On Thursday 16 February, Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) announced that it has published a report titled Digital Twins, Model, Shadow, Twin – the case for policy use, setting out what digital twins are, the benefits of their use for policymakers, and some near-term use cases that the government and Ofgem could leverage to improve the policy processes in the energy sector.
Research found that while digital twins are increasingly used the operation of the energy system, they also offer an opportunity to build evidence and highlight the impacts of potential future policy decisions. Examples of use cases for digital twin technologies in policy work include simulating the energy system for national security scenarios; scenario building for different high-level goals, such as net zero; and testing options for optimising different outcomes in a net zero system.
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