Introduction
Overview
Lead the way for your career with Advanced Digital Energy Systems MSc
Energy supply is fundamentally important to our homes and workplaces. Future energy supply has to be stable, secure, not only affordable but also sustainable, which makes energy systems a complex problem. Digital Energy Systems is an emerging discipline using powerful digital tools and various digital models to solve and manage the increasingly complex modern energy systems. Within this discipline, digital tools and models (such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain technology) are used to analyse data from different energy systems and sources and drive new control and operational strategies and business models.
Data and data skills are really important to the energy sector is as its developing and transitioning. There are the 3Ds I like to think of: de-centralisation, de-carbonisation and digitalisation and all of those are clearly going to need a lot of data and automation in order to be successful. So AI and blockchain technologies are really important to that transition but it's really important that we do have the right skills and the technologies to process that data and use it accordingly and innovation and skill development in that area is really important.
Nina Klein
Energy Engineer, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
AI blockchain in the energy sector. It's about that user experience. It's about taking that user-centric design, place for place and understanding how we can shift that mass market and then how we can guarantee the experience that is commercially viable for that organisation and doesn't degrade the experience that they currently have with a centralised generation system.
Adam Jones
Lead, Distributed Energy and Distribution Networks, IBM
I think energy is one of the key challenges we face as a society. If we don't address the energy challenge, if we don't decarbonise our energy systems which make up a big chunk of our CO2 production, at the moment all else probably won't matter. Why AI and blockchain? Because I think they are two of the key technologies which are going to help us address those now there are lots of other technologies as well there are things like the Internet of Things and I think there's still a lot of work to be done on other social sciences and psychology of how to change people's behaviour because ultimately all of these technologies only make a difference if people decide to use them if people act on the advice for the example given by an AI system if people trust to hand over the controls to an automated system.
Erwin Frank Schultz
Chief Technical Officer for Energy, Environment and Utilities UK and Ireland, IBM
