Trends and prospects for the introduction of digital technologies in the electric power industry
The article discusses a significance of the digitalization for the electric power industry, describes the main areas of application of digital technologies in the electricity engineering. It analyses such basic digital technologies in demand in the electric power industry as the industrial Internet of things, digital twins, automated observation and diagnostic systems, automated maintenance and repair systems, decision support systems, augmented reality systems, personal digital interfaces, blockchain and others. Possible options for using various digital technologies in the functional areas of management of electric power companies are considered. The article also discusses the main approaches to assessing the effectiveness of the introduction of digital technologies at the enterprises of the electric power complex, including economic and qualitative methods. It proposes the author’s approach to assessing the effectiveness on the basis of an integral assessment following the study of financial and non-financial factors of the effectiveness in the implementation of digital technologies.