Leveraging GPUs to Coordinate Outage Scheduling for Utilities
, Senior Project Manager & Software Lead in Grid Operations & Bulk Variable Generation Integration, EPRI
, Senior Solutions Architect, Energy, NVIDIA
Contingency analysis for coordinating outage scheduling of substations, generators, transformers, and other assets is critical for electric utilities. Current tools are crude, and don't leverage accelerated computing for artificial intelligence or grid simulation. EPRI and NVIDIA are developing a new set of tools that will greatly enhance utilities' ability to schedule outages while minimizing downtime.