Consortium to drive AI development in power sector

Guidance will be provided through an executive advisory group as well as the general membership including top executives from the following energy companies: ACWA (NOMAC), Alliant Energy, Ameren, Constellation, Con Edison, CPS Energy, Dairyland Power Cooperative, Duke Energy, Enowa (Neom’s Energy and Water Company), Exelon, GCC Interconnection Authority, Georgia Transmission Corporation, KEPCO, KHNP, Khalifa University, MISO, North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives, New York Power Authority (NYPA), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Portland General Electric, PPL Corporation, RTE, Santee Cooper, Saudi Electricity Company, Southern Company, Southern California Edison, Tennessee Valley Authority, WEC Energy Group, and Westinghouse Electric Company.

The energy executives will join technology companies Articul8, AWS, Linux Foundation Energy, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited, SHI and WWT as members, with future members to be added.

“Over the next decade, AI has the great potential to revolutionise the power sector by delivering the capability to enhance grid reliability, optimise asset performance, and enable more efficient energy management,” said EPRI president and CEO Arshad Mansoor. “With the Open Power AI Consortium, EPRI and its collaborators will lead this transformation, driving innovation toward a more resilient and affordable energy future.”

Marc Spieler, senior managing director of energy at Nvidia, added: “The power and utility industries are the backbone of modern society, impacting every aspect of our daily lives.

“As the industry faces increasing complexity – ranging from grid modernisation to decarbonisation and resilience – EPRI is bringing leaders together to form open, industry-specific LLMs and AI models that will be essential to accelerating innovation and efficiency.”