Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a key tool in enabling and managing the transition to Net Zero. With increased monitoring of controllable technologies, AI will be able to optimise the deployment of smart technologies, facilitate new products and services, and help to plan and operate the networks. Barriers to entry are being lowered and the technology is more readily available to an increasing array of practitioners, accelerating its adoption into the energy system and creating new opportunities for decarbonisation and energy efficiency.
However, with automation and AI comes new risks to consumers and the energy system. A new report from Energy Systems Catapult and Urban Frontiers explores some of the potential risks and impacts on energy networks and outlines the scale of the challenge in designing and delivering an AI-enabled future energy sector, as we move towards a more decentralised and automated energy network. The challenges identified report represent an opportunity for the sector to take a proactive and collaborative approach to AI risk management, creating a regulatory market that nurtures the innovations that will support rapid decarbonisation, efficiency improvements and new market entrants.
The investigations drew from extensive stakeholder interviews and set out recommendations across three core focus areas for future work. In this roundtable workshop we will explore these proposals for future work, validate and prioritise to set out next steps for industry and policymakers;
- Recommendation 1: Initiate a cross-sector AI special interest group
- Recommendation 2: Develop a sandbox testing environment
- Recommendation 3: Create best practice AI risk guidance
Read the full “AI risks for energy networks: challenges, management and regulation” report here
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction - Tedora Kaneva, techUK (Chair)
- Keynote: Overview of the IUK AI & Quantum programme, Dr Mike Short, Chief Architect, Satellite Applications Catapult
- Keynote: Overview of AI Preparedness in the Energy Sector (recent industry report) - David Altabev, Urban Frontiers
- Roundtable workshops:
- CULTURE & SKILLS: Initiate a cross-sector AI special interest group
- SYSTEMS MODELLING: Develop a sandbox testing environment
- REGULATION & GOVERNANCE: Create best practice AI risk guidance
- Discussion on next steps for collaboration, policy development and industry/government engagement
- Networking drinks
For more information contact:
Teodora Kaneva
Teodora Kaneva
Teodora’s rich background varies from working in business development for a renewable energy lobbying association in Brussels to the fast moving technology innovation startup scene in the UK.
She has designed the market strategy for a German renewable energy engineering scale up for the UK, listed on Nasdaq private market, and now one of the fastest growing scale ups in the world. Previous experience also includes managing a renewable energy startup in London, which has built a small-scale biomass CHP power plant. Teodora is passionate about cross-industry collaboration and working together with academia to inform the design of future educational models and skill building.
Most recently Teodora has ran the commercial activities and business development at Future Cities Catapult, focusing on innovation in cities, digital health and wellbeing, mobility, and infrastructure. Teodora is a passionate STEM Ambassador and a vocal advocate for women in tech.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2016
- Twitter:
- @Teodora_K
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/teodora-k-2969b021
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach is Programme Assistant at techUK, he works on a range of programmes including Data Centres; Climate, Environment & Sustainability; Market Access and Smart Infrastructure and Systems.
Before that Lucas who joined in 2008, held various roles in our organisation, which included his role as Office Executive, Groups and Concept Viability Administrator, and most recently he worked as Programme Executive for Public Sector. He has a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2006
- Twitter:
- @techUK
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-banach-50139650
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