Artificial Intelligence Set To Boost Efficiency Of Solar & Wind

New research has posited that artificial intelligence will increasingly automate operations for the wind and solar industries, boosting their efficiencies in areas such as decision making and planning, condition monitoring, robotics, and inspections. The new position paper published this week by DNV GL -- international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered near Oslo -- entitled Making Renewables Smarter: The benefits, risks, and future of artificial intelligence in solar and wind, outlines the advances being made in robotics, inspections, supply chain, and the way we work and showcases a variety of opportunities for the solar and wind industries to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) applications to improve their efficiency. "The use of artificial intelligence in industries continues at an impressive rate -- in manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, transportation, finance, telecommunications, services, and energy," the authors of the report explain. "Artificial intelligence's ability to use machine learning to analyse historical and new data, make predictions, control physical operations, and make decisions at increasingly higher levels is having an immense impact." The report explores ways in which AI applications like machine learning can impact the efficiency levels of areas involved in the wind and solar industries such as decision making and planning, condition monitoring, robotics, inspections, certifications and supply chain optimization, as well as the way technical work is carried out.