Mar 12, 2017
National Grid mulls DeepMind deal to balance energy
Google's DeepMind is in discussions with the UK's National Grid to use artificial intelligence to help balance energy supply and demand in Britain. "We're early stages talking to National Grid and other big providers about how we could look at the sorts of problems they have. It would be amazing if you could save 10 per cent of the country's energy usage without any new infrastructure, just from optimisation. That's pretty exciting," Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's chief executive told the Financial Times. DeepMind's algorithms could more accurately predict demand patterns and help balance the national energy system more efficiently. "There's huge potential for predictive machine learning technology to help energy systems reduce their environmental impact. One really interesting possibility is whether we could help the National Grid maximise the use of renewables through using machine learning to predict peaks in demand and supply," a DeepMind spokesperson said, adding that it was in the process of exploring a "Possible partnership". "A spokesman for National Grid said:"We are in the very early stages of looking at the potential of working with DeepMind and exploring what opportunities they could offer for us.
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