EPRI Launches Consortium to Drive Development of AI Applications in Power Sector

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EPRI today launched a new global consortium—the Open Power AI Consortium—to drive the development and deployment of an open AI model tailored for the power sector, accelerating AI adoption to reduce operating costs while improving the energy customer experience. The consortium was launched at NVIDIA's GTC event.

Guidance will be provided through an Executive Advisory Group as well as the general membership including top executives from the following energy companies: ACWA (NOMAC), Alliant Energy, Ameren, Constellation, Con Edison, CPS Energy, Dairyland Power Cooperative, Duke Energy, ENOWA (NEOM's Energy and Water Company), Exelon, GCC Interconnection Authority, Georgia Transmission Corporation, KEPCO, KHNP, Khalifa University, MISO, North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives, New York Power Authority (NYPA), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Portland General Electric, PPL Corporation, RTE, Santee Cooper, Saudi Electricity Company, Southern Company, Southern California Edison, Tennessee Valley Authority, WEC Energy Group, and Westinghouse Electric Company.

The energy executives will join key technology companies Articul8, AWS, Linux Foundation Energy, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, Rolls-Royce SMR Limited, SHI and WWT as members, with future members to be added.

The consortium will focus on three primary areas:

• Develop and maintain open-source AI/Gen AI domain-specific models, datasets, libraries, optimized to address power sector-specific challenges.
• Create a sandbox environment to develop and validate AI applications (use cases) in collaboration with startups, academia, national labs, utilities, and technology companies.
• Deploy AI models leveraging global resources and expertise and incorporate lessons learned to accelerate innovation and de-risk deployment.

The launch today at NVIDIA's GTC event highlights an important first step in developing domain-specific GenAI models (DSM). EPRI, together with Articul8 and NVIDIA, has developed the first set of industry-first domain-specific GenAI models for electric and power systems aimed at advancing the energy transformation. The DSM will be made available as an NVIDIA NIM microservice for early access. This development sets the foundation for more to come in the following months.

"Over the next decade, AI has the great potential to revolutionize the power sector by delivering the capability to enhance grid reliability, optimize asset performance, and enable more efficient energy management," said EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor. "With the Open Power AI Consortium, EPRI and its collaborators will lead this transformation, driving innovation toward a more resilient and affordable energy future."

"The power and utility industries are the backbone of modern society, impacting every aspect of our daily lives," said Marc Spieler, senior managing director of energy at NVIDIA. "As the industry faces increasing complexity—ranging from grid modernization to decarbonization and resilience—EPRI is bringing leaders together to form open, industry-specific LLMs and AI models that will be essential to accelerating innovation and efficiency."

"EPRI is setting the standard for AI-driven solutions that will transform how we generate, store, and distribute power," said Arun Subramaniyan, founder and CEO of Articul8. "Domain-specific GenAI models are essential to tackling the world's most complex challenges, and this collaboration is proof of how AI can move beyond hype to deliver real, measurable impact."

"Constellation is applying AI expertise throughout the company to enhance power generation operations, develop new commercial products, and ultimately, to help achieve a clean, reliable energy future for our customers and communities," said Jay Cavalcanto, senior vice president and Chief Information Officer, Constellation. "As part of the Open Power AI Consortium, we will help explore how AI use cases can improve innovation, collaboration and efficiency in the power generation sector, and we're eager to see how this work will facilitate and optimize use of AI across the energy industry."

"AI promises to be a key enabler in transforming the global energy landscape, but its true potential lies in real-world applications. Through the Open Power AI Consortium, ENOWA will collaborate with industry pioneers to develop and scale AI-driven use cases that might revolutionize grid efficiencies, optimize energy management, and accelerate the transition to a cleaner, smarter energy future," said Jens Madrian, CEO of ENOWA, NEOM's Energy and Water Company.

To learn more or join the consortium, visit https://msites.epri.com/opai or email [email protected].

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