BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- When a large number of PV power generation and storage devices gain grid access, AI agents become a better choice to ensure grid stability with more efficient substation maintenance in Linyi, east China.
In the city located in Shandong Province, Linyi Power Supply Company, the local grid operator, took the initiative in developing AI agents to help monitor operation of substations and improve emergency response to reduce maintenance costs.
After being trained and tested under the mindsets of maintenance workers for many times, such AI agents are capable of integrating a huge amount of data of different systems to gauge the equipment situation of transformer stations.
Workers of Linyi Power Supply Company can also give commands through these AI agents to utilize on-site cameras, robots, and other devices to remotely confirm the location and cause of faults.
Under such circumstances, related transportation costs are significantly reduced and malfunction response is greatly accelerated, not to mention that these AI agents can order drones to regularly patrol over power lines within a 1-kilometer radius of local substations.
Compared to the past when each substation required 70-plus manual inspections annually, AI agents now help trim manual patrols to merely 2-3 times a year, introduced Xia Hun, worker of the substation maintenance center of Linyi Power Supply Company.
Thanks to these AI agents, related application and practices won a silver award in the "AI+sustainable development" category of the fifth competition on best practices of applied algorithms (BPAA), according to Xia.
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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