The Role Of AI In Electric Grid Management
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Buzz Solutions CTO and COO Vikhyat Chaudhry explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to make the energy grid more efficient.
AI isn't just hungry for electricity-it's learning to manage the grid that feeds it. Chaudhry discusses how computer‑vision models are turning aerial photos and drone video into a real‑time 'health report' for power lines, substations and transformers.
Why start with pictures? Utilities are coping with a shrinking workforce and a network that grows more distributed every year as solar arrays, wind farms and EV chargers come online. Manually checking every pole is impossible, so AI filters the footage, flags cracked insulators, overheating equipment and encroaching vegetation, then hands crews an actionable short list .