{"slug": "energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools", "title": "Energy expects $74M in annual savings from new AI and data tools", "summary": "The Energy Department expects $74 million in annual operational savings from its Quanta enterprise data platform and Joulix generative AI tools, an official said Thursday. The agency plans to expand Quanta to all 88 departmental elements by fiscal year-end and is increasingly using AI for tasks from data processing to contract awarding.", "body_md": "# Energy expects $74M in annual savings from new AI and data tools\n\n## The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.\n\nThe Energy Department estimates that [Quanta](https://www.energy.gov/data/articles/enterprise-data-platform), its internal enterprise data platform, and [Joulix](https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/EXEC-2025-010630%20-%20250923_%20DOE%20AI%20Strategy%20VFinal.pdf), a generative artificial intelligence suite of tools, will generate $74 million in annual operational savings, an Energy official said Thursday.\n\nIn implementing internal AI tools more generally, “we weren’t so concerned with ‘oh this is a new technology.’ It was ‘how do we use this to meet the Energy mission,’” Bridget Carper Arnone, deputy chief information officer for architecture, engineering, technology and innovation, said at *GovExec’s* Government Efficiency Summit.\n\nThe department plans to expand Quanta access to all 88 departmental elements by the end of the fiscal year, Carper Arnone said.\n\nEnergy partnered with Databricks to create Quanta in 2025 after the Office of Electricity was given three weeks to sift through a billion documents for compliance with an executive order, she explained.\n\nThe amount of data the office needed to go through was too large for Joulix to process. Quanta helped the Office of Electricity condense the 200 gigabytes worth of documents to four gigabytes in 12 minutes, she said.\n\nThe data processing “allow[s] us to leverage AI after we fix part of the data problem,” Carper Arnone said.\n\nQuanta is currently used in 44 offices across the agency, with more than 500 data sources, and has helped the Energy Dominance Finance Office project how heat waves would affect electric grids, Carper Arnone said. Other DOE offices are eyeing Quanta to improve funding notification processes and correct cybersecurity vulnerabilities that have been exploited, she added.\n\nEnergy’s broadening use of Quanta has come as the department increasingly adopts artificial intelligence tools.\n\nJoulix, which includes a generative AI chatbot known as EnerGPT, has 21,000 users across department elements, Carper Arnone said.\n\nWhile Energy’s national laboratories have access to chatbots other than EnerGPT, employees at those facilities are using the Joulix-based tool to compile emails, draft responses and write one-pagers to their leadership.\n\nBesides EnerGPT, Joulix has been used to help write job descriptions, speed up contract awarding and help offices comply with executive orders and policy directives, Carper Arnone said, adding that the agency receives feedback from employees on new potential AI applications through a dedicated Joulix email.\n\n“We do go, from a governance standpoint, and look at the risk versus the time frame, and then the reward,” Carper Arnone said.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools", "canonical_source": "https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/energy-expects-74m-annual-savings-new-ai-and-data-tools/414829/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 21:18:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 21:57:41.907560+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Energy Department", "Quanta", "Joulix", "Bridget Carper Arnone", "Databricks", "EnerGPT", "Office of Electricity", "Energy Dominance Finance Office"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/energy-expects-74m-in-annual-savings-from-new-ai-and-data-tools.jsonld"}}