Can AI Save the Grid… from AI?

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Written By Alejandra Cruz

Source: Politico  |  By Blanca Begert, Alex Nieves, Tyler Katzenberger, Will McCarthy, and Wes Venteicher

Utility and energy professionals in California and beyond are acknowledging a paradox. On the one hand, they’re looking eagerly at how advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence can help them manage the grid, predict fires and outages and respond more flexibly as energy demand grows.

“We need to fix a broken system where there are no limits to how much PG&E can request in rate increases, and no limits to how much the CPUC can grant in rate increases,” Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, said in a statement.

 
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