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How AI-curious utilities can accelerate adoption of the new tech | Latitude Media

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Utilities, by design, are slow to adopt new technology. They’re a regulated public good, and electricity is mission-critical. Unlike many consumer applications where “good enough” new tech is usually fine, utilities must achieve physics-level accuracy across a range of data-driven operations, simulations, and modeling applications — from planning to ongoing operations. As a result, utilities have earned a collective reputation as a conservative industry that prizes reliability far above innovation. But utilities must change faster. Today they’re facing unprecedented pressures, including a raft of net-zero goals for many energy providers and their biggest customers. Utilities must generate far more electricity than ever before to support the influx of electric cars and the conversions of fossil-fueled cooking and heating systems — a huge challenge, but also an unprecedented revenue opportunity. And they must do all this while upgrading and expanding aging grids to better connect ever-ch

Utilities, by design, are slow to adopt new technology . They’re a regulated public good, and electricity is mission-critical. Unlike many consumer applications where “good enough” new tech is usually fine, utilities must achieve physics-level accuracy across a range of data-driven operations, simulations, and modeling applications — from planning to ongoing operations. As a result, utilities have earned a collective reputation as a conservative industry that prizes reliability far above innovation. But utilities must change faster. Today they’re facing unprecedented pressures, including a raf

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