A Paola-based company is using artificial intelligence to transform how electrical grid infrastructure operates, with the potential to make the U.S. more energy self-sufficient and create thousands of local jobs. You know those big ugly green boxes that you see outside homes and offices? Kodion Energy manufactures those. They are electrical transformers that connect buildings to the power grid. CEO Joshua Okorie’s company is doing something different as it puts ai technology into these critical pieces of infrastructure. The company’s transformers are equipped with AI-powered chips that can detect inefficiencies in energy systems before they cause power outages. The technology provides real-time data to both Kodion and users about how transformers are performing.
They are under contract with the U. S. Department of Energy to install transformer units on military bases on the west coast. They recently broke ground on a massive 120,000-square-foot facility in Paola that will bring 50 to 100 jobs in the area. We’ll have more on this tomorrow.
