Here's how green energy will transform the ranks of the world’s biggest electric generators: Global2000
, as companies that have already moved toward lower emissions benefit at the expense of the polluters.eanwhile, some of the more progressively minded utility companies are keen to take advantage of new tools evolving out of advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.Global 2000 companies Southern Company, Exelon, and Dominion Energy for example, are all customers of a startup calledand has raised more than $40 million in funding for its A.I.-driven infrastructure safety platform.
Urbint’s system hoovers up records and blueprints of pipes, lines, conduits and builds a model of the real world. It’s a “most transformative” tool, says Emeka Igwilo, chief data officer at Southern Company Gas, itself a division of Atlanta-based Southern Company , who explains that the riskiest part of any utility company’s business is when people start digging on their properties without first calling their utility company. Every year Southern Company generates 2.
Urbint overlays its digital models with historic damage reports, the better to learn where accidents have happened before and might be likely again. The system itemizes for each location the particular excavation risks, even suggesting whether to add more manpower to a job. “The tool expands past what the human brain does in connecting the dots to seemingly unconnected events,” says Igwilo. “Now I don’t have people driving around looking for problems, I can direct them to where they need to go.
Preventing leaks and accidents all helps reduce a company’s carbon footprint. But neither greentech nor A.I. will be enough to save us. “No matter what you do, somebody has to turn a wrench,” says Igwilo. “This is just an augmentation to the physical work. The tool predicts, but somebody has to intervene.” We still need muscle, for now.
For more on how some of the world’s biggest electric companies are embracing machine learning and artificial intelligence, check out the work that Spot, the robot dog from Boston Dynamics, is doing in hazardous conditions.
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