The battery company Stella Futura is now launching their digital twin Libra – a virtual arena where the energy sector can meet and collaborate to jointly visualize, test and simulate different parts of our future energy system.
Stella Futura develops and operates battery systems for customers such as grid operators, industries, commercial properties and companies within energy production. In a few cases, the company is also the owner of the battery system and shares the battery's benefits with its customers. To increase the energy industry's understanding of these critical assets in a future energy system, the company has taken the initiative for a digital twin, Libra. One Reality creates virtual experiences for highly effective training and communication, and is now developing Libra in collaboration with Stella Futura. Here, One Reality combines previous experiences of interactive visualization with the use of digital twins.
"We want to spread knowledge about the benefits and role of batteries in the energy transition, and the importance of building a decentralized energy infrastructure in Sweden, which is largely centralized today. Our digital twin, the first of its kind, will play a crucial role in this," says Jonas Jonsson, business developer and founder of Stella Futura.
Libra will be important for pedagogically showing flows in the grid and how batteries can stabilize the grid as the share of renewable energy sources increases, creating flexibility and multiple benefits. Batteries contribute both to the company's own operations and the Swedish electricity market in general, which includes ancillary services for Svenska Kraftnät. Users will be given access to interesting market data, performance measurements of batteries (state of health) and in the future also forecasting of financial health of assets on various sites.
"Batteries are complex assets and here we want to share our knowledge and expertise in the field. With Libra, we can take part of data from the batteries in real time to be able to optimize utilization over time. Users will also be able to build on their own ecosystems linked to the energy supply at their respective sites, such as charging, and make analyses and design their own distributed energy systems," says Ulrika Tornerefelt, CEO and founder of Stella Futura.
Stella Futura's customers, partners, financiers and investors will have access to their own assets in Libra during the autumn through a streaming service. Most of Stella Futura's battery installations around Sweden are included in the digital twin, with the collaboration with Härjeåns Energi in Sveg comprising a 15 MW battery system being the largest. With the virtual infrastructure in Libra, it will also be possible to efficiently and in a short time produce various industry- and area specific virtual trainings.
Now Stella Futura wants to invite more players to establish their own destinations in the digital twin to creating benefit for their own bussinesses as well as shared value in the ongoing energy transition. The ambition is to create a unified tool for the entire energy industry where they jointly further develop and build an energy infrastructure for the future.
Get an insight into Stella Futura's digital twin Libra here.