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Aspern smart city grid to be modelled with digital twin

Smart Energy International

As part of its long running Aspern Smart City research demonstration, Siemens software is to develop a digital twin of its low voltage grid. The Aspern Smart City Research is located in Aspern Seestadt, a major residential and business future focussed urban development project in the northeast of Vienna.

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Sunrun is building Puerto Rico’s first virtual power plant

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Sunnova Energy said that only 59 of its 30,000 rooftop solar arrays required repair in the two weeks following Hurricane Fiona, which struck Puerto Rico in early September, causing widespread outages as the island’s electric power grid failed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. It said customers averaged 5.3