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Con Edison Enhances the C3 AI Suite with New Advanced Analytics and Enterprise AI Applications

C3 AI, a leading enterprise AI software provider, announced today that Con Edison had launched several new enterprise AI-powered apps built on the C3 AI® Suite, including one developed by a Con Edison Data Architect utilizing the no-code application C3 AI Ex Machina.

The Conservation Voltage Optimization (CVO) application minimizes the amount of energy required to provide adequate electric service using Con Edison’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data, thereby lowering energy generation, operating expenses, and overall CO2 emissions.CVO identifies voltage optimization opportunities at different distribution levels, including substations and individual structures, by analyzing 15-minute interval AMI voltage measurements from nearly 3.1 million electric meters and incorporating distribution grid hierarchy data elements. Con Edison stated that voltage reductions of around 3% could result in 1.5 percent energy savings over 20 years through improved voltage management.

Con Edison is collaborating with C3 AI to integrate 15-minute interval data from AMI with data from 27 enterprise source systems, generating 800 billion new rows of data per year (or 2.2 billion per day) across a total of 3.4 million electric meters installed at Con Edison, Orange, and Rockland Utilities to create a 415 TB enterprise data analytics platform that is growing at a rate of 200 TBs per year.

Con Edison minimizes operational expenses by optimizing work and increasing productivity by using data-driven insights from the C3 AI Suite. Con Edison has successfully deployed additional new applications using C3 AI, in addition to CVO, to accelerate value for its customers, including:

Grid Modernization application: Identifies abnormal neutral leg voltages, optimizes work orders based on street status and site access to prioritize strategic planning efforts, detects outage anomalies, and highlights variances in customer projects.

Revenue Protection application based on artificial intelligence: Reduces the economic impact of energy theft and revenue loss by utilizing meter alarms and other relevant data.

Monitoring solution for “hot sockets”: Enables the quick detection and identification of issues caused by overheating and manages the issue resolution lifecycle. After being prototyped with C3 AI Ex Machina, this solution was deployed into the C3 AI AMI Operations application.

About C3.ai, Inc.

C3.ai, Inc. is a leading enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI offers a family of fully integrated products, including C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution for trying to apply data science to a variety of problems. The C3 AI offering is built on an open, model-driven AI architecture that streamlines data science and application development.

About Con Edison

Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with around $13 billion in annual revenues and $60 billion in assets. The utility serves 3.5 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York, with electricity, natural gas, and steam.

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