Expert Interview
Discover the key advantages of digital transformation from our in-house expert
Energy and utility companies are undergoing drastic change. Worldwide, we are enabling a massive energy transition, electrifying everything (causing increased loads), and experiencing extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. Accompanying all these changes are vast quantities of data that must be stored, managed and analyzed to operate today’s grid and plan for its future. In this era of change, digital transformation is widely considered to be key to business’ survival (Forbes). Rich Graves, VP of Product Management at Energy Exemplar, notes that the key tenants of digital transformation are collaboration, scalability, and taking advantage of advanced capabilities and technologies provided in the cloud.
Graves also notes that digital transformation begins with updating processes and moving to tools and technologies that provide more value than older, traditional resources. Moving to cloud technologies will allow energy and utility companies to uplevel their processes and gain competitive advantage. Accenture notes: “Energy companies that fail to take advantage of cloud’s connectivity, flexibility, and security will find it exceedingly difficult to achieve the business resilience, variable cost modes and value optimization capabilities that enable competitiveness.”
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Jerome Declerck, Group Manager – Enterprise Application Services
AEMO
"If I look at the modeling scenarios that AEMO produces - one is called an Integrated System Plan and this projects what the national electricity market, which is the eastern seaboard effectively of Australia, what it will look like in the next 20 years.
That's not easy to forecast, to model. So, we run a number of different types of scenarios, a central scenario and a step change scenario [in PLEXOS Cloud]. The step change is more of an accelerated transition of the energy sector.
We’re seeing improvements of up to 77% in our central modeling scenarios and upwards in the 90%s of our step change scenarios."
Ian Luciani, Head of Power Sector
BP
"PLEXOS is used by members of my team, and they often collaborate together - both users in Europe as well as users in the US. We have the Cloud version of PLEXOS, so everyone can view each other's runs, their cases. My interaction personally as a manager of users is primarily focused on understanding how my team have chosen to model the way they've modeled. And then of course, interrogating the results, doing the quality assurance on them."