illustration by Fanny Luor
illustration by Fanny Luor

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You’re drowning in documents. So are the people who can make our energy grid cleaner

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Published on December 11, 2024

It is the bottleneck of all bottlenecks—a bureaucratic morass so behind schedule that it now takes an average of four years for a new clean energy project to get approval. Here's how AI could help bring green power to the grid more quickly—and then keep the lights on.

From working with documents to communications, “all that is up for significant acceleration with AI," says Kucukelbir

For the US to meet its climate goals, the country aims to generate 44% of its power from renewable resources by 2050

“As we encourage the adoption of AI in industry, [people] will only trust technology that they understand," says Kucukelbir