DOE Highlights AI’s Potential Power Grid Benefits, Energy Demand Risk

The Department of Energy (DOE) is touting several near-term ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) could help improve the power grid in ways that boost decarbonization, even as it flags further research needs for longer-term challenges and warns of the need to manage potential carbon emission increases from the technology. The conclusions surface in a pair of reports released April 29, in response to a 2023 Biden administration executive order instructing federal agencies to undertake a variety of efforts to...