A small team of information technology engineers of Tangedco is engaged in the production of daily reports of energy demand prediction through artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to automise the process.
The AI team competing with the those engaged in manual prediction is attempting to have a better reading of the electricity demand pattern in maintaining the grid management. The energy demand prediction report through AI has been started by the IT officials from November 1 and is being perfected to have minimum of errors in the data crunching. The daily energy data helps in the procuring of power for maintaining uninterrupted supply in the city during evening peak hours and also to meet the agricultural demand throughout the State.
A pet project of Chairman and Managing Director Rajesh Lakhoni, it follows the path of the demand data already in operation in the electricity department of Andhra Pradesh (AP).
