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Duke Energy, GE Tap AWS to Help Balance the Green Grid of the Future

The electricity grid of the future will not only be powered from greener sources, but it will also be several times bigger than it is today, thanks mandates to eliminate the use of gasoline and diesel for transportation Read more…

UK to Leverage Cloud-Predicting AI to Anticipate Solar Energy Supply

Solar and wind plants provide clean, affordable electricity on large scales, but they have one major bugbear: intermittency. Essentially, intermittency refers to the fact that wind and solar energy are both, to some degr Read more…

NASA Uses AI to Improve Its Solar Imaging

For the last 11 years, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft has been planted in orbit around the Earth, using a series of instruments to observe the Sun in exacting detail. This extended mission has taken Read more…

Solar Data Analytics Approaches Warp Speed

Data scientists at NASA are employing GPU-powered workstations and local storage to greatly accelerate analysis of images captured by the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Launched in 2010 to probe our yellow dwarf star and Read more…

Chips, Stats & Stones: A Morning with SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight

Last week, we sat down for a recorded interview with Dr. James Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of the SAS Institute that is shared here, but more importantly, we spent time on the campus, riding around with Dr. Goodnight, poking into a $70 million datacenter, and chatting about what really excites him; chips, stats and rocks.... Read more…

Weathering Risk Management Data

When it comes to data science, few areas create the demand for sophisticated big data tools quite like climate studies and risk management. For a company that blends the two of these difficult areas of research, the data management complexities are.... Read more…

Analytics Power Solar Energy Boost

While solar energy pioneers are still seeking ways to tweak the price performance issue, others are focusing on less obvious potential solutions. One such group of solar cell researchers at MIT is addressing the problem of current solar technolo.... Read more…

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