Renewable energy

AI for renewable energy operations.

We bring the same AI engineering to wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and the grid — forecasting, predictive maintenance, inspection, and dispatch, on your cloud or your own hardware.

AI improves the forecasting and integration of variable renewable generation — reducing curtailment and emissions, and potentially unlocking up to 175 GW of transmission capacity on existing lines. — IEA, Energy and AI (opens in new tab)

Solar

AI forecasts solar output hours ahead, finds panel faults from drone imagery before they cut yield, and flags soiling and inverter problems as they start. Fewer surprises for the grid, more energy off the same array.

How we help
  • Output-forecasting models built on your plant and weather data, so dispatch and curtailment are planned, not reacted to.
  • Computer-vision inspection on drone thermal and RGB imagery to catch cracks, hot spots, and soiling early.
  • Performance monitoring wired into your SCADA to flag inverter faults and degradation in real time.
  • Any of it on your own hardware when site data must stay on your network.
Output forecastingDrone fault detectionSoiling & inverter alertsYield optimization
Evidence

The UK grid operator (NESO), with the Alan Turing Institute, uses machine learning to sharpen solar forecasting and balance the grid.

National Grid ESO & The Alan Turing Institute — ML to balance the GB grid, 2024 (opens in new tab)

Wind

AI predicts wind generation a day or more ahead, spots turbine faults in SCADA and vibration data months before failure, and steers turbines to capture more energy across a farm.

How we help
  • Generation forecasts 24–36 hours ahead, fed straight into your market commitments.
  • Predictive-maintenance pipelines on turbine SCADA and vibration data to catch gearbox and blade faults early.
  • Computer-vision blade inspection from drone imagery.
  • Wake-steering and dispatch optimization across the whole farm.
Generation forecastingPredictive maintenanceBlade inspectionWake steering
Evidence

Google DeepMind raised the value of wind energy by about 20% by forecasting output 36 hours ahead and scheduling commitments around it.

Google DeepMind — Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy, 2019 (opens in new tab)

Vestas, one of the world's largest wind companies, uses AI to forecast and to steer turbines for more energy.

Microsoft — How Vestas uses AI to capture more energy (opens in new tab)

Hydro

AI turns weather, snowpack, and streamflow data into accurate inflow forecasts days to months out, then optimizes reservoir releases — shifting operations from reactive to planned, and getting more value from each release.

How we help
  • Inflow and streamflow forecasting models built from weather, snowmelt, and historical records.
  • Reservoir release scheduling optimized for revenue, environmental flows, and flood risk.
  • Hydro coordinated with variable wind and solar as a flexible balancer.
  • Anomaly detection on turbine, gate, and spillway data.
Inflow forecastingReservoir schedulingFlood-risk planningHydro–wind–solar balancing
Evidence

The IEA finds AI improves the forecasting and integration of variable renewables, with flexible hydro a key balancer — better inflow forecasts mean more value and less spill.

IEA — Energy and AI, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Geothermal

AI helps read subsurface seismic data, choose where to drill, and tune injection and production — cutting the exploration risk and cost that have long held geothermal back.

How we help
  • Machine-learning models that interpret seismic and subsurface data for siting.
  • Drilling-condition prediction to reduce risk and cost.
  • Reservoir digital twins that optimize injection and production rates.
  • Subsurface and operational data kept on-premise where it is sensitive.
Seismic interpretationDrilling-risk predictionReservoir digital twinsInduced-seismicity risk
Evidence

Google and Fervo Energy use AI and machine learning to interpret seismic data, optimize drilling paths, and improve fracture design for enhanced geothermal.

Google Cloud — Google and Fervo geothermal, AI-assisted (opens in new tab)

Grid & storage

AI is the operating layer of a high-renewable grid: forecasting demand and generation, orchestrating batteries and distributed resources, and dispatching storage into markets in real time — keeping the system stable as variable supply grows.

How we help
  • Demand and renewable-generation forecasting to cut reserves and curtailment.
  • Battery dispatch and bidding agents that act in markets within your guardrails, with an audit trail.
  • Distributed resources — batteries, EV chargers, flexible load — orchestrated as a virtual power plant.
  • A grid digital twin, with sensitive operational data run on your own hardware.
Demand & generation forecastingBattery dispatch agentsVirtual power plantsGrid digital twins
Evidence

The IEA estimates AI could unlock up to 175 GW of transmission capacity on existing lines, and that AI fault detection can cut outage duration by 30–50%.

IEA — Energy and AI, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Fluence's Mosaic autonomously bids and dispatches grid-scale batteries across energy markets.

Fluence — Mosaic AI bidding software (opens in new tab)
Renewable energy

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