Panel: Digital Twins in Power Systems

As the energy sector advances toward federated and holistic digital twins, effective collaboration across grid operators, manufacturers, and software providers becomes essential. Grid operators play a pivotal role as system integrators, establishing the interfaces, standards, and quality frameworks needed to ensure interoperability and scalability. The discussion will explore why standardization, from reference architectures and asset identification to semantic models, is the foundation for connecting heterogeneous digital twins into a coherent ecosystem. Panelists will also examine how industry-wide cooperation, shared understanding, and a willingness to compromise can accelerate digital transformation while avoiding future integration challenges. Instead of waiting for the perfect federated digital twin, a can-do-mentality is necessary to establish digital twins as pivotal efficiency drivers in the power grids sector.