How AI can help the move to a low-carbon future

There's a dire need to speed the planet's shift to clean energy - and the power of Artificial Intelligence can help. The world has gone through a number of energy transformations – from wood to coal, then to oil, gas and (partly) nuclear. These shifts were gradual and contingent on economic conditions. Now major efforts are under way to reform the global energy sector to make it low-carbon, non-nuclear and climate-compatible. But, unlike the previous transformations, the ongoing restructuring process is driven by elevated awareness of the disastrous consequences of climate change. Notwithstanding the global efforts made to revolutionise the energy business (to make it capable of coping with the variability inherent in most renewable energy generation technologies), there is still a dire need to speed up the shift to clean energy solutions.