Southern California Edison loaded 22,000 regulatory documents into Edison GPT
Hannah Green · For Microsoft, AI is an ‘unlock’ for decarbonization · Nov 7, 2023 · at 12:06
Hannah Green of Microsoft discusses how Southern California Edison uses Azure OpenAI to build Edison GPT for general rate cases and regulatory summarization.
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“They loaded over 22,000 regulatory documents into Edison GPT, like decades of filings, and now internal stakeholders can, you know, if they approach the regulatory team, they need information on a specific filing, a rate case, past information, they can use the tool, find the information, it creates a summary, and it creates a source list.”
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