UBITECH ENERGY participates at the kick-off meeting hosted by Fraunhofer (January 15 & 16, 2024) in Brussels, Belgium of the TwinEU Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2024. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101136119) and spans on the period January 2024 – December 2026. TwinEU will leverage a unique set of competences coming from grid and market operators, technology providers and research centres to create a concept of 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 deployment of renewable energy sources in Europe.
TwinEU will define a set of appropriate interfaces and API to relevant technological building blocks and components to fully support a variety of different DT applications, which may eventually be also used by third party. Alignment with ongoing effort in BRIDGE (DERA v3.0) and with SGAM model and with EU-level IDSA and GAIA-X Data Space Architectures will be carried out in a bidirectional way. TwinEU will leverage on H2020 OneNet and HE ENERSHARE to design and implement a federated DT ecosystem and underlying infrastructure, which will consists of a choreography of closed loop DTs instances, each of them provided with the capability to 1) synchronize with real assets by bidirectional data exchange, 2) self learn dynamically the real context and accordingly take autonomous decisions based on online AI edge and reduced-order physical models and self-evolve the model itself to better represent the real asset, 3) define the appropriate scale, granularity and space resolution, 4) makes use of Model-to-Data (M2D)-driven Federated Learning to enable a decentralized edge-level model learning for effective privacy- and confidentiality management trading off latency versus computational resources.
UBITECH ENERGY undertakes the technical and scientific coordination of the TwinEU project. Moreover, UBITECH ENERGY aims to clearly sketch the landscape of the digitalisation challenges and opportunities for the grid and markets operation, analysing the achievements so far in data interoperability and in System Operators and market party coordination, as well as to define the cyber-physical nature of the pan-European grid for achieving resilience, efficiency, and clean energy penetration.
Last but not least, UBITECH ENERGY realizes the Big Data management dimension of the TwinEU for batch and real-time data ingestion, management and curation while designing and delivering the respective data collection services bundle. Also, UBITECH ENERGY connects the AI technologies of TwinEU addressing data driven challenges (i.e., demand/generation forecasting, behavioural analytics, elasticity profiling and forecasting) and enables service, data, and models discoverability for the orchestration of data space ecosystem instantiated for the interoperation of the local DTs and the pan-European view – evolving the IDSA compliant Federated Catalogue into the implementation of Services Workbench that will act as the mediator for the utilization of open services.
