How much is enough? That’s so often the central question for those considering investments in our national defense. Along with secondary questions of nearly equal importance, such as, should we invest in this particular defense program? Or that one instead?

For more than a decade, EPRI has been studying AI and its potential impacts on the energy sector, and in the last six years, the Institute has accelerated its activities around AI and data science. To date, EPRI has been involved in more than 75 projects related to AI applications in the energy sector.

At the core of this transformation are the utility IT systems, which have historically focused on administrative support, customer billing, and essential network management. To support Grid Mod, these systems must be significantly upgraded.

This year’s GEF, more than any previous forum, will promote systems thinking to understand the vast opportunities available when we take an economy-wide approach to the clean energy transition.

“Here, the focus is on the high-voltage transmission infrastructure of one hundred thirty-two kilovolts and above, from an unfortunately overlooked perspective, that of the customers and ratepayers who will pay the bill.”

This annual meeting of Veterans in Energy brings together military vets from every corner of the country, from dozens of energy utilities and companies, and from every service: Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force.

“We bring in processes and techniques that let us go through an area of concern, evaluate pole by pole, and make a determination of what is the likelihood of that pole being compromised by this storm or not targeting the invest.”