The energy value chain · data and AI · built for India

From meters and molecules to an intelligent, AI-native energy company.

Discoms fight AT&C losses and collection gaps, renewables reshape the daily schedule, power moves onto exchanges in fifteen-minute blocks, pipelines and plants must prove their integrity, and regulators ask how every tariff, emission and safety number was reached. The answer runs across the whole value chain — from how power is generated and delivered to how a consumer is billed and the ledger closes. SCIKIQ is the governed data and AI platform that helps utilities, oil and gas companies and resource businesses make that shift, one domain at a time.

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Value-chain domains, from generation to the ledger
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Data & AI opportunities mapped on this page
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SCIKIQ service lines, mapped to those domains
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Example data products in an energy data marketplace
Grid event → decisionIllustrative
Power distributionState and private discoms, distribution franchisees and smart-metering service providers: AT&C losses, billing, collection, RDSS.
Generation, renewables & tradingThermal, solar, wind and hybrid generators, transmission utilities and trading desks: forecasting, scheduling, DAM / RTM bidding, DSM, RECs.
Oil & gasUpstream, refining, cross-country pipelines, city gas distribution and fuel retail: integrity, HSE, outlet and network analytics.
Mining, metals & heavy industrySteel, cement, aluminium, refractories and mining: OEE, kilns and furnaces, energy intensity and emissions.
The story in six chapters

How an energy company becomes AI-native — and where each part of this site fits

Chapter 1 · The pressure

Seven forces reshaping the energy company

Energy companies organised around assets — a plant, a grid, a pipeline, a billing system — now compete on decisions made across all of them. The ones pulling ahead treat data as a product and AI as an operating capability, not a set of pilots. In India, these are the pressures they are responding to.

Losses

AT&C losses decide discom viability

Technical losses, theft, faulty meters, unbilled energy and slow collections erode revenue before and after it is invoiced. Loss-reduction targets are now tied to the funding discoms depend on.

Data & AI: feeder- and DT-level energy accounting, theft detection, inspection targeting and collection analytics.

Renewables

Variable generation reshapes the schedule

Solar and wind make every fifteen-minute block harder to forecast. Forecast errors become deviation charges, and thermal fleets are asked to flex harder than they were built to.

Data & AI: plant-level generation forecasting and scheduling options for the desk.

Markets

Power moves onto exchanges, block by block

Day-ahead, real-time and term-ahead markets, green segments, RECs, derivatives and market coupling mean prices and positions change every fifteen minutes — and solar hours can push real-time prices close to zero.

Data & AI: price and load forecasts, bid preparation, DSM watch and settlement reconciliation for the trading desk.

See the market data
Integrity

Integrity and safety must be proven

Pipelines, gas networks, plants and substations carry safety-critical risk, yet surveys and inspections are often captured on paper and designs checked by hand.

Data & AI: offline field capture with anomalies flagged at source, and AI review of piping drawings.

Emissions

Decarbonisation with numbers that hold

Steel, cement and power face carbon-intensity scrutiny from buyers, lenders and regulators. Energy per tonne and emissions per unit have to be measured, not estimated.

Data & AI: plant-level energy and emissions tracking with lineage to the meter and the furnace.

Regulation

Regulatory load compounds

Tariff petitions and true-ups, grid-code compliance, reform-scheme milestones and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act all ask for traceable data, delivered faster.

Data & AI: lineage behind every filing and consumer record, and AI-assisted regulatory data packs.

Technology

OT and IT that don't talk

SCADA, meter data, billing, GIS, plant historians and ERP were bought separately and speak different languages. AI that acts on this has to be governed, explainable and safe.

Data & AI: a data product factory and marketplace across OT and IT, and agents with autonomy limits and audit trails.

So what

Every pressure lands somewhere on the value chain.

The response isn't one platform or one model — it is data and AI applied domain by domain, from the plant to the meter, on a shared, governed foundation.

See where, domain by domain ↓
Chapter 2 · The value chain

Where data and AI pay back across the energy company

The power chain from generation and the grid to the consumer and the trading desk, oil, gas and heavy industry, the assets they all depend on, and the group functions underneath. Select a domain to see the data it runs on, the AI opportunities, and what SCIKIQ does there.

Domain 1 of 8

Generation & renewables

Solar and wind now swing the daily schedule. Every fifteen-minute block has to be forecast and scheduled to the SLDC or RLDC, forecast errors turn into deviation charges, and thermal units are asked to ramp harder than they were designed for.

Data it runs on

SCADA & plant historiansWeather, irradiance & wind forecastsDay-ahead & intraday schedules (SLDC / RLDC)Deviation settlement statementsUnit heat rate, availability & fuel dataPPAs & open-access contracts

Data & AI opportunities

  • Solar and wind generation forecasting by plant and pooling station, per 15-minute block
  • Schedule and re-schedule recommendations to the SLDC / RLDC that cut deviation exposure
  • Plant performance: availability, PLF, heat rate and auxiliary consumption analytics
  • Curtailment and inverter / turbine underperformance detection

What SCIKIQ does here

  • One generation data model joining SCADA, forecasts, schedules and settlements
  • Forecasts published as governed data products the trading desk and schedulers subscribe to
  • Schedulers decide what is submitted; agents prepare the options
Domain 2 of 8

Transmission & grid operations

More renewables, more inter-state flows and new storage make the grid harder to balance. Outages, line loading and protection events are logged in separate systems, and asset condition is known only when something trips.

Data it runs on

SCADA / EMS eventsLine & transformer loadingOutage & trip logsProtection-relay recordsSubstation inspection dataNetwork GIS

Data & AI opportunities

  • Congestion and line-loading early warning
  • Trip and outage root-cause analysis from event logs
  • Transformer and substation health scoring
  • Inspection-report and relay-record extraction with GenAI

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Grid events, loading and asset condition on one timeline
  • An outage and availability feed published once and reused by trading and planning
  • Grid operators keep every switching decision; agents observe and advise
Domain 3 of 8

Power distribution, billing & consumers

Aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses decide whether a discom survives. Theft, faulty meters, estimated bills and slow collections hide in millions of consumer records — and smart prepaid metering under RDSS creates the data to fix them, if feeder, meter, billing and payment systems can be joined.

Data it runs on

Smart prepaid & conventional meters (AMI / MDM)Feeder & DT energy accountingBilling, collection & UPI / BBPS paymentsSubsidy & tariff dataVigilance & inspection recordsNetwork GIS, outages & complaints

Data & AI opportunities

  • Feeder- and DT-level energy accounting that locates AT&C losses
  • Theft and meter-tamper detection, with inspection lists ranked for vigilance teams
  • Smart-meter data validation, prepaid balance alerts and estimated-bill reduction
  • Collection-efficiency, arrears prioritisation and bill-dispute triage
  • Payment, prepaid recharge and subsidy reconciliation with breaks explained

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Meter, billing, payment and network data joined from feeder to consumer
  • Every suspected-theft case arrives with the readings and pattern behind it
  • Officers decide inspections, penalties and corrections; DPDP Act consent rules enforced in the data and the workflow
Domain 4 of 8

Power trading & markets

Power is now bought and sold in fifteen-minute blocks on the Day-Ahead, Real-Time and Term-Ahead markets, in green segments and RECs, bilaterally and through derivatives — while market coupling, deviation-settlement reform and solar-hour price collapses change the rules. A trading desk lives or dies by how fast it can trust its forecasts and positions.

Data it runs on

Exchange results: DAM, RTM, TAM, Green DAM / TAMSchedules, bids & portfolio positionsLoad & RE generation forecastsDeviation settlement (DSM) accountsREC holdings & bilateral / VPPA contractsWeather, fuel & derivatives prices

Data & AI opportunities

  • Price and load forecasting by 15-minute block for DAM and RTM
  • DAM / RTM bid preparation and portfolio balancing across own generation, PPAs and the exchanges
  • DSM exposure minimisation and imbalance watch through the day
  • Green DAM, REC and VPPA strategy; derivatives hedging
  • Market-coupling readiness, settlement and reconciliation

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Market, schedule and forecast data products the desk can trust by gate closure
  • Bids and hedges drafted with the evidence; a trader submits every one
  • Settlement reconciled daily, every break explained
Domain 5 of 8

Oil, gas & pipelines

From upstream fields to refineries, cross-country pipelines, city gas distribution and retail fuel outlets, integrity and safety data is captured in the field, often on paper, and pipeline designs are checked by hand.

Data it runs on

Production & refinery historiansPipeline integrity & cathodic-protection surveysPiping isometrics & design documentsCity gas network & meter dataRetail outlet sales & stockHSE incidents & permits

Data & AI opportunities

  • Offline field capture of cathodic-protection surveys with anomalies flagged at source
  • AI review of piping isometric drawings for design errors
  • Retail-outlet and CGD demand and stock analytics
  • HSE incident and permit-to-work text analysis

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Field, design and operations data on one traceable asset record
  • Integrity engineers see readings, GPS and photos together, not on paper
  • Engineers sign off every integrity and design decision; agents flag and draft
Domain 6 of 8

Mining, metals & heavy industry

Steel, cement, aluminium and mining run on furnaces, kilns and fleets where energy is the biggest cost and emissions the biggest scrutiny. Plant data lives in historians and spreadsheets, a long way from the margin it decides.

Data it runs on

Plant & kiln performanceProduction & OEEQuality & defect recordsEnergy & fuel consumptionEmissions & sustainability dataInventory & supplier performance

Data & AI opportunities

  • OEE, downtime and kiln-utilisation analytics by plant
  • Energy intensity and emissions per tonne produced
  • Quality defect root-cause analysis
  • AI insights and natural-language questions over plant data

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Production, quality, energy and emissions on one plant data model
  • Plant heads get a daily view of what changed and why
  • People run the furnace; agents watch it and explain the variance
Domain 7 of 8

Asset integrity & maintenance

Transformers, turbines, compressors and pipelines are inspected on calendars rather than condition. Maintenance history is free text, spares are stocked for the worst case, and safety-critical findings wait in inboxes.

Data it runs on

CMMS / SAP PM work ordersCondition-monitoring & sensor dataInspection & survey readingsFailure & downtime logsSpares & storesAsset registers & GIS

Data & AI opportunities

  • Condition-based and predictive maintenance from sensor and failure history
  • Voice-first, multilingual answers over maintenance records and technical documents
  • Risk-based inspection planning
  • Spares optimisation by asset criticality

What SCIKIQ does here

  • One asset record from sensor and survey to work order and spare
  • Recommendations the maintenance planner can trace to the signal
  • Planners and engineers decide; agents prepare the work and the evidence
Domain 8 of 8

Finance, ESG & regulatory

Tariff petitions, true-ups and regulatory filings to CERC and SERCs ask for numbers that reconcile to the meter. Energy cost decides margins at every site, and ESG and BRSR disclosures add another set of figures to defend.

Data it runs on

Regulatory filings & tariff ordersGeneral ledger & cost dataPower-purchase costSubsidy & government receivablesEmissions & renewable-purchase dataSite energy bills & run-hours

Data & AI opportunities

  • Regulatory-filing data packs with lineage to source
  • Site and fleet energy-cost analytics and what-ifs
  • Plan-versus-actual variance with AI commentary
  • Emissions, renewable-purchase-obligation, ESG and BRSR Core reporting

What SCIKIQ does here

  • Reconciliation, close, FP&A and commentary accelerators configured for utility data
  • Lineage from meter and trade to the ledger and the regulator
  • Agents draft entries, packs and commentary; finance and regulatory teams approve

Opportunities and approaches are described qualitatively. Shaded chips are SCIKIQ service lines; the others open accelerators. See every service line mapped to these eight domains

Power trading · India

Power is moving to markets — fifteen minutes at a time

Market data, not SCIKIQ results. India's short-term power market keeps growing, the Real-Time Market is its fastest-growing segment, and the rules are changing under traders' feet.

302 BU
Short-term power transacted in FY2025-26 — 17.7% of 1,707 BU in total
84%
Exchange share held by IEX (141.14 BU); PXIL 11%, HPX 5%
96 BU
Bilateral trades in FY2025-26; 37.49 BU settled through deviation (DSM)
30.4 M
RECs traded in 2024-25, up from 11.6 million

The segments a desk trades

Day-Ahead Market (DAM)Next-day delivery in 15-minute blocks; the price reference
Real-Time Market (RTM)Gate closure one hour ahead; fastest-growing segment in 2025-26
Term-Ahead Market (TAM)Contracts for delivery up to 90 days ahead
Green DAM / TAM & RECsRenewable power and certificates for RPO and green buyers
Bilateral & VPPADirect contracts; VPPA guidelines from December 2025
Deviation settlement (DSM)The price of being off schedule
DerivativesMonthly baseload contracts on MCX and NSE since July 2025

What is changing

  • May 2025RTM prices fell to near zero between 09:00 and 13:00 on 25 May as solar oversupplied the market.
  • Jul 2025CERC ordered phased market coupling, starting with the DAM. Electricity derivatives launched on MCX and NSE after SEBI approval.
  • Dec 2025Guidelines for virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs).
  • Apr 2026Draft amendment proposes Grid Controller of India as Market Coupling Operator — one uniform clearing price across exchanges.
  • May 2026Deviation-settlement reform moves to daily weighted-average pricing.

So what for a trading desk: forecasts, positions and DSM exposure have to be right by gate closure, every block — which makes trusted, on-time data products the deciding capability.

Market data from Indian Infrastructure, July 2026 (FY2025-26 volumes, regulation) and Power Line, October 2025 (FY2024-25 RTM prices, RECs). Not SCIKIQ results.

Chapter 3 · The foundation

Energy data marketplace & data product factory

Trading desks, discom operations, generation, finance and regulatory teams all need the same forecasts, schedules, meter data and market results — on time, trusted and governed. We build them once as data products in a factory, and publish them in a marketplace where every team can discover, request and subscribe to them.

1 · Sources
SCADA / EMS & historiansAMI / MDM & billingExchange results, schedules, DSMWeather & fuelAsset & maintenance AWS: Amazon S3, AWS IoT, AWS Glue / DMS · third-party data via AWS Data Exchange
2 · Data product factory
Connect → Curate → Contextualize → Consume (4C)Named owner per productData contract: schema, freshness SLA, quality checksLineage, versions & access policy AWS: AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue Data Quality, AWS Lake Formation
3 · Data marketplace
Catalog with business glossaryDiscover, request & subscribeApproval workflowsShare with partners; buy third-party data AWS: Amazon SageMaker Catalog (Amazon DataZone) · AWS Data Exchange
4 · Consumers
Trading deskDiscom operationsGeneration & schedulingFinance & regulatoryAI agents AWS: access granted through AWS Lake Formation / Amazon Redshift

Cloud-agnostic: the same pattern runs on Azure (for example Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric) or on-premise.

Example data products in an energy marketplace

Illustrative catalog entries — owners, freshness and consumers are agreed with you; “Subscribe” is not live here.

Data product

Day-ahead 15-minute load forecast

Owner
Discom power-procurement cell
Freshness
Published by 09:00 IST for DAM bidding
Consumers
Trading desk, discom ops, finance
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

RE generation forecast by plant & pooling station

Owner
Generation forecasting lead
Freshness
Day-ahead by 09:00 IST; intraday revisions each block
Consumers
Schedulers, trading desk, grid
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

DAM / RTM price curve & forecast

Owner
Head of trading analytics
Freshness
Within 15 minutes of exchange clearing
Consumers
Trading desk, risk, finance
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

DSM exposure tracker

Owner
Scheduling manager
Freshness
Every 15-minute block, near real time
Consumers
Trading desk, schedulers, finance
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

Meter-health & theft-risk scores

Owner
Metering & vigilance in-charge
Freshness
Daily by 06:00 IST
Consumers
Vigilance, discom ops, revenue
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

Outage & availability feed

Owner
Grid operations head
Freshness
Event-driven, within 5 minutes
Consumers
Trading desk, planning, consumer service
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

REC & Green DAM position

Owner
RPO & green-power manager
Freshness
Daily, plus each trading session
Consumers
Trading desk, ESG, regulatory
Contract · lineage · policy
Data product

Settlement & reconciliation status

Owner
Accounts officer (power purchase)
Freshness
Daily by 11:00 IST
Consumers
Finance, trading desk, audit
Contract · lineage · policy

The factory: what every product carries

  • Owner — a named person accountable for the product, not a team inbox
  • Data contract — schema, freshness SLA (for example “published by 09:00 IST for DAM bidding”) and quality checks that block a bad release
  • Lineage & versions — from the meter, SCADA tag or exchange file to every consumer
  • Access policy — who may subscribe, with consumer data protected under the DPDP Act
  • Steward agent — checks contracts and freshness every cycle and raises a breach to the owner

Built on the SCIKIQ Data Fabric's 4C method. The framework →

How it maps to AWS

Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone, lets producers group assets into “well-defined, self-contained packages” called data products, publish them with business metadata, glossary terms and metadata-enforcement rules, and route consumer subscriptions through approval, with access granted through AWS Lake Formation or Amazon Redshift. Publish · Subscribe

AWS Data Exchange is the external marketplace — 3,500+ data products from 300+ providers, delivered as files to Amazon S3, as Amazon Redshift tables or through APIs — to buy weather, fuel or carbon data, or to share your own products with partners. Source

Data mesh: producer domains — generation, grid, trading, discom — own their products; consumer domains subscribe through one central catalog, with permissions managed in AWS Lake Formation. AWS guidance

SCIKIQ in short

One governed platform, with energy built in

Nine service lines that advise, build, transform and run — delivered on three pieces of SCIKIQ IP, so utilities, oil and gas and resource companies start from working components rather than a blank page.

Chapter 5 preview · Our supervised digital workforce

How agentic operations work

In a business where a wrong action can black out a feeder or breach a pipeline, agents observe, flag and draft; the arithmetic runs in SQL; a named engineer or officer decides. Nothing happens off the record.

A feeder starts losing energy Illustrative
SCAN · FEEDER VS BILLED ENERGY
REASON · DTs & METERS AFFECTED
QUANTIFY · REVENUE AT RISK
ROUTE · OFFICER DECIDES
People supervise the exceptions

The agent compares feeder input with billed energy, finds the distribution transformers and meters behind the gap, ranks premises for inspection and drafts the list. The vigilance officer decides who is inspected.

See the energy agent squads
  1. Step 1
    Agents watch the estate

    Scanners run over SCADA, meter, billing, GIS and plant data on the governed Data Fabric and surface signals with hard numbers.

  2. Step 2
    Policy & autonomy decide

    Each agent has an autonomy level. Anything touching grid switching, plant control or pipeline safety stays at observe or suggest.

  3. Step 3
    Owners approve exceptions

    Every finding carries the evidence, a rupee impact, a named owner and an SLA — accept, assign, escalate or dismiss.

  4. Step 4
    Logged & evaluated

    Every plan, tool call, guardrail check and decision is logged; overrides feed evaluation, and a kill switch halts all agents.

Accelerators

Accelerators, by the service they speed up

Platforms we have built for oil and gas assets, site energy, pipeline integrity, piping design, ESG and heavy industry, generalised into configurable starting points — plus cross-industry accelerators our teams configure to utility data, rules and controls.

Transform · COO, asset & integrity heads

Energy accelerators

Each runs on the SCIKIQ Data Fabric.

About Oil, Gas & Asset Integrity
Asset Intelligence Assistant
Accelerator · Multilingual, voice-first asset AI

A multilingual LLM platform over the maintenance system and hundreds of thousands of technical documents. Field engineers ask by voice, in their own language and in noisy plants, and get answers with on-demand visualisations.

Energy 360 for Distributed Sites
Accelerator · Site energy passport & stress lab

Joins electricity billing with operational run-hours by source — grid, diesel generator, battery and solar — into a per-site energy passport, a composite Energy-360 score, a what-if stress lab and solarisation and anomaly opportunities.

Covers Grid, DG, battery and solar • per-site passport
Field Integrity Collector
Accelerator · Offline pipeline-survey capture

A mobile app for cathodic-protection surveys that works with no signal: reads a digital voltmeter over Bluetooth, stamps every reading with GPS and its accuracy, flags under-protected sections at the point of capture and syncs in batches with retry.

Survey types
CISDCVGACVGACCA
Covers 4 survey types • offline-first, iOS and Android

Cross-industry accelerators below are configured to utility data in an engagement; their demo pages run on banking sample data.

Value calculator · Operations & Finance services

What could a supervised agent squad free up?

Enter your own volumes. The estimate compares today's manual handling with agents working the cases and people reviewing only the exceptions.

cases
e.g. bill disputes, meter exceptions, settlement breaks or inspection reports
min
₹ / h
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Cases agents close within policy, with no human touch
min
Time for a person to check the agent's draft and approve
Estimated impact
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Hours saved per month
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FTE equivalent (150 h / month)
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Cost saved per month
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Cost saved per year
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Cases per month one supervisor can oversee

Estimate only, not a quote or a SCIKIQ result. Manual hours = cases × minutes ÷ 60. Supervised hours = cases × (1 − STP share) × review minutes ÷ 60. Hours saved = manual − supervised. FTE = hours saved ÷ 150. Cost saved = hours saved × cost per hour (× 12 for a year), shown in lakh (L) and crore (Cr). Supervisor capacity = 150 h × 60 ÷ ((1 − STP share) × review minutes). Excludes platform and run costs.

Advise · Data & AI maturity assessment

Where are you on the maturity curve?

Our assessment scores 12 capability layers — from the secure AI gateway and data fabric to ontology, context engineering, agents and governance — against five stages, using evidence rather than opinion.

  1. 1FoundationalExperiment
  2. 2EmergingPilot
  3. 3OperationalScale
  4. 4SystemicOrchestrate
  5. 5TransformationalAI-native

MIT CISR found enterprises at stages 3–4 perform well above their industry average financially, while those at stages 1–2 perform below it. Source

Start with the outcome you need

Tell us the problem — a feeder that loses energy, collections that lag, bids that miss gate closure, deviation charges, survey data on paper, a plant whose energy per tonne won't move, a platform to modernise. We'll propose an assessment or a 30-45 day pilot, delivered by SCIKIQ teams on our framework and accelerators.

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