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Powering the Future with NextEra's AI Journey
The Importance of AI in the Energy Industry
- The energy industry is undergoing massive changes, with increased demand for energy driven by electrification and the need for sustainable, resilient, and affordable energy solutions.
- Many of the required technologies to address these changes have not yet been invented or scaled to the necessary level, making innovation through AI a key component of this transformation.
Stages of AI Adoption in the Energy Industry
- Experimentation: Initial phase where customers built proof-of-concepts, used generic models, and focused on learning and solving simple processes.
- Scaling AI Across the Enterprise: Customers are now looking to leverage their own data to solve problems, stitch AI into actions and workflows, and move towards intelligent automation.
- Intelligent Automation: The eventual goal of having fully autonomous energy systems driven by AI.
Challenges and Patterns Observed in Customers' AI Journeys
- Customers have numerous use cases (75-150 on average) but struggle to quantify the business case and prioritize them.
- Customers want to avoid reinventing the wheel and leverage reusable components and patterns.
- Empowering the business with AI-powered solutions while ensuring compliance and governance.
- Lack of skilled personnel to build AI-powered solutions, leading to the need for upskilling and enablement.
- Shifting focus from back-office use cases to front-line operations, such as improving oil production, lowering costs, and power flow simulations.
The "AI Factory" Framework
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People and Process:
- Establishing credible business cases and cost models
- Compliance and governance
- Risk management and resiliency
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Acceleration and Enablement:
- Providing patterns, pipelines, and prompt management toolkits
- Enabling builders to develop AI-powered solutions efficiently
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Platform:
- Responsible AI services
- Observability and cost management
- AI governance and access controls
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Solutions:
- Leveraging AWS services and primitives, such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Guard Rails, and Amazon QuickSight.
Emerging Trends and Innovations
- Agentic Workflows: Leveraging AI agents to automate and streamline workflows, such as asset maintenance and monitoring.
- Specialized and Fine-Tuned Models: Customers are building custom models to solve specific problems, like subsurface characterization and sustainability recommendations.
- Multimodal AI: Integrating and leveraging different data modalities (text, images, audio, video) to enhance AI-powered solutions.
NextEra's AI Journey and Lessons Learned
- Established key tenets to guide decision-making: human-centered design, top-down prioritization, safe experimentation, and demonstrable value.
- Invested in an enterprise data platform to fuel AI use cases and lower the cost of adoption.
- Embraced a culture of AI and data innovation, encouraging experimentation and providing safe environments for employees.
- Excited about the future of agentic workflows, small language models, computer vision, and voice interfaces to transform their business processes.