Session 2.3: Smart Infrastructure and Predictive Technologies

The integration of digital technologies into energy infrastructure is enabling a new generation of predictive and adaptive systems capable of detecting vulnerabilities before they cascade into failures. This session showcases practical applications of AI, IoT, blockchain, and advanced planning methods being deployed to monitor, manage, and strengthen energy systems in real time.

Presenters will demonstrate how AI-powered loss monitoring agents can provide near real-time visibility of aggregate technical and commercial losses across distribution networks and enable faster utility response; how blockchain-enabled microgrid systems can support community-centered distributed energy trading with automated billing and tamper-proof transaction records in areas with limited grid access; and how advanced power system planning methodologies can overcome the tendency of conventional models to underestimate investment needs for transmission, storage, and flexibility—a systematic bias that leads to under-built and less resilient grids.