RT23 | Experience with Hypersim on developing Digital Twins of modern power grids

This presentation aims to share our experience with using OPAL-RT and Hypersim as an enabling technology for building a Digital Twin in the context of the HP2C-DT project. This project aims to develop an innovative power network Digital Twin (DT) concept, able to represent with a high degree of fidelity modern power systems in a wide variety of applications, such as transmission, distribution, generation, railway and industrial networks. Different definitions of DT can be found, but a common definition is that data flows between an existing physical object and a digital object, and they are fully integrated in both directions. Therefore, what is unique about DTs is the bi-directionality feature. The project is developing a High-precision High-Performance Computing-enabled DT (HP2C-DT) able to capture, with a high degree of fidelity, modern power network dynamics, in order to maximize their resilience and real-time performance, autonomously acting over the system in a locally distributed (edge) framework. Several tools are being developed based on the DT, such as A. online stability and interaction detection tools (avoid potential instabilities), B. Real-time network performance tools (optimize in real-time the performance of the network), C. Protection tools (adaptive protection based on real-time measurements), D. Probabilistic scenario generation tools (analysis of multiple time-scale scenarios, for preventive decisions) and E. Autonomous real-time control tools (DT autonomous decisions over the power network in closed-loop). The presentation will show our experience with Hypersim on creating the Digital Twins of power grids.