Transforming the Techno-Economics of Decarbonization in California’s Bespoke Industrial Sector with the Scalable Front-End Engineering AI — Galileo

Industrial decarbonization is pivotal to California's environmental targets, given the sector's substantial contribution of 21 percent to the state's greenhouse gas emissions. However, a significant challenge to achieving widespread adoption of efficiency measures is the unique nature of each industrial facility; this is termed the "snowflake problem." The problem demands tailored solutions and specialized expertise for scoping and front-end engineering (FEE) of decarbonization solutions. Companies lack the in-house proficiency for decarbonization FEE, forcing them to choose alternatives such as the cost and technical analysis time of hiring outside expertise or depending on vendor-driven point solutions, which often lead to unsuitable choices and inaction. To address this, Skyven Technologies developed Galileo, an artificially intelligent FEE system aimed at revolutionizing industrial decarbonization by reducing FEE costs by 90 percent, person-hours by 93 percent, and overall timeline from the first technical call to a completed decarbonization report by more than 99 percent. Galileo has been used to analyze more than 135 manufacturing facilities, identifying more than 4.3 million metric tons of potential greenhouse gas savings and more than $480 million of potential fuel cost savings. Future plans involve expanding Galileo's reach to commercial and residential sectors. This project signifies a significant advancement in accelerating decarbonization efforts across industrial, commercial, and residential domains, underscoring the importance of innovative solutions in meeting California's clean energy goals, as indicated in Assembly Bill 32 (Nunez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and Senate Bill 32 (Pavley, Chapter 249, Statutes of 2016), the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2016, which requires the California Air Resources Board to ensure that the state’s greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to 40 percent below the 1990 levels by 2030.