EPRI Launches Open Power AI Consortium to Transform the Future of Energy, with NVIDIA and Articul8 Accelerating AI Adoption

The power and utilities sector keeps the lights on for the world’s populations and industries. As the global energy landscape evolves, so must the tools it relies on.

To advance the next generation of electricity generation and distribution, many of the industry’s members are joining forces through the creation of the Open Power AI Consortium. The consortium includes energy companies, technology companies and researchers developing AI applications to tackle domain-specific challenges, such as adapting to an increased deployment of distributed energy resources and significant load growth on electric grids.

Led by independent, non-profit energy R&D institute EPRI, the consortium aims to spur AI adoption in the power sector through a collaborative effort to build open models using curated, industry-specific data. The initiative was launched today at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference taking place through Friday, March 21, in San Jose, California.

As part of the consortium, EPRI, NVIDIA and Articul8, a member of the Consortium and of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups, have developed a set of Domain-specific multi-modal LLMs (DSMs) trained on massive libraries of energy industry and electrical engineering proprietary data from EPRI that can help utilities streamline operations, boost energy efficiency and improve grid resiliency.

The DSMs, developed using hundreds of NVIDIA H100 GPUs, are is now available from EPRI/Articul8 and will soon be available in early access as an NVIDIA NIM microservice.

For more information, please see EPRI's press release here, as well as NVIDIA's blog here.