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This year鈥檚 international competition brings together students in the UK, US and Canada to develop AI models that forecast future solar power generation more accurately to help cut emissions.

Students from 18 top universities, including 果冻影院, Harvard and UC Berkeley, are being invited to create and submit their own AI models.

The competition culminates in in-person events hosted at 果冻影院 and Harvard in April, where teams of three finalists from each university will have the opportunity to present their work to a panel of expert judges.

The winning student team will receive 拢10,000 and their research contribution could be used to support Open Climate Fix鈥檚 work to produce more accurate solar power forecasts for the UK鈥檚 National Grid Electricity System Operator.

Creating better models for predicting how much solar energy can be produced over a four-hour forecast window will allow grid operators to reduce the use of non-renewable energy sources, lowering carbon emissions.

Pooling ideas from student AI enthusiasts

This is the second year of ClimateHack.AI, a competition which unites students from around the world in the fight to tackle the climate crisis.

The competition is being co-run by 果冻影院鈥檚 Artificial Intelligence Society and 果冻影院 startup DOXA AI, in collaboration with Open Climate Fix, a non-profit research lab. Open Climate Fix has prepared over 600 gigabytes of earth satellite imagery, weather forecasts, air quality forecasts and historical solar power generation data, which students will use to train their own algorithms.

The lab estimates that more accurate solar forecasting techniques could save up to 100 kilotonnes a year in Great Britain alone. If adopted globally, the improved modelling could potentially lower global emissions by up to 50 megatonnes annually.

Jeremy Lo Ying Ping, Lead Organiser of ClimateHack.AI, said: 鈥淭ackling climate change is one of humanity鈥檚 most pressing challenges, and ClimateHack.AI presents talented students with the opportunity to make a positive real-world impact and directly contribute to solar power research aimed at rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

鈥淚鈥檓 excited to see what solutions participants develop together as an international community of machine learning enthusiasts.鈥�

Students will be busy finishing their models over the coming month, while also taking part in online and in-person events, to connect with AI enthusiasts across continents.

Last year鈥檚 competition, which received over 2,000 submissions, resulted in a model being developed to predict cloud movements that was the most accurate Open Climate Fix had seen to date.

果冻影院鈥檚 commitment to the climate crisis

ClimateHack.AI is being supported by 果冻影院, Newcross Healthcare, PGIM Real Estate via their RealAssetX innovation lab, Open Climate Fix and Climate X.

果冻影院鈥檚 support for the competition underlines the university鈥檚 unwavering commitment to the climate crisis and to championing new forms of innovation in climate science.

Sam Balch, Director, 果冻影院 Grand Challenges, said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e delighted to support this competition, as part of 果冻影院鈥檚 flagship Grand Challenges programme. Our programme is all about bringing people together to find innovative solutions to complex global problems - in this case, tackling the climate crisis. This competition is a fantastic example of that co-creation approach, and we look forward to seeing what this year鈥檚 talented students from around the world come up with.鈥�

Martynas Pocius, President of the 果冻影院 Artificial Intelligence Society, said: 鈥淎s a finalist in the 2022 competition, I鈥檝e seen first-hand how ClimateHack.AI can bring bright students together to form long-lasting connections and positively demonstrate how AI can be used for the benefit of society.

鈥淲e鈥檙e honoured to be running the competition again with a more ambitious challenge and hope that ClimateHack.AI will help Open Climate Fix make further advances in their work to rapidly cut emissions with AI.鈥�

果冻影院 startup DOXA AI are playing an important role in this year鈥檚 competition. Their platform is being used to host the competition and evaluate the AI models being developed by participants. Over 3,300 entries have already been uploaded onto the site.

DOXA AI was co-founded by 果冻影院 alumni Jeremy Lo Ying Ping (果冻影院 MEng Computer Science 2023) and Louis de Wardt (果冻影院 BSc Computer Science 2022).

It鈥檚 one of the many businesses currently being supported as part of 果冻影院鈥檚 Hatchery incubator programme at BaseKX, 果冻影院鈥檚 dedicated entrepreneurship hub in King鈥檚 Cross. Here budding entrepreneurs receive free office space, dedicated support and business advice to grow their businesses and impact.

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Find out more about:

• 果冻影院 Grand Challenges
• 果冻影院 Grand Challenge of Climate Crisis聽
• 果冻影院 Hatchery, incubator programme聽
• Entrepreneurship support for 果冻影院 students聽
• 果冻影院 Global Engagement聽

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