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The embracing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the energy industry is powering innovations and helping develop the future smart grid.
FREMONT, CA: The energy sector has long been conscious of the power of AI(Artificial intelligence), with its applications extending beyond the regular conventional use cases. AI has seen numerous years of exponential development with the abundance of data and a huge reduction in the cost of computing power.
Globally, AI experts are working together to find real-world applications for it. The energy zone is an ideal case to see how this happens. Many conventional ways of working in the energy industry are ripe for an advanced AI intervention. It presents a chance to grab quality service and enhance customer satisfaction. Here are numerous ways AI is being applied to the energy industry.
• Control Room and Network Planning
The entire power sector is harnessing only a small fraction of data currently. Since it requires specific expertise to consume and gain data insights. Latest innovations in neural learning have nurtured new classes of value-added business applications, and the energy industry has realized the need to leverage its data.
For example, experts in the industry believe that AI could be used in decision-making in control rooms and network planning. Also, deep learning leverages utility data and external data to expect outages and deploy response teams to fix power and predict system maintenance quickly. This way can drive faster disaster recovery and better management and reduces cost.
• Smart Grids
With grids gathering energy from various sources, operating these systems has become more complex. AI's ability to analyze massive datasets can obtain stability and efficiency to these new information sources stability and efficiency.
Additionally, programming the network with past data on power fluctuations and weak spots on the grid can create the new autonomous grid more seamless and respond to significant events on its own. With AI, smart grids can better handle different energy sources at once.
• Energy Consumption
By monitoring consumers' energy consumption behaviour, AI offers a solution to improve power usage. For example, smart thermostats adapt to user behaviour to decrease energy consumption.
Once installed, it starts learning the habits of consumers and adjusts the temperature accordingly. In addition, machine learning technology can be adopted to forecast atmospheric conditions and climate, comprising the amount of energy generated by the power plants.
• Energy Storage
As energy storage capacity rises and technological innovations emerge, AI is helping make usage more efficient. For example, AI can map out energy usage and allow customers to track fluctuations in energy rates to more efficiently use storage.
AI powers this rise of the intelligent energy system to ensure that energy sources reach their full potential and are the best method for the energy sector and consumers. Along with other technologies such as big data, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT), energy storage with AI can play an important role in power grid management by enhancing the accessibility of power sources.
For those providers who search to influence the future of utilities, the interface between AI and energy is an excellent start. Their synergy can alter the world and open up opportunities while improving sustainability.
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