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07/15/2025
Avangrid Joins Electric Power Research Institute’s Open Power AI Energy Consortium
Avangrid Joins Electric Power Research Institute’s Open Power AI Energy Consortium
Avangrid will work to advance responsible artificial intelligence in the energy sector
Orange, CT — July 15, 2025 — Avangrid, Inc., a leading energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, today announced it has joined the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Open Power AI Energy Consortium, a global initiative to bring together utilities, researchers, and technology leaders to collaborate on the responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across the energy industry. As part of the consortium, Avangrid will contribute to joint research projects, engage in peer working groups, and help define best practices for AI governance in utility applications.
“Joining the Electric Power Research Institute’s Open Power AI Energy Consortium underscores Avangrid’s commitment to responsibly developing and deploying groundbreaking AI tools that contribute to a resilient and reliable energy grid,” said Avangrid CEO Jose Antonio Miranda. “We will continue to partner with key leaders in innovation and technology to enhance our operations, empower our workforce, and deliver the greatest value for our customers.”
"By collaborating with global industry leaders through the Open Power AI Consortium, we're accelerating the use of AI to strengthen the energy sector," said Jeremy Renshaw, Executive Director of AI and Quantum at EPRI. "EPRI is dedicated to delivering safe, secure, resilient, and AI-driven solutions to help shape the future of energy through proven, repeatable best practices that drive innovation and impact."
By joining the consortium, Avangrid strengthens its commitment to innovation and digital transformation as a key power generator and utility. The consortium will serve as a platform to explore safe, ethical, and scalable uses of AI, focusing on areas such as grid resilience, asset optimization, customer experience, and electrification.
EPRI’s Open Power AI Energy Consortium was launched to promote cross-sector collaboration, knowledge sharing, and applied research on AI technologies tailored for energy systems. The initiative addresses core challenges such as data governance, AI model reliability, cybersecurity, and the human-AI interface in critical infrastructure.
The consortium focuses on three primary areas:
- Develop and maintain open-source AI/Gen AI domain-specific models, datasets, libraries, optimized to address power sector-specific challenges.
- Create a sandbox environment to develop and validate AI applications (use cases) in collaboration with startups, academia, national labs, utilities, and technology companies.
- Deploy AI models leveraging global resources and expertise and incorporate lessons learned to accelerate innovation and de-risk deployment.
About Avangrid: Avangrid, Inc. is a leading energy company in the United States working to meet the growing demand for energy for homes and businesses across the nation through service, innovation, and continued investments by expanding grid infrastructure and energy generation projects. Avangrid has offices in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Oregon, including operations in 23 states with approximately $47 billion in assets, and has two primary lines of business: networks and power. Through its networks business, Avangrid owns and operates eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving more than 3.3 million customers in New York and New England. Through its power generation business, Avangrid owns and operates more than 75 energy generation facilities across the United States producing 10.5 GW of power for over 3.1 million customers. Avangrid employs approximately 8,000 people and has been recognized by JUST Capital as one of the JUST 100 companies – a ranking of America’s best corporate citizens – in 2025 for the fifth consecutive year. The company was named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2025 for the seventh consecutive year by the Ethisphere Institute. Avangrid is a member of the group of companies controlled by Iberdrola, S.A. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.
About Iberdrola: Iberdrola is one of the world's biggest energy companies and a leader in renewables, spearheading the energy transition to a low carbon economy. The group supplies energy to almost 100 million people in dozens of countries. With a focus on renewable energy, smart networks and smart solutions for customers, Iberdrola’s main markets include Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The company is also present in growth markets such as Japan, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden and Poland, among others.
With a workforce of nearly 40,000 and assets in excess of €141.7 billion, across the world, Iberdrola helps to support 400,000 jobs across its supply chain, with annual procurement of €12.2 billion. A benchmark in the fight against climate change, Iberdrola has invested more than €130 billion over the past two decades to help build a sustainable energy model, based on sound environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
