August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Energy storage is the backbone of a resilient, renewable-powered grid – but unlocking its full potential requires more than just batteries. Enter AI. From dispatch optimization to grid services and market trading, AI transforms batteries from passive storage to active grid assets, driving smarter decisions, higher returns, and longer lifespans....
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
As renewables surge into the grid, their variability introduces new operational and economic challenges. Solar and wind don’t follow demand curves – and traditional grids weren’t designed for bidirectional, distributed energy flows. AI makes smart grids truly intelligent – balancing volatility, unlocking flexibility, and enabling a new era of clean,...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Demand Side Management (DSM) is key to making electricity systems more flexible, resilient, and cost-effective – but without intelligent coordination, it can be slow, clunky, and consumer-unfriendly. AI makes DSM proactive, personalized, and grid-aware – transforming millions of homes, buildings, and devices into active participants in the power system. 🎯...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Transmission and distribution (T&D) networks are the arteries of our energy system, but aging infrastructure, growing demand, and renewable variability are pushing them to their limits. Enter AI-powered Smart Grids – a game-changer for grid reliability, efficiency, and resilience. With AI, T&D systems are evolving into self-healing, data-driven, and dynamically...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) – from diesel generators to marine engines – waste a significant portion of fuel energy as low-grade heat. While recovering this energy has been technically challenging, especially below 150°C, AI is now unlocking new possibilities for low-temperature waste heat recovery that are efficient, smart, and scalable....
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Heat pumps are among the most efficient technologies for decarbonizing heating and cooling – across homes, buildings, and entire districts. But their real-world performance often suffers due to poor sizing, inefficient operation, and unpredictable environmental conditions. Enter AI: turning heat pumps into intelligent, grid-aware, and self-optimizing energy systems. 🎯 How...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Boilers are the heart of thermal operations across industries – but they also represent one of the biggest sources of lost energy via hot exhaust gases. As decarbonization becomes mission-critical, waste heat recovery (WHR) is emerging as a low-hanging opportunity to boost efficiency and reduce emissions. AI is giving boiler-based...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
As data centers scale to meet the rising demands of digital life, they also produce massive amounts of waste heat – often dissipated without any reuse. But with energy costs and sustainability mandates tightening, that wasted heat is now a valuable, recoverable resource. AI is transforming the data center from...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
The chemical industry runs some of the most thermally intensive and complex processes in the world – from cracking and distillation to drying and synthesis. And with that comes an enormous potential for waste heat recovery – most of which still goes unnoticed. AI is now reshaping WHR in chemicals...
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August 7, 2025 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Cement manufacturing is one of the most energy-intensive industries – yet a massive amount of heat escapes unused from kilns, coolers, and stacks. Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) systems can capture this energy, but real-world efficiency is often held back by process variability and harsh conditions. Enter AI: transforming WHR from...
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