Laurent Bueneau

Power & Utilities Industry Leader, Microsoft · 1 appearance on the record.

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Laurent Boinot serves as the Americas Power & Utilities Industry Leader at Microsoft, focusing on AI and cloud deployment for grid modernization and the energy transition. He previously co-founded Europe's first corporate MOOC platform, Neodemia, and worked in management consulting at McKinsey and PwC.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Nuclear energy permitting costs can reach tens of millions of dollars yearly

“The permitting can run into the tens of millions of dollars yearly.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 4:52 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

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What they said10 Episodes1

Everything Laurent Bueneau said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

AI clean energy efficiency gains outweigh data center power consumption

“Data centers use a lot of energy, but you'll have to use a lot of very dirty energy to compensate how much more efficient you can make the process of identifying Sites for clean energy.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 13:49 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Basic AI outperformed human risk experts on World Bank projects

“Again, with a very basic AI tool, we were able to replicate that risk analysis And do a better job than the human graders did.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 1:45 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Insight

Electric utilities resist early AI adoption by aiming to be fast followers

“So utilities show some resistance. Often one of the difficulties we have is that our customers want to be fast followers. And in order to be fast followers, you need to follow someone. So someone has to go first. That's definitely an issue in this sector in pa…”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 2:37 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Supported

Nuclear energy permitting costs can reach tens of millions of dollars yearly

“The permitting can run into the tens of millions of dollars yearly.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 4:52 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Disclosure

Constellation uses Microsoft product to enable hourly green electricity matching

“Another customer where we have a tight partnership is Constellation. And with Constellation, we have a project called 24 Seven Matching, which is actually not a project, it's a product. And with that Constellation is able to tag its green electricity hourly, w…”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 9:41 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Supported

NERC CIP standards do not prohibit electric utilities from using cloud computing

“So for instance, if you think about NUC-SIP, which is the North American Electric Reliability Corporations Critical Infrastructure Protection standard, there is a perception that what NUC-SIP does is prevent you from doing anything in the cloud. It's not the c…”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 10:49 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Not checkable as stated

One utility reported employees gaining an extra day of productivity weekly

“I have a customer that did a report where they found that after just a few weeks of usage, each employee had a or achieve a day more for activity every week.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 12:52 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Supported

Microsoft AI screened 32 million battery electrolyte candidates down to 100

“What you're referring to is a project where AI was leveraged by our research teams to screen over thirty-two million candidates for a new electrolyte for advanced batteries. Thanks to AI inference, you know, the R&D scientists were able to go from that number …”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 7:08 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Assertion Supported

Hydro-Québec uses AI-guided robots for line and vegetation inspection

“Hydro-Quebec, for instance, as a whole, A menagerie of robots for inspecting power lines, for inspecting so the actual line, but also for inspecting vegetation around power lines and preventing fires. All that again, you know, very boring kind of maintenance t…”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 9:12 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Disclosure

Terra Praxis uses AI to identify coal sites for nuclear repowering

“We have a partnership with a, with an NGO called Terra Praxis. And with Terra Praxis, we are identifying coal power sites for repowering to nuclear and SMR, so small modular reactors.”

Laurent Bueneau Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 14:05 How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How AI is solving real utility challenges [partner content]	Mar 11, 2025	11m

Laurent Bueneau

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