New Way Now: Carrier orchestrates AI-driven smart energy with Google Cloud Consulting

Ready to disrupt your industry? Google Cloud Consulting can show you how…https://goo.gle/3UDVZXdFeatured in this video: Dan Coughlin, Director of Intelligence Solutions for Carrier Energy, and Greg Hayes, Associate Director of Data and Analytics at Carrier Energy.

Executive summary: Learn how Carrier Energy, a company dedicated to helping the energy grid better the world we live in, partnered with Google Cloud Consulting to build a more reliable, cost-effective, and affordable electrical grid. Dan Coughlin, Director of Intelligence Solutions, and Greg Hayes, Associate Director of Data and Analytics, explain how they tackled the rising challenge of shifting energy demand. By leveraging BigQuery, Looker, and advanced Google Cloud AI modeling, Carrier Energy built a cloud-level orchestration system that links DC power technology, home HVAC units, and battery storage.

Discover how the Google Cloud Consulting team provided the deep expertise needed to transition from individual unit analysis to processing terabytes of large-load data sets to predict electrical demand. This partnership enables Carrier Energy to dynamically orchestrate when to charge and discharge batteries in real-time, helping to address the global energy crisis without ever sacrificing homeowner comfort.

Challenge: For several decades, US electrical grid demand remained consistent and slow-growing, but that stability is over. To address the growing energy crisis, Carrier Energy needed to shift from analyzing individual HVAC units to managing massive, complex, large-load datasets across thousands of homes in real-time.

Solution: Working with Google Cloud Consulting, Carrier Energy launched a DC power system attached to its new variable speed HVAC units. By utilizing BigQuery, Looker, and advanced AI models, Carrier built a cloud-level orchestration system that leverages weather forecasts to predict energy loads, coordinating when to charge and discharge smart home batteries in alignment with utility needs.

Results: By processing terabytes of data across thousands of homes, Carrier Energy has transformed supply-demand predictions into tangible grid reliability and cost-effectiveness. This collaboration provides significant benefits to the energy grid while maintaining perfect homeowner comfort, establishing an innovative new way to operate the grid.

Key takeaways and highlights from our interview with Dan Coughlin and Greg Hayes:

→ “Carrier Energy is providing solutions to help the energy grid to better the world we all live in.”

→ “For the past several decades in the United States, grid demand has been consistent, slow-growing. That’s no longer the case.”

→ “Our new variable speed units... enables us to use energy storage and we're able to charge your battery, connect it to the HVAC system, but then also at the cloud level, being able to orchestrate, predict energy loads...”

→ “Google Cloud Consulting has been fantastic to work with. I would say the biggest thing for us is that change from individual unit analysis to that large-load data sets. So now we have terabytes of data when we're trying to look at thousands upon thousands of homes.”

→ “The solution that Carrier Energy is building will provide the benefits in reliability and cost effectiveness to the grid and will have no impact on the comfort of homeowners.”

→ “We're adding in the intelligence, the AI, the infrastructure from Google Cloud, Google Cloud Consulting... We're really going to be able to help solve this problem and contribute to the energy crisis, making the grid more affordable.”