Prosumer and market coordination.

In September 17th, the TwinEU partners presented the mid-term results to the European Commission in Brussels. Following the presentation of the current policies to drive the digitalization and the application of artificial intelligence in the energy sector by the European Commission, the consortium presented the work progress: it is according to the plan. 

Namely the consortium finished the design of all 50 use cases and 5 Pan-EU scenarios were defined to demonstrate the applicability of the digital twins developed in the TwinEU project. Furthermore, the architecture to coordinate the federation of digital twins is also developed and the execution of tools and use cases are ongoing according to planned.

In particular, some tools already achieved the 1^st release stage, such as the Equivalent model for Distribution Grids from R&D Nester. A publication of the work developed in the Iberia pilot, which brings together the Spanish and Portuguese demonstrations, was published on the Enlit's library: Smarter grids, safer supply: Digital twins in the Iberian Peninsula | Enlit World.

The next steps of the project will focus on the next releases of the tools, development of the data space of the federation of the digital twins and the implementation and demonstration of the Use Cases.

For more information:

TwinEU Project @ R&D Nester website

TwinEU Project website

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101136119.