AI energy models risk perpetuating human over-planning and forecasting biases
Carlos Nouel · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 48:14
Carlos Nouel warns about human biases being embedded into machine learning models within the utility industry.
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“And I think the challenge with those models and those biases getting into the models is that all the things that we're trying to get away, those inefficiencies we all talk about getting away from, like over-planning, over-forecasting, having over-capacity on certain things, the models are probably going to spit out similar responses because they're getting trained In the same way that the people that are doing the work today do it.”
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