{"id":244706,"date":"2026-04-24T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:15:14","slug":"watch-siemens-energy-opens-new-ai-powered-electrical-grid-lab-in-research-park-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244706\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Siemens Energy opens new AI-powered electrical grid lab in Research Park | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new AI grid lab was opened by Siemens Energy. UCF professor Dr. Wei Sun, UCF Associate Vice President of Partnerships, Michael Harding and UCF PhD student Michael Wakim discuss the new lab.\u00a0This package was aired on the April 17 newscast and was anchored by John Warner and Luis Perez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sabrina Hansen
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Siemens\u00a0Energy, a multinational energy company and Pegasus\u00a0Partner of UCF,\u00a0opened\u00a0a new facility in\u00a0Research Park on April 13 to use artificial intelligence to improve electrical grids.<\/p>\n

The new 6,000-square-foot Grid AI Lab was part of a $1-billion investment by Siemens Energy in the United States, with the goal of \u201ctransforming how electrical grids are managed,\u201d\u00a0according to Transformer’s Magazine<\/a>. The facility is next to the Siemens Energy Innovation Center Orlando campus on Research Parkway.<\/p>\n

Dr. Wei Sun, a professor of\u00a0electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator for UCF on this lab, explained how AI works to improve the region’s electrical grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Siemens<\/p>\n

A video plays inside a Siemens Energy lab showcasing Noedra<\/a>, the digital framework that relies heavily on AI to help reduce grid congestion. Siemens Energy is opening a new AI grid lab that will offer protection against extreme weather and security breaches for UCF power grids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emilie Gilbert<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, AI\u00a0is first using the data.\u00a0You look at\u00a0what\u00a0already\u00a0happened in\u00a0history, so, you can use the data to\u00a0do\u00a0the\u00a0prediction. That’s\u00a0one of the\u00a0most\u00a0popular applications of predictive analysis to see is there something\u00a0potential that\u00a0will happen\u00a0and based on a historical pattern,\u201d Sun said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sun also said that it\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0the only way in which the\u00a0technology\u00a0was working to improve the grid. It also uses\u00a0reinforcement\u00a0learning to make decisions, meaning it takes historical and training data to train the models to have \u201cintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is supposed\u00a0to be a more efficient way to handle\u00a0new solutions\u00a0and to have trained AI\u00a0to provide a solution faster and in real time,\u00a0rather than a more complicated model that takes longer to recalculate, according to Sun.<\/p>\n

Michael Harding, associate vice president of partnerships,\u00a0said UCF sees this\u00a0lab\u00a0as necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Siemens<\/p>\n

The team behind the new AI Grid Lab discusses the analytics of reshaping, grid planning and operations at Siemens Energy in Research Park on April 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emilie Gilbert<\/p>\n

Harding also shared that the\u00a0long-term\u00a0trajectory for introducing this lab is to provide more\u00a0hands-on\u00a0learning\u00a0for\u00a0students, applied learning\u00a0experiences\u00a0and\u00a0internships\u00a0for credit.\u00a0He also said they are looking to up the skill of current Siemens Energy talent and find out what\u00a0that\u00a0looks\u00a0like for an AI\u00a0future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was all a dream,\u201d Harding said, \u201cAnd so to see it all come together today is such a cool reality, and it’s going to give us unprecedented front row access as UCF students and faculty to see sort of what’s coming next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new AI grid lab was opened by Siemens Energy. UCF professor Dr. Wei Sun, UCF Associate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4401,115,139,141,140,1810],"class_list":{"0":"post-244706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-academics","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-science_and_health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}