An Austrian-based tech startup has been utilizing AI to provide a smoother and more stable power supply, as renewable energy quickly becomes the preferred power source for nations.
As Europe increases its green energy capacity by installing wind turbines and solar panels, challenges have emerged due to the weather dependency of these sources. Even small fluctuations -- a cloud blocking the sun or a brief period of too little wind -- can destabilize power networks.
However, these problems can be mitigated with intelligent management. Clemens Wasner, founder of the AI Enlite, uses AI learning to stabilize power grids, and the system can react faster and evaluate more options than operators switching the grid manually.
"In case a blackout might happen, our solution can go 60 percent longer than, let's say, normal manual switching," said Wasner.
The AI agent can predict overloads and suggests the fastest way to restore balance. Wasner gave a demonstration from his computer desk.
"This part of the grid is overloaded, so it is telling you if you switch these three stations, the overload here and here will vanish. It's a little bit like traffic routing," he said.
So far, the company has worked with power grid operators in France and the Netherlands. Wasner said he hopes more countries will embrace his AI solution to strengthen the resilience of their electricity networks, noting that he learned much of his foundational knowledge from Chinese experts.
"I spent 10 years in Asia, a long time also in Beijing in China, and I saw how AI is picking up in China. So, when I returned to Austria in 2016, the idea was to create a company that is applying and rolling out AI to real-world use cases," the tech-startup founder said.
Austrian startup leverages AI to stabilize green-energy power supply
China's trade in services maintained steady growth in the first seven months of 2026, as the export of travel and transport services drove more than half of the overall export expansion, official data showed Thursday.
The country's service trade totaled nearly 4.45 trillion yuan (about 655.8 billion U.S. dollars) during the period, up 8.3 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
During the period, service exports rose 17.1 percent year on year to over 1.77 trillion yuan. Service imports exceeded 2.67 trillion yuan, up 3.2 percent from a year earlier. The country's services trade deficit narrowed by 176.33 billion yuan year on year to 900.25 billion yuan.
A breakdown of the data showed travel and transport services emerged as the two export growth drivers. Travel service exports surged 27.7 percent, while transport service exports rose 27.1 percent. The two categories contributed 22.1 percent and 29.9 percent, respectively, to the overall growth of services exports.
Knowledge-intensive services also remained a pillar of China's export mix. Trade in such services, which include telecommunications, information technology, finance, intellectual property and other business services, increased 6.6 percent to over 1.96 trillion yuan, accounting for 44.1 percent of the country's total services trade.
China has intensified policy efforts to boost service sector development. The outline of the 15th Five-Year (2026-2030) Plan and this year's Government Work Report both made specific arrangements for this sector.
In April, the State Council issued a guideline on advancing the expansion and quality upgrading of the sector. According to the guideline, China aims to make marked progress in high-quality service sector development, with the total scale of the sector exceeding 100 trillion yuan by 2030, while more competitive and influential "China services" brands will be cultivated.
China's service trade posts steady expansion, as travel, transport lead export growth
