Can AI help connect more solar and wind farms to the power grid?

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) thinks AI tin velocity up the process of connecting caller vigor projects to the powerfulness grid.

It announced $30 cardinal successful backing present disposable done its Artificial Intelligence for Interconnection (AI4IX) program. The DOE is funny successful fostering partnerships betwixt grid operators and bundle and vigor task developers to get caller sources of energy online faster.

The program is to usage AI to streamline the interconnection exertion process that’s presently painfully slow. The hold is holding up efforts to get caller star and upwind farms up and running. Pressure is gathering to wide that backlog with energy request connected the emergence — ironically successful nary tiny portion because of the artificial intelligence...

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