Turning Big Data into Clean Electrons at NextEra
As prices drop and competition intensifies in the world of solar and wind, can generators use machine learning to maintain healthy margins?
Energy
Bidgely: Named After The Hindi Word For Electricity, This Company Can Help You Save It
Imagine looking at a graph of your home’s energy usage and knowing exactly what's shaping it. Would you find this information valuable? Bidgely is betting yes and has the machine learning capability to deliver.
Using 3D Printing to Break the Iron Triangle
The days of easy oil are over. No longer can a wildcatter don a hardhat, set up a derrick, and strike it rich in Oklahoma. Operators must now use 3D printing to unlock hard-to-reach resources.
Predictive Maintenance at NRG
How will predictive maintenance impact NRG's competitive positioning?
Using Machine Learning to Improve How Energy Gets to Market
By collecting data and utilizing machine learning, the midstream oil and gas industry is improving operational efficiency.
Xcel Energy – Utilizing Machine Learning to Efficiently and Reliably Incorporate Renewable Energy into the U.S. Energy Grid
Given the importance of addressing climate change and adding renewable generation to the energy grid, Xcel Energy is using machine learning to overcome the challenges of the intermittent nature of wind power.
Process Development Disruption in the Oil & Gas industry: Open Innovation to Drive Value in UK Under-Explored Areas
In 2015 and 2016 the UK Government took a new approach to attract interest to its oil & gas resources, adopting an open innovation model as a short and long term value driver in the country’s energy sector. First steps included large investments in acquisition of seismic data to be later published openly to academia and companies. Further measures included the creation of an oil & gas national data repository to provide enhanced and trusted data on the widest possible terms. In this essay, I describe the UK Government’s incentives to adopt this megatrend; additionally, some further questions are outlined in relation to the sector’s motivations to further commit to this development process.
Can data buy you value in the capital-intensive oil and gas industry?
“Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.” [1]
Protectionism Threatens to Cripple US Solar: Spotlight on Sunrun
Sunrun faces the unintended consequences of the US solar market's shift toward protectionism, a paradigm that can severely undermine the very industry it intends to protect.
From the tundra to the savannah: climate change risk for a global mining company
Rio Tinto, the second largest diversified mining company in the world, combats different types of climate change risks across its geographically diverse global footprint.