Powering the future: NextEra Energy’s journey with generative AI (ENU309)

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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

  1. Experimentation: Initial phase where customers built proof-of-concepts, used generic models, and focused on learning and solving simple processes.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. People and Process:

    • Establishing credible business cases and cost models
    • Compliance and governance
    • Risk management and resiliency
  2. Acceleration and Enablement:

    • Providing patterns, pipelines, and prompt management toolkits
    • Enabling builders to develop AI-powered solutions efficiently
  3. Platform:

    • Responsible AI services
    • Observability and cost management
    • AI governance and access controls
  4. Solutions:

    • Leveraging AWS services and primitives, such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Guard Rails, and Amazon QuickSight.

Emerging Trends and Innovations

  1. Agentic Workflows: Leveraging AI agents to automate and streamline workflows, such as asset maintenance and monitoring.
  2. Specialized and Fine-Tuned Models: Customers are building custom models to solve specific problems, like subsurface characterization and sustainability recommendations.
  3. 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.

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