Mitsubishi Heavy Industries BrandVoice: 4 Ways AI Is Accelerating The Energy Transition

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries BrandVoice: 4 Ways AI Is Accelerating The Energy Transition

By Johnny Wood

AI is transforming the way power is generated.

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Artificial Intelligence can process our world in minute digital detail. As you read this, data-crunching algorithms and machine learning systems are monitoring, processing and reimagining how things work.

While it might not be the first industry one thinks of when considering how AI affects our world, the energy sector does employ machine learning for a wide range of functions: Sensor-connected power plants, wind turbines that speak to each other and smart grids balancing electricity supply and demand all operate in different corners of the globe today.

Increasingly, AI is playing a pivotal role in enabling greater use of sustainable forms of power generation, while at the same time ensuring energy supplies are abundant and affordable to meet growing global demand.

Here are a few ways that AI is steering the energy transition towards meeting these goals, enabling a lower-carbon future for power generation.

1. Intelligent wind power

The rise of renewables has made wind turbines a common sight in many places, both on land and offshore. Add AI into the mix, and a wind farm's turbines can communicate with each other to generate more power, more efficiently.

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