Empowering AI in the Electricity Grid: The Role of Public Authorities

Goal of this session is to understand how the work of public authorities can actually help in developing initiatives such as GridFM. For this reason, first of all the speakers will present the current portfolio of activities in the different agencies and then an open panel will discuss the way forward.
The session is coherently structured in three parts

1) Part 1: Pitch presentation from Prof. Heymann on the challenges related to regulation in AI

2) Part 2: Current activities in the agencies. Each agency will make an overview presentation of the on-going work:

i. European Commission – Alejandro Lopez Olmedo
ii. NERC – Mark Lauby

3) Part 3: Opportunities for development and deployment of FM for the electricity grid
– Panel discussion between the representative of the public authorities and the audience to discuss the following topics:
– What are the opportunities that Foundation Models would create for the electric grid (including grid management and demand side flexibility)?
– What is the data required for these applications? Who owns this data? Which scale of data is required?
– What is it needed to develop and deploy these FM? How can public authorities help?

Overarching goal of the session is the draft of a report with recommendations that could be used in the future by the different public authorities