Artificial intelligence for the electricity grid of the future

Avanza, Spain's largest industrial research consortium for the application of artificial intelligence to electricity grids

During its first year of research, the IA4TES initiative, a tractor project in artificial intelligence applied to energy, focuses on technological aspects that respond to practical challenges: When should an algorithm be retrained to better predict performance in the operation and maintenance of an energy asset? If we have a digital twin of an energy asset, how do we clone it for another asset? What elements need to be deployed in the future distribution grid to ensure its optimal operation? How do we approach multi-objective optimisation while respecting the prosumer and system operator's vision?

These and other technological challenges of artificial intelligence are addressed in more than 50 use cases for renewable energy, electricity grids and new energy markets.

The IA4TES consortium met at TECNALIA's facilities

Iberdrola, Indra-Minsait and TECNALIA form part of the Steering Committee of the IA4TES project, led by Iberdrola. Nine start-ups and seven research actors are also participating in the initiative, including TECNALIA.

The annual follow-up meeting was recently held at TECNALIA's facilities. At this meeting, the consortium was able to visit the technology centre's facilities, where several demonstrations related to energy management, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence in electricity grids were carried out.

About IA4TES

The project envisages the application of artificial intelligence for renewable production, a smart grid, efficient consumption and enabling markets. IA4TES will promote the deployment of an efficient and sustainable electricity system, free from greenhouse gas emissions, with mostly renewable generation, a mix of centralised and distributed generation; with an automated and optimised grid, capable of providing bi-directional services to all types of users and interlocutors; with new services that facilitate the participation of users in new electricity consumption models; and with an optimised design of the different markets and innovative elements, such as energy storage.

IA4TES consolidates TECNALIA's commitment to research related to enabling technologies based on artificial intelligence, both in new advanced intelligence algorithms and in new paradigms of data governance and distributed data intelligence.