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Can intelligence help make energy more abundant, reliable and responsible?

Generation, grids and the evidence needed to separate promising control results from deployment.

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Finding more workable grid plans

Google DeepMind reported that AlphaEvolve improved a trained graph neural network's ability to find feasible solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem from 14% to more than 88%.

Source published 2026-05-07 · Demonstrated
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Rehearsing a fusion pulse before it happens

Google DeepMind and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a partnership in which CFS uses the open-source TORAX plasma simulator in daily workflows to test and refine SPARC operating plans before the tokamak is turned on.

Source published 2025-10-16 · Emerging
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Making room in a data center

Google DeepMind reported that an AlphaEvolve-discovered scheduling heuristic had been in production for more than a year and continuously recovered an average 0.7% of Google's worldwide compute resources.

Source published 2025-05-14 · Deployed
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Holding a plasma in shape.

Researchers used reinforcement learning to control magnetic confinement in a research tokamak.

Source published 2022-02-16 · Demonstrated

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Short source reports on announced work, early results and emerging uses.

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A U.S. lab project will test foundation models for grid planning.

The project targets the computational burden of comparing many grid scenarios. Its speed and reliability targets are project aims, not demonstrated outcomes.

DOE’s Office of Electricity Announces $11.5M Genesis Mission Project · published 2026-09-01Captured 2026-09-06 · a lead, not a verified achievement.
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Tracing a cyber threat on the grid

Faster triage could give operators more time to investigate and respond to grid cyber incidents.

CESER and Sandia National Lab are Using AI to Safeguard the Electric Grid · published 2026-09-03Captured 2026-09-07 · a lead, not a verified achievement.

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