‘AI could fuel the utility of the future’, thought leadership blog copywriting, IFS. AI is getting significant airtime in boardrooms, and the Utility sector is no exception. After interviewing a subject matter expert, this post explains how the sector is beginning to explore AI in areas such as improving customer experience, managing assets, and optimizing people and resources.
- COPY: Ian Castle, Freelance Copywriter
- CLIENT: IFS
Utilities thought leadership blog copy sample, IFS (US English)
[Excerpt]:
Optimizing and planning resources – AI helps us understand what we will need.
We all know global warming is resulting in extreme climatic changes and events. Unlikely weather-driven failures are happening far more frequently. We’ve seen heatwaves causing sweeping wildfires, destroying infrastructure, and sudden exceptional sub-zero temperatures accompanied by heavy snowfall and ice causing failures and outages. Unseasonably heavy rainfall, high winds and storms are creating flash flooding world-wide.
AI-enabled EAM software enables modeling for future ‘what-if’ scenarios based on current and historic sensor data. We can project environmental risks, model predicted load and population growth, and even understand the potential impact of failures in the field. For example, as we shift towards decarbonization and electrification, we can estimate the extra capacity the system will need to meet demand. These projections can inform our ‘what next’ infrastructure planning. Organizations can decide what to retain, replace, or even relocate, or adapt. For instance, extreme hot weather events could place powerlines at risk of wildfires, while more severe winters jeopardize ice buildup and assets freezing. Financial modeling can estimate the Total Cost of Ownership based on maintaining this existing infrastructure in high-risk areas, or replacing it with new, buried linear assets.