As artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in recent years and power grid operators are increasingly using it in their day-to-day operations, the Scientific Advisory Board of Think Smartgrids publishes a paper outlining the key applications of AI for the benefit of power grids and the major challenges associated with their deployment. The authors also make a set of recommendations to overcome certain technical and societal barriers and promote the scaling of AI solutions for networks.
The paper describes a series of AI use cases for network control, operations and planning, predictive maintenance, customer experience, and AI support for network operator teams.
Technical and societal barriers, data-related issues, and the challenges of scaling up AI solutions are then discussed.
The mathematician Cédric Villani and the philosopher Thierry Menissier also shed light on the strategic perspectives concerning AI in France, and on the ethical issues that are inseparable from the widespread use of AI technologies.
Lastly, the Scientific Advisory Board details nine recommandations:
• Put data at the heart of the approach
• Hybridize techniques and implement multidisciplinary strategies
• Foster transversality
• Develop skills
• Extend standardization
• Aim for frugality
• Facilitate acceptability
• Guarantee inclusion
• Ensure the final responsibility is human
> A webinar will be held on Friday 26 January at 9.00 am to discuss the principal recommandations of the document, with the French TSO and main DSO, RTE and Enedis, INP Grenoble and Quantmetry: REGISTER