Engie will be the first customer of the Google Cloud AI version of the AI and will trial the service with its wind portfolio
Engie is partnering with Google Cloud to optimise its wind portfolio to use artificial intelligence. In 2019, Google’s DeepMind division revealed that it was using AI to predict wind power output thirty-six hours in advance, allowing energy providers to schedule grid inputs more accurately. Google tested the experimental software on its own infrastructure, which in 2019 used 700MW of wind power capacity across its data centres and offices.
Engie will be the first customer of the Google Cloud AI version of the AI and will trial the service with its German wind portfolio, which coincidentally also powers Google facilities. Should it prove a success, it will be expanded across Europe.
“The best way to think about it is as a trading recommendations tool. Cochrane added that Google is working on similar forecasting services for other renewable markets like solar power and storage. At Google Cloud, we believe that more accurate data and predictions of wind power production will be valuable to electricity grids, creating benefits for consumers and making wind more competitive with fossil fuels,” Larry Cochrane, Director of Global Energy Solutions, Google Cloud.
For the majority of its cloud computing needs, Engie appears to use Amazon Web Services primarily.
