Strategy & Planning

How AI Can Help the U.S. Power Grid

Meeting Rising Demand and Challenges

“Our team at SCE was awarded the 2024 Nikola Tesla Top Innovator Award in Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Waveform Anomaly Recognition (AWARE) – a software platform that uses AI and machine learning to improve detection and location of faults on the grid.”

Tapping Solar Power from the Darkness of Space

EPRI

“One out-of-this-world option is space, where the sun is always shining. The challenge lies in getting this space-based solar power safely and efficiently back to Earth. EPRI is always looking for ways to innovate as part of the energy transition, and we’ve begun monitoring SBSP research, and advances needed to enable this technology.

21st Century Energy Service Companies

NAESCO

“Normally, nonelected officials can’t obligate the public to a loan payment, but the enabling legislation allows them to do that, as long as the project is set up so there’s sufficient savings to cover the note payment, and the third-party ESCO guarantees that savings, such that the budget is never impacted.”

Delivering New Nuclear of Various Sizes

BWXT Advanced Tech.

“We’re focused on developing new systems. We see ourselves as a manufacturing corporation and that distinguishes us, as BWXT manufactures two to three nuclear reactors a year for the U.S. Navy. We also manufacture nuclear fuel and heavy components for the Canadian nuclear sector.”

Multiple Key Roles at New York PSC

New York PSC

“We constantly take on new challenges and opportunities, including achieving a clean electric grid by 2040, new regulatory models like utility thermal energy networks, and building out of the transmission system to meet the state’s goals.”

UK's Biggest Energy Provider with a Leg in North America

Octopus Energy

“The idea is technology and digitalization should be a deflationary force to enable better value and experience at the same time. We used to think to improve service, costs had to increase. But Amazon and Uber showed that dramatically better service can come with lower costs.”