The document discusses how the power grid is evolving with new distributed energy resources, electric vehicle charging stations, smart homes, sensors, and more complex interactions that require new operational management approaches. It notes that data from these sources is increasing dramatically but challenges remain around data availability, security, and analyzing large quantities of non-standardized data. The document advocates applying data analytics and artificial intelligence to help utilities better model, monitor, and operate the grid through applications like load and generation profiling, forecasting, event detection, and control room assistance. It concludes the grid is undergoing the biggest change in over 100 years and that synergies between data and technology must be leveraged to help modernize grid operations.

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Wired for Intelligence
Unleashing AI and DA in Power Grid Management
Dr Vladan Krsman
Vice president – Grid Operations management business

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Power Grids since Nikola Tesla time
Safe and Sound with Predictable Behavior – Managing the Grid with Confidence
Predictable at all levels
• One-way energy flow
• Customer/load behaviors
• Proven operation patterns
• Deterministic rules
• Simple interactions
• Sensors in limited space
➢ Generation & transmission – high presence
➢ Distribution & homes – extremely low presence

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Changes of the last decade
Grid evolution is in a fast lane with a new horizon of impacts…
DERs
EV CS
Smart
Homes
Complex
Interactions
Sensors
IoT
Automation

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Changes of the Last Decade
… impacts that Grid operation management must embrace
DERs
EV CS
Smart
Homes
Complex
Interactions
Sensors
IoT
Automation
Operation patterns
✓ Time dimension
✓ More uncertain
Energy transition
✓ Grid importance dramatically increased
✓ Renewable energy
✓ Distributed energy (EVs, Solars)
DATA
“Who has the data has the power.”
– Tim O'Reilly
Accelerate automation
✓ Distribution grid under pressure
✓ 2nd gen of smart meters
✓ Sensors at home
✓ New IT systems in utility

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Data raise the expectations, but bringing new challenges
Powerful, but challenging & problematic…
Data problems
Data challenges
✓ Asynchronized
✓ Availability and fidelity
✓ Security & ownership
✓ Quantity is huge (20TB in 2020 →
1500TB in 2025), but not enough!
✓ Expectations are high, but not enough!
What the evolution mean from a data standpoint?
Engineer the data
Analyze the data
Train AI in tools and solutions

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Applying Data Analytics becomes basic expectation of utilities
Data-based insights at users’ fingerprint, learn from your data
DA ready - Leverage DA systems
• Automated export to the most used analytics systems
• Enable the use of data visualization tools
• Provide own analytic engine with use cases
• Collection of grid operations data
• Classification & validation to provide
relevant data for most common data
analytics use cases
Data engineering
• Able to create utility-tailored use cases
• Sell the data instead of kWh
Data as a service

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AI to enhance power grid modeling, monitoring & operations
AI everywhere is a paradigm, but how to turn it into reality?
Load & generation
Profile generation
Forecast
Major events
Damage Prediction
Storm preparedness
Estimate Time of Restoration
Control room operations
SCADA alarm resolution
Co-pilot assistance
Distributed energy
Planning through Geomap processing
Behind-the-meter discovery & modelling
*Load Flow, State estimator

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Concluding remarks
❖ Power systems are going through biggest change in last 100 years
❖ Future-proof power grid is the backbone of the sustainability
❖ Data gives power to optimize instead of rebuilding grid
❖ Grid is mission critical systems, data security & restriction will not go away
❖ Synergy between data and technology is a must! No self-serving machines!
❖ A lot of solutions DO NOT EXISTS today! Call for action!

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