
Editorial
Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation
@ARTICLE{10.4108/ew.14340, author={Xiaohua Zou}, title={Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web}, volume={13}, number={1}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={EW}, year={2026}, month={9}, keywords={digital twin, edge-cloud collaboration, energy regulation, state estimation, hierarchical decision-making, model predictive control}, doi={10.4108/ew.14340} }- Xiaohua Zou
Year: 2026
Edge-Cloud Collaborative Digital Twin and Hierarchical Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Low-Latency Energy Regulation
EW
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/ew.14340
Abstract
High penetrations of distributed energy resources require energy regulation that combines cloud-level global optimization with edge-level fast response. This paper proposes EC-HDT, a device-edge-cloud hierarchical digital twin in which a lightweight graph-attention-temporal-convolution estimator reconstructs local states under asynchronous, noisy, and missing measurements, while a cloud predictor and model predictive controller perform rolling economic optimization. A five-factor decision weight based on communication latency, information freshness, estimation confidence, operational risk, and edge computational load continuously allocates control authority between edge and cloud, and a quadratic-programming safety layer enforces physical constraints. On the IEEE 33-bus system, EC-HDT achieves a nodal-voltage MAE of 0.0076 p.u., mean/P95 end-to-end latencies of 56.4/89.4 ms, and a 99.2% control success rate; the daily operating cost is 3.51% lower than that of the fixed-fusion scheme. The results indicate that state-aware edge-cloud coordination can improve the latency-economy-safety trade-off in distribution-system regulation.
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