MacMusic  |  PcMusic  |  440 Software  |  440 Forums  |  440TV  |  Zicos
wind
Search

Alphabet subsidiary trained AI to predict wind output 36 hours in advance

Thursday February 28, 2019. 12:52 AM , from Ars Technica
Enlarge / Wind turbines have variable output, but if that can be forecast, that output is more valuable. (credit: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind (it was acquired by Alphabet in 2014) has been developing artificial-intelligence programs since 2010 to solve complex problems. One of DeepMind's latest projects, according to a recent Google post, has centered around the predictability of wind power.
Those giant turbines you see along the highway only produce power when they're moving, and that poses a problem for the grid: in the absence of expensive energy storage, it's difficult to plan how much power those turbines will be able to provide.
That's not to say that wind-farm owners don't try to predict output. The industry has been using AI techniques for years to try to come closer and closer to real wind predictions.
Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1465795
News copyright owned by their original publishers | Copyright © 2004 - 2024 Zicos / 440Network
Current Date
Mar, Thu 28 - 18:06 CET