Climate Changed
Forget Cars, Mitsubishi Hitachi Sees Autonomous Power Plants
- Artificial intelligence seen adding flexibility, coordination
- Plant in Japan will burn hydrogen, scheduled to open in 2020
Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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Who needs power plant operators? Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd. broke ground last year on a hydrogen-fueled plant in Japan that will be run by artificial intelligence.
“There’s going to be autonomous cars,” Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems America chief executive officer Paul Browning said Monday at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit in New York. “There’s also going to be autonomous power plants.”