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The demands facing grid operators are changing swiftly: power thirsty AI data centers, clean (but variable) generation sources, and extreme weather events are testing the power grid like never before. These factors require a step change in situational awareness in order to maintain a safe, secure, and reliable grid for all.

Over the past few years, AI was pegged as the answer. Visionaries dreamed up ideas for how models would solve the grid most pressing challenges, yet market-ready applications have been limited to the low-hanging fruit: chat bots for customer engagement, forecasting of siloed data and other risk-averse use cases. Until now.

The California Independent System Operator has taken an industry-defining leap to bring real AI into power grid operations. With operators spending countless hours reviewing outage-related information, CAISO partnered with OATI to bring generative and agentic AI functionality to its outage management system. In this session, attendees will learn how CAISO and OATI worked together on use case identification, solution architecture, AI model selection and evaluation, and deployment in an operation environment.

This session is especially relevant to utilities and RTO/ISOs that are looking to operationalize AI solutions to gain improved situational awareness and efficiency. We will discuss lessons learned and share methodical approaches that should be taken to operate and comply with evolving regulations.

Key Takeaways

• Uncover real-world, practical AI applications in power system operations
• See the latest evolution of OATI Genie™, the first generative and agentic AI platform developed for the energy industry, which is being developed in collaboration with the California ISO
• Learn how to improve situational awareness and efficiency with AI

Session Sponsored by OATI