Every few months, a new wave of excitement hits the energy industry:
“What if we just put an LLM on top of the grid?”
The demos are impressive.
The conversations sound intelligent.
The summaries are fluent.
The copilots feel magical.
And yet-when it’s time to deploy-everything stops.
Not because LLMs are useless.
But because power systems expose exactly what LLMs were never designed to handle.
Understanding that gap is the key to using them correctly.
More analysis in my blog article at Dragon Energy Journal.