The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills

The UK's forecasts for solar power generation have become far more accurate through the use of artificial intelligence, in a development that could lower energy bills and carbon emissions. The country's energy system is becoming more reliant sources of electricity with a variable output. Renewables like wind and solar, which depend on the weather, provided 36 per cent of our electricity at the start of this year, up from 7 per cent in 2009. "The growth in solar was much, much more fast-paced than anyone anticipated," says …