AI's energy crisis (2/3) - how soon for the nuclear option?
As seen in the pragmatic stance taken by the UK’s National Grid energy infrastructure provider, AI is no longer just a future-facing technology, especially for the energy sector. Rather, it is shaping urgent questions today around system operation, planning, forecasting, flexibility, and asset management, as well as customer engagement.
That’s the opinion of Shaz Shamim, Senior Lead, Commercial and Industrial, at LCP Delta, a consultancy across all those areas. Co-chairing a recent Westminster Energy, Environment, and Transport Forum policy conference on AI and the energy sector, he argued:
Clearly, it's not a single opportunity. It is a set of very different applications with very different risk profiles. So, the real issue is not whether AI can produce useful outputs, it is whether those outputs can be trusted, explained, and acted on, especially in a system where failure has real consequences.
From Shamim’s perspective, the key questions are: whether AI can...
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