Energy systems are generating more data than ever.
The challenge is no longer simply collecting it. It is
turning that data into better decisions about how we
plan, operate, and invest in physical infrastructure.
Drawing on her research across electricity networks
and markets, renewable energy, storage, flexibility,
electric vehicles and whole energy system
modelling, Aoife Foley will explore where data can
make a practical difference. She will consider how
smart meter and network data can help us
understand demand, distributed energy resources
and energy poverty, assess asset conditions, unlock
flexibility and guide infrastructure investment.
The webinar will also examine the changing
relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and
energy. Aoife will consider both the opportunities AI
creates for extracting useful insight and the growing
electricity demand from the data centres that support
it.
How to identify where energy data can genuinely
improve a decision
Chair in Net Zero Infrastructure, University of Manchester
Professor Aoife Foley is Chair in Net Zero Infrastructure in the School of Engineering at The University of Manchester. She has more than 30 years of experience across industry and academia, including around 15 years delivering major infrastructure projects in the energy, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical sectors. Her research focuses on energy systems, infrastructure, and the net zero transition, spanning electricity networks and markets, renewable energy, forecasting, storage, electric vehicles, flexibility, interconnection, energy system modelling and emerging AI and data centre demand. She uses a broad range of engineering, statistical, probabilistic, computational, and techno-economic methods to understand complex energy system problems and support infrastructure, policy, and investment decisions. She has advised governments, regulators, and industry, ranks among the Stanford and Elsevier Top 2% of scientists worldwide, and is an editorial board member of the Nature Portfolio journal Scientific Reports.
Register now to join the conversation and explore how
better use of asset data could
unlock value across the
energy system.
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