Business / Energy & Utilities
Business / Energy & UtilitiesI Built a Consumer-Facing Assistant. It Could Save My Parents 340 a Year.
ArticleUtility rate plans are designed to be incomprehensible. I scraped the CPUC and DOE datasets and built a chat agent that
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesGrid-Scale AI Is Finally Earning Its Place on the Capital Plan
ArticleGrid management AI was classified as an innovation experiment in most utility capital plans through 2024. The reclassifi
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesFrom Meter Readers to Model Stewards: A Generation of Field Workers in Transition
ArticleThe last utility meter reader in her district retired in February, and the job that nominally replaced hers pays 22% les
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesFrom Meter Reader to Model Steward: AI, Field Work, and the Future of Utility Jobs
ArticleSmart meters and anomaly-detection algorithms have eliminated the traditional meter-reading route. The question is wheth
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesWhen Churn Models Decide Who Deserves Service: Ethics of AI in Telecom Customer Care
ArticleAI churn prediction is a revenue machine for telecom operators. But when the model decides which customers are worth kee
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesPredictive Maintenance for Turbines and Transformers: Where AI Saves Real Money in Utilities
ArticleIn the energy sector, a single unplanned asset failure can cost millions in forced outage penalties, emergency repair,
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesCan a Two-Person Startup Really Help Run the Grid? Building a Mini AI Grid Copilot
ArticleThe electrical grid is one of the most complex real-time optimization problems in existence, and for decades it has been
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