DOE Opens Funding Opportunity For AI Use To Speed Grid Connections

November 26, 2024
The Department of Energy (DOE) is making available $30 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law for using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up permitting of new generation interconnections to the power grid, highlighting AI’s potential to help integrate greater levels of clean energy even as warnings grow about its emissions impacts. The deadline for applications for the funding is Jan. 10 -- just over a week before the formal end of the Biden administration -- with that timeline suggesting that...


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