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Harnessing AI and Computational Speed

The Clean Energy Transition

“Artificial intelligence (AI), advances in computational speed, and algorithms can help support the clean energy transition. Our industry is moving toward a greater understanding and utilization of these new technological capabilities that are already impacting our clean energy pathways.”

Francis Upton Top Innovator Award for Analytics: CMS Energy

Top Innovators

“The two pieces are for wind generation for drivetrains and solar module performance. The system of analytics we have created is a dashboard screen for an entire site. We could expand that to an entire fleet. By pre-alarming on a wind turbine, the display will indicate an anomaly through statistical analytics. Allowing for inspection and repair prior to the unit coming offline for a fault.”

A Legacy of Industry Leadership

AEIC’s 139th Annual Meeting

“As we gather for the 139th time this month in Savannah, AEIC is still very much guided by our forebearers’ vision to work collaboratively, gather information, and exchange ideas to benefit all members.”

William Hammer Top Innovator Award for Electrification: BGE

Top Innovators

“We started with idle mitigation systems because EV options are limited on medium and heavy truck chassis. With the aggressive goals we have by 2025 and 2030, we had to find another way to achieve those targets and the idle mitigation systems count toward the goals.”

Mabel MacFerran Top Innovator Award for Storage: PNM Resources

Top Innovators

“We have several of our distribution feeders that are a hundred percent connected solar on the distribution feeder. Today, we don’t have any way of energy management on the distribution feeder, so the battery storage will enable us to do energy management on those distribution feeders.”

Why They Wanted to Innovate? Because It is There

Fortnightly Top Innovators

When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, George Leigh Mallory famously said, “because it is there.” I thought of that inspiring line when wondering why this year’s Fortnightly Top Innovators wanted to innovate. Is it because the challenge, and the fruits of conquering it, were right there before them, beckoning them?