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.
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
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.
With SCIKIQ: 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.
With SCIKIQ: 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.
With SCIKIQ: price and load forecasts, bid preparation, DSM watch and settlement reconciliation for the trading desk.
Pipelines, gas networks, plants and substations carry safety-critical risk, yet surveys and inspections are often captured on paper and designs checked by hand.
With SCIKIQ: 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.
With SCIKIQ: 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.
With SCIKIQ: 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.
With SCIKIQ: 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 another point tool or a single model — it is data and AI applied domain by domain, from the plant to the meter, on one governed platform.
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.
Power: generate, deliver & tradeOil, gas & resourcesAssetsGroup
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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 & RECs
Renewable power and certificates for RPO and green buyers
Bilateral & VPPA
Direct contracts; VPPA guidelines from December 2025
Deviation settlement (DSM)
The price of being off schedule
Derivatives
Monthly 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.
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.
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
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.
SCIKIQ Agent Factory · 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 energyIllustrative
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.
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 configured to utility data, rules and controls.
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.
CoversGrid, 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
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Covers4 survey types • offline-first, iOS and Android
Enter your own volumes. The estimate compares today's manual handling with agents working the cases and
people reviewing only the exceptions.
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.
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.