NVIDIA highlighted five startups using AI to advance clean energy projects, including Southern California Edison, which reduced grid interconnection application evaluation times from 30-45 days to two minutes. The speedup came from ThinkLabs AI’s software, which runs grid simulations and identifies solutions to interconnection barriers.

ThinkLabs AI, using the NVIDIA CUDA platform, is creating digital twins and agents to speed up interconnection timelines and optimize grid variability.

"The grid is getting less and less certain, so the ability to see things not statically, but as a probability — hence all the utility actions — should be risk informed," said Josh Wong, founder and CEO of ThinkLabs.

Atomic Canyon is deploying AI-powered knowledge management and assistance for nuclear power plant operators using NVIDIA accelerated compute. Its Neutron platform integrates procedures, regulatory guidance, and operating experience into a knowledge layer, while NIVA, the Nuclear Industry Virtual Assistant, was developed with industry partners to bring AI capabilities to the national nuclear fleet.

Redwood Materials is using 100%-recycled electric vehicle batteries with NVIDIA Blackwell-powered AI to create off-grid power solutions for AI factories. Colin Campbell, CTO of Redwood, said, "Using these batteries with our power electronics and systems control software, you can make a highly responsive power source that can deal with the novel fluctuations of AI training."

TerraPower is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twin software for its Natrium reactor, which uses liquid metal sodium for cooling and operates at atmospheric pressure. "Twenty years ago, our founders, including Bill Gates, realized that emissions avoidance should also be a part of this energy solution," said Chris Levesque, president and CEO of TerraPower.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is using NVIDIA Omniverse to compress fusion experimentation into weeks, enabling its SPARC tokamak to replicate solar power on Earth. "With fusion, there’s no running out of control," said Brandon Sorbom, cofounder and chief science officer of CFS. "It is passively safe, since the default mechanism is shutting itself down."

Source: nvidia