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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.

Kodion Energy manufactures those green utility boxes you see outside homes and offices. Those 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 transformer is the most important infrastructure on the grid," Okorie said.

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

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