Energy Digital Magazine February 2024 | Page 90

PREDICTIVE AI

Armed with the firm belief that AI can drive better solutions for solar and wind systems , gas and oil producers , power grids and more , with Microsoft Azure , Microsoft champions how users can create cloud solutions to tackle challenges and prepare for the future .

Harnessing AI and data analytics can make clean energy more viable , says IBM . It has created the Clean Electrification Maturity Model ( CEMM ) in conjunction with the American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ), which provides a series of benchmarks to help utility companies measure the maturity of their clean electrification capabilities , set priorities for transformation and track their progress along the way .

AWS helps drive the adoption of generative AI across the energy industry by making it easy , practical , and costeffective for organisations to leverage it

across their businesses . Amazon Bedrock is a fully-managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications and provides organisations with an easy way to build and scale generative AI-based applications using foundation models ( FMs ).

There are many examples where Accenture has used AI in the energy sector ’ s favour . For example , Accenture uses an AI-driven database to help reduce electricity rates for Colonial Pipeline ’ s interstate system . Accenture also helps Duke Energy pioneer a first-of-its-kind , end-to-end methane emissions monitoring solution for methane gas reduction .

Intel AI aims to power the future of the energy industry . For example , it powers the Edge for Smart Secondary Substations ( E4S ) Alliance ’ s solution which modernises the energy grid by disrupting the existing system and helping it move from a proprietary , closed-hardware architecture to an open , flexible , software-defined energy system .

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