The power & utilities sector is adopting AI, robotics, and advanced technologies to optimize transformer operations. Innovations like digital twins and IIoT enable AI monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote inspections, enhancing grid efficiency and uninterrupted power supply. This report categorizes key innovation areas in power & utilities as emerging, accelerating, and maturing based on their rate of growth in innovation. It also casts light on transformer-related recent developments, deals, patent publications, real-world innovations, and market player insights. Examples of these innovations include CRG’s solid-state transformer with an embedded digital twin for predictive maintenance, and GE’s Linden variable frequency transformer (VFT) smart grid project. Patent research related to AI in transformers include interconnection topology, intelligent algorithms applied to power transformer monitoring data, and machine learning-based fault detection.
