Who leads AI at NextEra Energy?

AI at NextEra Energy is led by Petter Skantze (Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer); Rich Argentieri (President, NextEra Analytics). Ownership of AI on the org chart: EVP and Chief Risk Officer Petter Skantze, who oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE.

What AI platform does NextEra Energy use?

REWIRE, the enterprise-wide AI transformation NextEra Energy presented with its Google Cloud partnership in Dec 2025, also serves as its AI product platform; NextEra launched its Optos product suite in Sep 2026 and keeps 100% of the intellectual property.

Which AI models does NextEra Energy use?

NextEra Energy builds on Google: GridComposer and Optos run on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Sep 2026), and grid forecasting pairs TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2 with NextEra's own algorithms. No other model provider is named.

How many NextEra employees use AI?

NextEra Energy reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026 but has published no count of employees using AI tools among its roughly 17,400 staff.

How far has AI spread at NextEra Energy?

NextEra Energy has reported no business return it credits to AI, for any use case or for the company as a whole: the roughly $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on 2024 NextEra Energy Resources projects, shown on a Dec 2025 investor conference slide about AI, is a modelled value with no stated AI share; the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, according to NextEra Analytics president Rich Argentieri (Sep 2026); the 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided using AI in 2024 carry no cost figure; and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI at NextEra Energy Resources is a 2026 to 2032 target. NextEra Energy has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it counts more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution (Oct 2026), and Argentieri's Sep 2026 remark, as POWER Magazine reported it, that FPL technicians, whom he estimated at 85% to 90% of the workforce, use voice-activated AI tools gives a share of the workforce, not a count of AI users. NextEra Energy therefore stays at Experimenting, even with AI in production across FPL's generating fleet and in siting and routing at NextEra Energy Resources; one cost, revenue or headcount return it credits to AI, or a stated count of employees using its AI tools under chief risk officer Petter Skantze, who oversees REWIRE, would move it to Piloting.

Verified Nov 1, 2026

NextEra Energy

Experimenting

Utility
~17,400 employees
REWIRE on Google Cloud
100+ AI initiatives (Oct 2026)
No AI return or user count
Dominion merger pending

NextEra Energy deploys AI through REWIRE, an enterprise-wide AI program built with Google Cloud since Dec 2025 that delivers AI products to the utility industry, such as Optos, launched in Sep 2026. NextEra Energy's AI tools site projects, route transmission lines and dispatch FPL's power plants, and the company reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026. Chief risk officer Petter Skantze oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE, but NextEra Energy has reported no return it credits to AI and no count of employees using AI.

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Their approach to AI

The platform: REWIRE, the enterprise-wide AI transformation NextEra Energy presented with its Google Cloud partnership in Dec 2025, also serves as its AI product platform; NextEra launched its Optos product suite in Sep 2026 and keeps 100% of the intellectual property.
The models: NextEra Energy builds on Google: GridComposer and Optos run on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Sep 2026), and grid forecasting pairs TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2 with NextEra's own algorithms. No other model provider is named.
The reach: NextEra Energy reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026 but has published no count of employees using AI tools among its roughly 17,400 staff.
The catch: NextEra Energy has reported no realized return credited to AI: about $450 million of NPV gains from site and design optimization (Dec 2025) is a modelled value, GridComposer's 2026 savings went to customers, and REWIRE's savings are still targets.

Snapshot

Employees: ~17,400; Dec 31, 2025 (2025 Form 10-K); about 32,600 combined with Dominion Energy
Technology budget: Not disclosed; No technology or AI spending figure published
AI/ML headcount: Not disclosed; NextEra Analytics and IT sit under the chief risk officer
Who owns AI: Petter Skantze, EVP and CRO; Oversees enterprise risk, IT and NextEra Analytics, including REWIRE
Platform: REWIRE, with Google Cloud; Announced Dec 8, 2025; first products in Q1 2026; Optos launched Sep 2026
Models: Google AI plus proprietary algorithms; Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2 named
Reach: Not disclosed; No employee access or usage figures published
Use cases: 100+ initiatives; Strategic AI initiatives under execution (Oct 2026)

Key findings

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announced on Dec 8, 2025 that NextEra would use Google Cloud AI and infrastructure for its enterprise-wide digital transformation, and NextEra's investor conference the same day presented REWIRE as its AI product platform: NextEra earns the SaaS revenue, Google the cloud revenue, and NextEra owns 100% of the intellectual property.
NextEra Energy has reported no realized business return credited to AI: the roughly $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on 2024 NextEra Energy Resources projects, listed on a slide about AI at its Dec 2025 investor conference, is a modelled value with no stated AI share, the 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided in 2024 are an operating result, more than $20 million of 2026 GridComposer savings went to customers (Sep 2026), and about $150 million a year in pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI is a target.
John Ketchum said on Apr 23, 2026 that NextEra Energy brought its first REWIRE products to market in the first quarter of 2026, among them Conduit, Generation Entitlement and GridComposer, and Google Cloud said on Sep 2, 2026 that NextEra had just launched Optos, a suite developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Petter Skantze, NextEra Energy's executive vice president and chief risk officer, oversees enterprise risk, information technology and NextEra Analytics, including REWIRE; Rich Argentieri is president of NextEra Analytics (Sep 2026), and the board's Audit Committee has held oversight of AI risk since a Feb 2025 charter change.
NextEra Energy reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026 but has published no count of employees using AI among its roughly 17,400 staff, a workforce that would reach about 32,600 if the Dominion Energy combination closes in the second half of 2027 as planned.

Where NextEra sits

Stage: Experimenting
NextEra Energy has reported no business return it credits to AI, for any use case or for the company as a whole: the roughly $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on 2024 NextEra Energy Resources projects, shown on a Dec 2025 investor conference slide about AI, is a modelled value with no stated AI share; the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, according to NextEra Analytics president Rich Argentieri (Sep 2026); the 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided using AI in 2024 carry no cost figure; and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI at NextEra Energy Resources is a 2026 to 2032 target. NextEra Energy has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it counts more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution (Oct 2026), and Argentieri's Sep 2026 remark, as POWER Magazine reported it, that FPL technicians, whom he estimated at 85% to 90% of the workforce, use voice-activated AI tools gives a share of the workforce, not a count of AI users. NextEra Energy therefore stays at Experimenting, even with AI in production across FPL's generating fleet and in siting and routing at NextEra Energy Resources; one cost, revenue or headcount return it credits to AI, or a stated count of employees using its AI tools under chief risk officer Petter Skantze, who oversees REWIRE, would move it to Piloting.
How the stages are defined
Ownership: EVP and Chief Risk Officer Petter Skantze, who oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE
Platform: Hybrid: REWIRE and in-house optimizers, built with Google Cloud
Models: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2, plus proprietary algorithms
Hosting: Google Cloud for REWIRE, GridComposer and Optos; no other cloud or company data center for AI workloads disclosed
Reach: Not disclosed; 100+ AI initiatives under execution (Oct 2026)

How they deploy

Build the products, rent the AI stack

NextEra Energy builds its own AI tools on Google Cloud's AI infrastructure, platform and models. Under the partnership announced on Dec 8, 2025, Google Cloud supports NextEra's enterprise-wide digital transformation, the two companies commercialize the resulting products together, and NextEra Energy owns 100% of the intellectual property. NextEra Energy built GridComposer and Optos on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Sep 2026).

AI as a product line

NextEra Energy treats REWIRE as both an internal AI transformation and an AI product development platform. NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference listed SaaS revenue from the Google Cloud partnership as an upside to its earnings growth expectations, John Ketchum said in Apr 2026 that NextEra, working with Google Cloud, is delivering REWIRE products to the utility industry, and Google Cloud said in Sep 2026 that NextEra had just launched Optos.

Cost position first

NextEra Energy ties AI to its low-cost operating model. John Ketchum said in Apr 2026 that FPL's non-fuel O&M is more than 71% below the industry average and that REWIRE products should reinforce FPL's position as the lowest-cost electric utility operator, and the Feb 2026 Form 10-K describes AI and proprietary tools as part of enterprise-wide initiatives to improve processes, lower costs and drive growth.

Operating data as the advantage

NextEra Energy argues that decades of operating data are its edge in AI. NextEra Energy's Integrated System Design Optimizer runs a digital twin of the U.S. transmission grid, and NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy told investors on May 18, 2026 that the combined company would use real-time information and proprietary algorithms to anticipate equipment issues before they occur.

Scale through Dominion Energy

NextEra Energy pitched AI as part of the case for its pending combination with Dominion Energy, announced on May 18, 2026, saying the combined company would use AI to drive efficiencies in development, construction and operations. John Ketchum said on Jul 24, 2026 that the two companies would share practices in areas including data analytics and AI.

Deployment model: NextEra Energy runs AI from a shared corporate platform that serves both Florida Power & Light and NextEra Energy Resources. NextEra Energy's chief risk officer, Petter Skantze, oversees information technology and NextEra Analytics, including the REWIRE AI transformation, and Rich Argentieri is president of NextEra Analytics, which presented GridComposer and Optos in Sep 2026. The operating businesses apply the tools: FPL in power delivery, field work and storm response, and Energy Resources in origination, siting, routing and plant operations. NextEra Energy's first REWIRE products, released in the first quarter of 2026, target the power generation fleet.
Model providers: NextEra Energy names Google as its AI model and platform partner. The Dec 2025 Google Cloud partnership pairs Google's generative and agentic AI with NextEra's asset data for field operations, and Google's open-source time-series forecasting model TimesFM 2.5, its WeatherNext 2 weather model and security-constrained power flow modeling with NextEra's capabilities for grid planning. NextEra Energy built GridComposer and Optos on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Sep 2026). NextEra Energy also runs proprietary algorithms, and its Feb 2026 Form 10-K says it relies on third-party vendors for certain AI tools, platforms and collaborations without naming them.
Data and infrastructure: NextEra Energy says its Integrated System Design Optimizer holds a digital twin of the U.S. transmission grid, evaluates more than 30 million land parcels nightly, models more than 100,000 transmission nodes and collects and analyzes more than 500 billion new data points daily (Dec 2025). Rich Argentieri said in Sep 2026 that GridComposer pulls real-time telemetry, load data and generation profiles, roughly half a trillion data points a day, into a single model. Google Cloud AI and infrastructure underpin NextEra's enterprise-wide digital transformation under the Dec 2025 partnership. NextEra Energy has not disclosed whether it also runs AI models in its own data centers or on other clouds.

Platforms and internal tools

REWIREDec 2025
REWIRE is NextEra Energy's company-wide initiative to rethink how it works, paired with an enterprise-wide AI transformation, and it serves as the company's AI product development platform. NextEra Energy expects REWIRE to drive significant cost savings across the business by 2028 and is building REWIRE with Google Cloud, which takes the cloud revenue while NextEra receives the SaaS revenue.
Models
Google Cloud AI platform and models
Source
OptosSep 2026
Optos is a suite of NextEra Energy tools for utilities, developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform; Optos Composer brings generation, fuel, maintenance, trading, operating reserves and energy storage decisions into one coordinated system. Google Cloud said on Sep 2, 2026 that NextEra Energy had just launched Optos, and POWER Magazine reported that NextEra sells it to other utilities through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Models
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Source
ConduitQ1 2026
Conduit is a REWIRE product that John Ketchum described in Apr 2026 as an AI-powered tool to upskill NextEra Energy's renewables workforce, making technicians more efficient in the field and keeping power plants running.
Source
Generation EntitlementQ1 2026
Generation Entitlement is a REWIRE product that identifies abnormal equipment conditions so NextEra Energy teams can act early and optimize power plant performance across the fleet (Apr 2026).
Source
GridComposerQ1 2026
GridComposer is a REWIRE product that uses AI to optimize power generation, bringing real-time recommendations on unit commitment, power and fuel dispatch and maintenance scheduling into one place (Apr 2026). NextEra Energy built GridComposer on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and rolled it out across FPL's generating fleet, Rich Argentieri said in Sep 2026.
Models
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Source
Integrated System Design OptimizerBy Dec 2025
The Integrated System Design Optimizer is NextEra Energy's tool for designing power solutions that combine all forms of generation, built on a digital twin of the U.S. transmission grid; NextEra Energy says it uses its data set and AI tools to tailor solutions for customers.
Source
NextEra AnalyticsRenamed 2019
NextEra Analytics is a NextEra Energy Resources company that provides design and optimization solutions and consulting across energy generation, plant operations, grid operations and power marketing. NextEra Analytics began in 1989 as SSESCO, a modeling and visualization firm, became WindLogics and took its current name in 2019.
Source
AI-equipped dronesBy Dec 2025
FPL uses drones equipped with artificial intelligence to assess equipment and aid power restoration, and NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference said AI-enabled drone inspections have reduced O&M costs, without a figure.
Source

Vendors and partners

Google CloudDec 2025 (technology partnership)
AI infrastructure, platform and models for REWIRE; joint go-to-market for NextEra's AI products · Google Cloud expected the first joint commercial product in the Google Cloud Marketplace by mid-2026 and said on Sep 2, 2026 that NextEra Energy had launched Optos, developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. NextEra Energy owns 100% of the intellectual property and receives the SaaS revenue.
GoogleLong-standing
Power customer for data centers, including the Duane Arnold nuclear restart · NextEra Energy and Google had about 3.5 GW in operation or contracted in Dec 2025, are developing three gigawatt-scale data center campuses together, and signed a 25-year agreement in Oct 2025 for Duane Arnold's output to power Google's cloud and AI infrastructure in Iowa.

Leadership

AI, data and platform leaders

Petter Skantze

Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer

Petter Skantze oversees enterprise risk, information technology and NextEra Analytics, including the REWIRE AI transformation, according to NextEra Energy's leadership page. Skantze joined NextEra Energy in 2011, ran infrastructure development at NextEra Energy Resources and corporate development and strategy before that, worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Bear Stearns and as a Boston Consulting Group consultant, and holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT. NextEra Energy has not published when Skantze took the role; the previous chief risk officer resigned effective Mar 20, 2026.

Rich Argentieri

President, NextEra Analytics

Rich Argentieri is president of NextEra Analytics, the NextEra Energy Resources company behind NextEra's design and optimization tools. Argentieri presented GridComposer and Optos at a Google Cloud media roundtable on Sep 2, 2026, saying NextEra built the first version of GridComposer in under 12 weeks.

Executives

John Ketchum

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

John Ketchum joined NextEra Energy in 2002, served as CFO and as president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources, became CEO in Mar 2022 and chairman in Jul 2022, and would chair and lead the combined company with Dominion Energy. Ketchum said in Jan 2026 that he expects NextEra's team to use AI better than anyone in America, and presented the first REWIRE products on the Apr 2026 earnings call.

Armando Pimentel

Vice Chairman

Armando Pimentel became NextEra Energy's vice chairman on May 18, 2026, after serving as CEO of Florida Power & Light, president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources and CFO. Pimentel was a partner at Deloitte & Touche, where he led its power and utilities business, before joining NextEra Energy.

Michael Dunne

Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Michael Dunne has been NextEra Energy's CFO since May 22, 2025, after serving as treasurer from Jan 2023 and vice president of finance in 2022. Dunne joined NextEra Energy in early 2022 from Bank of America, where he was a managing director in power and renewables investment banking. NextEra Energy has published no technology or AI budget.

Brian Bolster

President and CEO, NextEra Energy Resources

Brian Bolster has run NextEra Energy Resources since May 22, 2025, after a year as NextEra Energy's CFO and a career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and head of natural resources investment banking in the Americas. Bolster's business carries NextEra's main AI savings target, about $150 million a year in pre-tax cost savings from REWIRE and AI (Dec 2025).

Scott Bores

President and CEO, Florida Power & Light

Scott Bores joined FPL in 2011, was vice president of finance, became FPL's president on Dec 1, 2025 and its CEO on May 18, 2026. John Ketchum said when naming Bores president that he would drive performance and the use of technology at FPL, where AI has avoided truck rolls and supports drone inspections.

Mark Lemasney

Executive Vice President, Power Generation Division

Mark Lemasney directs power production at all of FPL's and NextEra Energy Resources' renewable and natural gas plants, more than 80,000 megawatts at more than 450 sites, the fleet that NextEra's first REWIRE products, Conduit, Generation Entitlement and GridComposer, were built for. Lemasney has led the division since Jan 2023 and joined NextEra Energy in 2003 after building and commissioning power plants at General Electric and Black & Veatch.

Board

Naren K. Gursahaney

Independent director; chair of the Audit Committee

Naren K. Gursahaney has been a NextEra Energy director since 2014 and chairs the Audit Committee, which took on oversight of AI-related risk in Feb 2025. Gursahaney was president and CEO of The ADT Corporation from Sep 2012 to May 2016 and spent ten years at GE, including senior roles in information management.

AI org map

Central IT, analytics and AI office under the chief risk officer, shared by FPL and NextEra Energy Resources

NextEra Energy places its AI program under Petter Skantze, the executive vice president and chief risk officer, whose remit covers enterprise risk, information technology and NextEra Analytics, including REWIRE. NextEra Analytics is led by president Rich Argentieri. NextEra Energy's two operating businesses, Florida Power & Light under Scott Bores and NextEra Energy Resources under Brian Bolster, apply the tools, and the board's Audit Committee oversees AI risk.

NextEra Energy has not disclosed how many data scientists or AI engineers it employs. NextEra Energy's AI work runs through information technology and NextEra Analytics, both overseen by chief risk officer Petter Skantze, with Rich Argentieri as president of NextEra Analytics and Matt Barrows leading its enterprise AI products, and is applied by the operating businesses, which had about 9,400 employees at FPL and 7,900 at NextEra Energy Resources on Dec 31, 2025. NextEra Energy lists AI and data analytics among the shared resources its businesses draw on, and its board receives cybersecurity reports from an unnamed vice president and chief information officer.

Reporting lines

Chairman, President and CEO
John Ketchum
- Enterprise Risk, IT and NextEra Analytics
  Petter Skantze, EVP and Chief Risk Officer
  Includes the REWIRE AI transformation; the line to the CEO is inferred from the executive vice president title, not published
  - Information Technology
    Vice President and Chief Information Officer (not named)
    Manages cybersecurity risk with the vice president of cybersecurity (Feb 2026 Form 10-K)
  - NextEra Analytics
    Rich Argentieri, President
    A NextEra Energy Resources company; builds GridComposer and Optos
- Florida Power & Light
  Scott Bores, President and CEO
- NextEra Energy Resources
  Brian Bolster, President and CEO

NextEra Energy's Feb 13, 2026 Form 10-K listed Terrell Kirk Crews II as chief risk officer; Crews resigned effective Mar 20, 2026 to become CFO of another company, and the leadership page checked on Nov 1, 2026 lists Petter Skantze in the role. NextEra Energy has not said whether REWIRE sat under the chief risk officer before Skantze, who runs REWIRE day to day, or to whom the vice president and chief information officer reports.

Where the AI workforce sits

Information technology, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE
NextEra Energy has not published how many technologists, data scientists or AI engineers work under the chief risk officer.
Not disclosed
Operating teams at FPL and NextEra Energy Resources that apply AI
NextEra Energy describes AI use in power delivery, generation, field work, development and back office functions without an AI headcount.
Not disclosed

Named people

Executive sponsors

John Ketchum
Chairman, President and CEO · Presents REWIRE to investors

IT, analytics and REWIRE

Not disclosed

The vice president and chief information officer, named in filings by title only, reports on cybersecurity to the board.

Petter Skantze
EVP and Chief Risk Officer; oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE
Rich Argentieri
President, NextEra Analytics · Presented GridComposer and Optos at a Google Cloud roundtable, Sep 2026
Matt Barrows
Vice President, Enterprise AI Products, NextEra Analytics · Title from his DISTRIBUTECH speaker biography, which says his team also deploys enterprise AI tools for general office work

Operating businesses

About 9,400 at FPL and 7,900 at Energy Resources (Dec 2025)

Scott Bores
President and CEO, Florida Power & Light
Brian Bolster
President and CEO, NextEra Energy Resources
Mark Lemasney
EVP, Power Generation Division · Runs the generating fleet the first REWIRE products serve

Board oversight of AI risk

Naren K. Gursahaney
Chair, Audit Committee · The committee discusses emerging AI developments and AI risk oversight with management at least annually

Use cases

NextEra Energy says it uses AI in financial analysis, strategic planning, field work, work scheduling, grid optimization, energy forecasting, customer service and operations management (Feb 2026), and reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026. NextEra Energy has published no realized business return credited to AI for any use case. NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference listed about $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on NextEra Energy Resources projects completed in 2024 on a slide about AI, a modelled value with no stated AI share, and NextEra Energy's other AI figures are not returns to the company either: 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided and 1.2 million extra megawatt-hours in 2024 are operating results, the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings at Energy Resources is a target.

Use case	Area	Status
Avoiding field truck rolls FPL uses AI to avoid sending crews and trucks into the field; NextEra Energy said in Dec 2025 that AI avoided 44,000 FPL truck rolls in 2024 but gave no cost saving.	Florida Power & Light	In production
AI-enabled drone inspections FPL flies drones equipped with artificial intelligence to inspect and assess equipment; NextEra Energy says the inspections reduced O&M costs but gives no amount.	Florida Power & Light	In production
Storm response and restoration FPL uses AI-equipped drones to aid power restoration, and NextEra Energy lists enhanced storm response among its AI examples (Dec 2025). NextEra Energy's Q3 2026 earnings release credits the roughly 140,000 outages avoided during Hurricane Isaias in Oct 2026 to smart grid technology, not to AI.	Florida Power & Light	In production
Voice and photo AI tools for field technicians Rich Argentieri said in Sep 2026 that FPL technicians use voice-activated tools to pull torque specifications and work-order guidance on site, photograph parts to match them in the parts catalog and get AI-assisted troubleshooting, and that NextEra Energy also applies AI to driver-safety recommendations for its crews. The product was not named.	Florida Power & Light	In production
AI across generation, fuel and back office FPL plans to apply AI to power generation, power delivery, fuel procurement and allocation, asset scheduling, predictive maintenance, development, construction, supply chain and back office work (Dec 2025).	Florida Power & Light	Announced
Site selection and project design NextEra Energy Resources uses the Integrated System Design Optimizer and AI tools to pick sites and design projects that combine generation types for each customer. NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference listed about $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on projects reaching commercial operation in 2024, on a slide about its AI plans, without stating how much came from AI.	NextEra Energy Resources	In production
Transmission route optimization NextEra Energy Resources uses AI route optimization for transmission lines, which cut routing time from more than two weeks to under 20 minutes.	NextEra Energy Resources	In production
Real-time generator uptime algorithms NextEra Energy Resources runs real-time algorithms that improve generator uptime across its fleet, which NextEra Energy said added 1.2 million megawatt-hours of output in 2024 (Dec 2025).	NextEra Energy Resources	In production
Load and demand modeling for large-load customers NextEra Energy lists load and demand modeling, alongside site selection and route optimization, among the AI uses that support revenue growth, including its data center hub business.	NextEra Energy Resources	In production
REWIRE operating efficiencies NextEra Energy Resources plans to apply AI across power generation, origination, development, design and construction, asset management, land management and supply chain, and expects about $150 million a year in pre-tax cost savings from REWIRE and AI over its 2026 to 2032 plan (Dec 2025 target).	NextEra Energy Resources	Announced
Conduit for renewables technicians Conduit is an AI-powered REWIRE tool meant to upskill NextEra Energy's renewables workforce and make technicians more efficient in the field.	Power generation	In production
Generation Entitlement Generation Entitlement flags abnormal equipment conditions so NextEra Energy teams can act early and optimize plant performance across the fleet.	Power generation	In production
GridComposer GridComposer uses AI to recommend unit commitment, power and fuel dispatch and maintenance schedules in real time, comparing manual dispatch decisions with an AI-optimized alternative across FPL's generating fleet. Rich Argentieri said in Sep 2026 that the optimized dispatch and outage scheduling had produced more than $20 million of savings for customers so far in 2026.	Power generation	In production
Predictive maintenance and remote operations NextEra Energy lists predictive maintenance and its remote operations control center among its examples of AI for cost efficiency (Dec 2025).	Power generation	In production
AI-enhanced field operations with Google NextEra Energy and Google Cloud plan to combine Google's generative and agentic AI with NextEra's asset data to predict equipment issues and schedule crews around supply chain, staffing and weather constraints.	Enterprise	Announced
Grid reliability forecasting NextEra Energy plans to pair Google's TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2 models and security-constrained power flow modeling with its own capabilities for system planning and grid management.	Enterprise	Announced
AI products for other utilities Google Cloud said in Sep 2026 that NextEra Energy had launched Optos, a suite developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform whose Optos Composer coordinates generation, fuel, maintenance, trading, reserves and storage decisions, and POWER Magazine reported that NextEra sells it to other utilities through Google Cloud Marketplace. NextEra Energy receives the SaaS revenue from products sold with Google Cloud and has not disclosed customers or revenue.	Enterprise	In production
Financial analysis, planning and energy forecasting NextEra Energy and FPL use AI in financial analysis, strategic planning, energy forecasting and operations management, according to the Feb 2026 Form 10-K.	Enterprise	In production
Customer service NextEra Energy and FPL list customer service among the operations where they use AI, without describing the tools (Feb 2026 Form 10-K).	Florida Power & Light	In production

Adoption

NextEra Energy has spread AI mainly through operations rather than through an employee assistant: design and optimization software at NextEra Analytics, AI-equipped drones and truck-roll avoidance at FPL, and the Integrated System Design Optimizer, route optimization and generator uptime algorithms at NextEra Energy Resources. NextEra Energy announced REWIRE with Google Cloud in Dec 2025, released its first REWIRE products in the first quarter of 2026, rolled GridComposer out across FPL's generating fleet, launched Optos in Sep 2026, and reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026. Rich Argentieri said in Sep 2026 that FPL technicians, whom he estimated at 85% to 90% of the workforce, use voice-activated AI tools in the field, as POWER Magazine reported it; NextEra Energy has published no count of employees with access to or using AI tools. NextEra Energy's careers site describes an annual Hack week and Innovation Summit for employees.

By the numbers

Strategic AI initiatives under execution: 100+; Q3 2026 earnings presentation, Oct 21, 2026

NPV gains through site and design optimization: ~$450M; 2024 Energy Resources projects, on the Dec 2025 AI slide; a modelled value with no stated AI share, not a realized return

Customer savings from GridComposer: >$20M; So far in 2026 as of Sep 2, from AI dispatch and outage scheduling across FPL's fleet (Rich Argentieri)

REWIRE and AI savings target, Energy Resources: ~$150M a year; Pre-tax cost savings expected over the 2026 to 2032 plan (Dec 2025 investor conference)

FPL truck rolls avoided using AI: 44,000; In 2024, with no cost figure given (Dec 2025 investor conference)

Employees: ~17,400; Dec 31, 2025: about 9,400 at FPL and 7,900 at Energy Resources (2025 Form 10-K)

Rollout, first pilot to today

Q1 2026
NextEra Energy brought its first REWIRE products to market: Conduit, Generation Entitlement and GridComposer.
Q1 2026 earnings call
2019
WindLogics, a forecasting and modeling firm founded in 1989 as SSESCO, was renamed NextEra Analytics as a NextEra Energy Resources company.
NextEra Analytics
2024
NextEra Energy avoided 44,000 FPL truck rolls using AI and gained 1.2 million megawatt-hours from generator uptime algorithms at NextEra Energy Resources, figures it reported in Dec 2025.
2025 Investor Conference
Feb 2025
NextEra Energy amended its Audit Committee charter to assign oversight of risk from the company's use of AI to the committee.
2026 proxy statement
Oct 2025
NextEra Energy signed a 25-year agreement for Google to buy power from the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, to be restarted by early 2029, to help power Google's cloud and AI infrastructure in Iowa.
NextEra Energy
Dec 2025
NextEra Energy announced its Google Cloud partnership covering data center campuses and AI products and presented REWIRE as its AI product development platform at its investor conference.
2025 Investor Conference
Jan 2026
John Ketchum said NextEra Energy expected to launch its first REWIRE product, for AI-enhanced field operations and grid reliability, at an industry event in early Feb 2026.
Q4 2025 earnings call
Sep 2026
NextEra Energy launched Optos, a suite of grid and market optimization tools for utilities developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Google Cloud
Oct 2026
NextEra Energy reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution against its 2025 investor conference goal to use AI for customer solutions.
Q3 2026 earnings presentation

Economics & controls

Spend and ROI

Technology and AI spending

NextEra Energy has not disclosed a technology budget, what it spends on AI or the size of its Google Cloud commitment. Under the Dec 2025 Google Cloud partnership, Google receives the cloud revenue from jointly sold AI products and NextEra Energy receives the SaaS revenue, which NextEra Energy listed among the upsides to its earnings growth expectations.

Reported ROI

NextEra Energy has reported no realized business return credited to AI. NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference listed about $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on NextEra Energy Resources projects that reached commercial operation in 2024 on a slide about its AI plans, but an NPV is a modelled value and the deck does not say how much of it came from AI. NextEra Energy's other AI figures are not returns to the company either: 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided and 1.2 million additional megawatt-hours from generator uptime algorithms in 2024 carry no dollar value, the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, according to NextEra Analytics president Rich Argentieri (Sep 2026), and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI at NextEra Energy Resources is a 2026 to 2032 target. NextEra Energy expects REWIRE to drive significant cost savings across the business by 2028 without giving an amount, and its separate Velocity cost program has produced more than $3.3 billion of cumulative annual run-rate savings since 2013, a figure the company does not credit to AI.

Productivity markers

NextEra Energy says AI route optimization cut transmission routing time from more than two weeks to under 20 minutes (Dec 2025). John Ketchum said in Apr 2026 that FPL's non-fuel O&M is more than 71% below the industry average and that FPL is 50% more cost efficient than the second-best utility, crediting a focus on technology and cost control in general rather than AI alone.

Headcount

NextEra Energy had about 17,400 employees on Dec 31, 2025, about 9,400 at FPL and 7,900 at NextEra Energy Resources, and has made no statement linking AI to headcount. NextEra Energy's combination with Dominion Energy, which has about 15,000 employees, would create a company of about 32,600; NextEra committed in May 2026 to 18 months of job protection for Dominion Energy employees after closing, and in its Sep 2026 Virginia benefits package to maintaining Virginia headcount for five years.

Governance and risk

Board oversight

NextEra Energy amended its Audit Committee charter in Feb 2025 to assign the committee oversight of risk from the company's use of AI, and the committee discusses emerging AI developments and AI risk oversight with management at least annually. NextEra Energy's 2026 proxy says shareholders expressed interest in board oversight of new risks, including AI, during its 2024 to 2025 outreach, and the Audit Committee also receives regular risk reports from the chief risk officer, who oversees REWIRE.

Disclosed AI risks

NextEra Energy's Feb 2026 Form 10-K warns that the productivity gains it expects from AI may not be realized, and that AI tools may malfunction, produce inaccurate or biased output, behave unpredictably and add cybersecurity and data privacy risk. NextEra Energy also cites dependence on third-party vendors for AI tools and platforms, possible disputes over intellectual property and new obligations from evolving AI regulation, and repeated the AI risk in the cautionary statements of its Oct 2026 quarterly report.

Cybersecurity

NextEra Energy's vice president and chief information officer, vice president of cybersecurity and executive director of cybersecurity manage cyber risk, and the board receives cybersecurity reports from the chief information officer and the vice president of cybersecurity. NextEra Energy's Feb 2026 Form 10-K says the advance of AI has created new security risks for its critical infrastructure, which follows NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection and NRC cybersecurity standards.

Intellectual property

NextEra Energy owns 100% of the intellectual property in the AI products it develops and sells with Google Cloud under the Dec 2025 partnership, which lets NextEra keep control of tools built on its own operating data.

Recent signals

Oct 21, 2026
NextEra Energy's third-quarter 2026 presentation reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution, against the 2025 investor conference goal to use AI for customer solutions.
Q3 2026 earnings presentation
Sep 2, 2026
Google Cloud said NextEra Energy had just launched Optos, a suite developed with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, quoting NextEra Analytics president Rich Argentieri on Optos Composer.
Google Cloud
Sep 2, 2026
Rich Argentieri told a Google Cloud media roundtable that GridComposer, built on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and rolled out across FPL's generating fleet, had produced more than $20 million of savings for customers so far in 2026.
POWER Magazine
Jul 24, 2026
John Ketchum said the NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy combination would share practices in grid modernization, storm restoration, data analytics, AI and process improvement.
Q2 2026 earnings call
May 18, 2026
NextEra Energy agreed to combine with Dominion Energy, saying the combined company would use AI to drive efficiencies in development, construction and operations.
NextEra Energy
Apr 23, 2026
John Ketchum said NextEra Energy brought its first REWIRE products to market in the first quarter: Conduit, Generation Entitlement and GridComposer.
Q1 2026 earnings call
Apr 1, 2026
NextEra Energy's proxy statement said the Audit Committee oversees AI risk and that shareholders had expressed interest in board oversight of risks including AI during its 2024 to 2025 outreach.
2026 proxy statement
Feb 13, 2026
NextEra Energy's 2025 Form 10-K said the company uses AI in financial analysis, strategic planning, field work, work scheduling, grid optimization, energy forecasting, customer service and operations management, and reported about 17,400 employees.
2025 Form 10-K
Jan 27, 2026
John Ketchum said he expects NextEra Energy's team to use AI better than anyone in America and that Google Cloud is accelerating REWIRE, with a first product due at an industry event in early Feb 2026.
Q4 2025 earnings call
Dec 8, 2025
NextEra Energy's investor conference presented REWIRE as its AI product development platform and set a target of about $150 million a year in pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI at NextEra Energy Resources.
2025 Investor Conference
Dec 8, 2025
NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announced a partnership for gigawatt-scale data center campuses and NextEra's enterprise-wide digital transformation on Google Cloud AI, with a first product due in Google Cloud Marketplace by mid-2026.
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Quick answers

How does NextEra Energy deploy AI?: NextEra Energy deploys AI through REWIRE, an enterprise-wide AI program built with Google Cloud since Dec 2025 that delivers AI products to the utility industry, such as Optos, launched in Sep 2026. NextEra Energy's AI tools site projects, route transmission lines and dispatch FPL's power plants, and the company reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026. Chief risk officer Petter Skantze oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE, but NextEra Energy has reported no return it credits to AI and no count of employees using AI.
What does NextEra Energy use AI for?: NextEra Energy says it uses AI in financial analysis, strategic planning, field work, work scheduling, grid optimization, energy forecasting, customer service and operations management (Feb 2026), and reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026. NextEra Energy has published no realized business return credited to AI for any use case. NextEra Energy's Dec 2025 investor conference listed about $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on NextEra Energy Resources projects completed in 2024 on a slide about AI, a modelled value with no stated AI share, and NextEra Energy's other AI figures are not returns to the company either: 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided and 1.2 million extra megawatt-hours in 2024 are operating results, the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings at Energy Resources is a target.
Who leads AI at NextEra Energy?: AI at NextEra Energy is led by Petter Skantze (Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer); Rich Argentieri (President, NextEra Analytics). Ownership of AI on the org chart: EVP and Chief Risk Officer Petter Skantze, who oversees IT, NextEra Analytics and REWIRE.
What AI platform does NextEra Energy use?: REWIRE, the enterprise-wide AI transformation NextEra Energy presented with its Google Cloud partnership in Dec 2025, also serves as its AI product platform; NextEra launched its Optos product suite in Sep 2026 and keeps 100% of the intellectual property.
Which AI models does NextEra Energy use?: NextEra Energy builds on Google: GridComposer and Optos run on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Sep 2026), and grid forecasting pairs TimesFM 2.5 and WeatherNext 2 with NextEra's own algorithms. No other model provider is named.
How many NextEra employees use AI?: NextEra Energy reported more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution in Oct 2026 but has published no count of employees using AI tools among its roughly 17,400 staff.
How far has AI spread at NextEra Energy?: NextEra Energy has reported no business return it credits to AI, for any use case or for the company as a whole: the roughly $450 million of NPV gains through site and design optimization on 2024 NextEra Energy Resources projects, shown on a Dec 2025 investor conference slide about AI, is a modelled value with no stated AI share; the more than $20 million GridComposer saved in 2026 went to customers, according to NextEra Analytics president Rich Argentieri (Sep 2026); the 44,000 FPL truck rolls avoided using AI in 2024 carry no cost figure; and about $150 million a year of pre-tax savings from REWIRE and AI at NextEra Energy Resources is a 2026 to 2032 target. NextEra Energy has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a user count either: it counts more than 100 strategic AI initiatives under execution (Oct 2026), and Argentieri's Sep 2026 remark, as POWER Magazine reported it, that FPL technicians, whom he estimated at 85% to 90% of the workforce, use voice-activated AI tools gives a share of the workforce, not a count of AI users. NextEra Energy therefore stays at Experimenting, even with AI in production across FPL's generating fleet and in siting and routing at NextEra Energy Resources; one cost, revenue or headcount return it credits to AI, or a stated count of employees using its AI tools under chief risk officer Petter Skantze, who oversees REWIRE, would move it to Piloting.

Open questions

Who is NextEra Energy's vice president and chief information officer, who runs REWIRE day to day, and when did Petter Skantze take over the program?
What does NextEra Energy spend on technology, on AI and on Google Cloud, and how fast is that spending growing?
Does NextEra Energy offer employees a general generative AI assistant, and how many of its roughly 17,400 staff use AI tools each week?
Which models besides Google's run in REWIRE and NextEra Energy's own tools, and does any AI workload run in NextEra's data centers or on another cloud?
How much of the targeted $150 million a year in pre-tax savings at NextEra Energy Resources has been realized, and what will REWIRE save across the business by 2028?
Which utilities buy Optos and other REWIRE products, and how much SaaS revenue has NextEra Energy earned from them?
What do NextEra Energy's deployed tools return to the company itself, such as Conduit, Generation Entitlement, GridComposer (whose 2026 savings went to customers), AI drone inspections and predictive maintenance?
Which of NextEra Energy's more than 100 AI initiatives are in production, and which are still pilots?
How will REWIRE and NextEra Energy's AI tools extend to Dominion Energy's roughly 15,000 employees if the combination closes in 2027?

Sources

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News

POWER Magazine: NextEra, Santee Cooper point to real dollar savings from AI deployments (Sep 3, 2026)

Data confidence

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Estimated: Derived or approximated from public reporting.
Unconfirmed: Reported, but not yet corroborated.

NextEra Energy profile · Enterprise AI diffusion report by Imagine · facts checked against their sources on Nov 1, 2026

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