Panayiotis Moutis
November 2021
It might have started more than a year ago, but I have still not found the words to describe my immense excitement and my unwavering enthusiasm for my research collaboration with X, the moonshot factory of Google! Last April, Astro Teller (X’s Captain of Moonshots) and Audrey Zibelman (X’s VP & previously AEMO‘s CEO), blogged here and here, respectively, about why the decarbonization of the electrical grid needs a moonshot. By developing the digital twin of the grid, the Tapestry moonshot aims to enable power system monitoring at unprecedented granularity and unlock control response to sub-second electrical phenomena. As slower conventional units are gradually displaced by fast acting renewables and storage systems, the Tapestry vision is exactly where the electrical grid is heading…
I have been involved in the efforts for the design of the digital twin of the grid (my previous work here) as also how that can feed into robust, fast and efficient control of the power system and its assets (past works here & here). In this tremendous journey, I have been working and getting to meet with really smart people at X; great electrical grid thinkers, tremendous power electronics engineers and extremely skilled and resourceful software engineers. I have to thank the CMU Office of Sponsored Research and the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation for supporting me in every step of the way in this collaboration!
Stay tuned for upcoming updates on my efforts with X!