McDonald: AI can auto-enroll low-income consumers in clean energy assistance programs
Paul McDonald · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 52:35
Paul McDonald proposes using predictive AI models to eliminate paperwork barriers for income-eligible clean energy assistance.
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“I think it's entirely possible to use artificial intelligence, to use, ah, layered data sets to predict. In the same way that we get notifications that we're pre-qualified for a loan or a higher credit card rate, we're pre-qualified for income-eligible financial assistance or clean energy programs. And for customers whom the confidence interval is high enough on the output of that model, skip through all that paperwork completely, and just enroll them in a discount rate, get them limited income energy assistance program benefits, get them access to a free home upgrade or access to subsidized community solar programs.”
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