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Digital Vision: Energy & Utilities

Our Vision

Given the pressures on the energy and utilities sector, it’s clear that a digital edge is a precondition of a successful, sustainable business. With deregulated markets and the rise of renewables, companies need to harness digital technologies to reinvent the way they operate and become truly data-driven.

Forward-thinking organizations are forging new relationships and creating innovative value chains and solutions that add value in people’s businesses and homes.

This paper explores key challenges for utilities in our fast-changing world and the opportunities to safeguard the digitally enabled future, for this industry and for the customers it serves.

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Key topics for energy and utility companies

Optimized and reliable infrastructures

Safe, efficient, cost-effective plant operation and maintenance are critical for every utility company.

How do digital enablers create opportunities to optimize utility operations and equip the workforces of the future?

Intelligent real-time grid management

Decentralized generation and renewables have changed grid management forever.

How can utility companies integrate connected technologies for winning grid management strategies and a mixed energy economy?

Truly data-driven customer services

Few individuals or organizations exist ‘off-grid’.

So how do forward-looking companies harness digital channels and data to create and sustain mutually beneficial relationships with their customers?

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How drones are powering the future of utilities

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Why artificial intelligence is essential for utilities’ success in the new world

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Why batteries are the key component in the new energy mix

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How utilities can help smart cities drive a greener future

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The ‘Digital Twin’ is expected to have a tremendous impact along the entire E&U value chain – improving the performance of the power generation plant, high voltage distribution network, low voltage transportation line, sub-station and…

Extending human capabilities for the Utilities field workforce

Technology is driving disruptive change at break-neck speed. Robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and process automation, amongst others, are radically changing the nature of work. To remain competitive, organizations need to adapt quickly, adopting new business models, tools, processes…

Envisioning the platform-based utility ecosystems of tomorrow

Platform-based ecosystems are predicted to account for 30% of all global revenues by 2025. For the energy industry, platform-based ecosystems are critical to digitalization and the basis for a new change of paradigm. What does this mean for…

Cognitive cybersecurity approaches: Protecting utility OT in a hyper-connected world

Edge devices, the Internet of Things, wearables and swarm computing: emerging systems are enabling new utility business models. But they can also expose critical energy networks to new security threats. In a hyperconnected…

Business platform models – vital for building novel ecosystems in an era of utility liberalization

Utility companies across the world are facing one of the biggest threats in their history: liberalization. Customers are becoming completely free to select their utility provider, including…

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