Energy system digitization in the era of AI: A three-layered approach toward carbon neutrality. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The transition toward carbon-neutral electricity is one of the biggest game changers in addressing climate change since it addresses the dual challenges of removing carbon emissions from the two largest sectors of emitters: electricity and transportation. The transition to a carbon-neutral electric grid poses significant challenges to conventional paradigms of modern grid planning and operation. Much of the challenge arises from the scale of the decision-making and the uncertainty associated with the energy supply and demand. Artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially have a transformative impact on accelerating the speed and scale of carbon-neutral transition, as many decision-making processes in the power grid can be cast as classic, though challenging, machine-learning tasks. We point out that to amplify AI's impact on carbon-neutral transition of the electric energy systems, the AI algorithms originally developed for other applications should be tailored in three layers of technology, markets, and policy.

published proceedings

  • Patterns (N Y)

author list (cited authors)

  • Xie, L. e., Huang, T., Zheng, X., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Vittal, V., ... Cui, Y. i.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Xie, Le||Huang, Tong||Zheng, Xiangtian||Liu, Yan||Wang, Mengdi||Vittal, Vijay||Kumar, PR||Shakkottai, Srinivas||Cui, Yi

publication date

  • December 2022