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Digital Twins for Modern Power Utilities: From Asset Monitoring to Intelligent Grid Operations

Electric utilities are increasingly adopting Digital Twin technology to improve asset reliability, optimize maintenance, and support informed operational decision-making. By combining engineering models with real-time operational data, Digital Twins provide continuously updated representations of physical assets and grid processes that enable predictive maintenance, operational planning, and scenario analysis. Early utility deployments demonstrate measurable benefits in asset management, digital substations, and renewable energy integration. This article highlights practical applications, implementation lessons, and future opportunities for Digital Twins as utilities modernize transmission and distribution networks.

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One Grid

This section features strategic articles from CIGRE authors on technologies, practices, and innovations shaping the future power system as One Grid—an integrated end-to-end system across transmission and distribution. It also includes invited articles approved by the Electra Editorial Board, which may express opinions solely their own, to broaden perspectives on the technological evolution of the grid.

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