San Diego Convention Center

2025 Technical Conference Sessions

Digital Twin – Identifying and funding use cases

25 Mar 2025
C3
Grid Modernization

How do you build platforms for enterprise at scale and not one-off project solutions? The future of grid calls for one such investment which is a digital twin. How does an enterprise digital twin (an asset that integrates distribution, transmission, and customer) allow you to start small yet build an asset for enterprise that continuously and progressively unlocks business value & ROI as more use cases are enabled on it. How do you build this with strategic technology mindset?  
 
In this session, you will learn an approach that has yielded results, the lessons learned, and the changes we had to undertake, our successes and failures towards building a strong Digital Twin foundation for emerging Digital Grid. We will cover several areas including but not limited to investment planning, technology identification, scaling, organizational alignment, and some of the use cases themselves.  

Chairperson
Junhui Zhao
Junhui Zhao, Manager of Transmission and Substation Data Innovation - Eversource Energy
Speakers
Marcus Johansson
Marcus Johansson, Director, IT, Advanced Grid - Xcel Energy
Subbu Natarajan
Subbu Natarajan, Partner/Principal - EY