Electric Utilities
Addressing climate changes and rapidly increasing supply-demand gap is on the top of the agenda of the Electric Utilities management worldwide. The industry has undergone progressive restructuring over the last decade along with significant regulatory changes to accommodate the associated change. While deregulation has benefitted the end-users tremendously, it has also resulted in plethora of complex operational challenges for the companies. While conformity to the restructuring and the regulatory actions combined defined the technology focus of the utilities in the past, the future seem to be focused on asset and resource optimization in regulated markets and enabling competitive edge in contestable deregulated markets.
To address these complex challenges, the Electric industry is looking for business partners in the form of technology service providers with deep industry focus and specialized competencies in solving industry problems like supply security, emissions control, reliability, energy efficiency and customer profitability etc. This is a remarkable shift from the past when utlities solely used to focus on technical expertise. The solutions which are gaining most ground in this space are in the areas of Demand Response, Work Force Optimization and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).
HCL has partnered with some of the leading electric utilities across the globe as the provider of innovative technology solutions and has helped these organizations in achieving complete business transformation. Our strong domain focus, a 360 degree technology offering and strong engineering background ensures a de-risked, best in class experience for our customers.
Our Electric Utilities sub-vertical focuses on the specific needs of our electric customers worldwide while offering solutions across the generation, transmissionn, distribution and retail business lines.
Generation
Climate Change and Supply security are the top challenges for the Generation segment. Improved operational efficiency and fuel diversity are the key steps that the industry is adopting to address these challenges.
HCL’s Enterprise Content Management service has helped the Generation companies to improve their work management with the help of a digitized repository of all technical documents. Our Plant Automation services can help Generation companies to leverage SCADA based solutions to manage distributed generation.
Our services help enterprises to improve capacity planning, ensure supply security, adopt multiple technology paths to reduce green house gas emissions and effectively manage distributed generation assets.
Transmission and Distribution
Growing dependence of the economy on power supply and increasing complexity of the transmission networks has driven reliability as the foremost requirement for the Transmission and Distribution segment.
Recognizing Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) as the key driver for change in this segment, HCL has provided services for products in the AMI segment. We have indepth capabilities in areas of Business Analytics which can help you to analyze the segment wise load data from Historians and Meter Data Management (MDM) repositories. Our GIS/GPS services for Mobile Workforce Management helps Utilities to locate their assets and mobile work force faster.
Our solutions help you to get an integrated view of the grid performance and reduce congestion by better demand and supply visibility. We offer an integrated information model to address cross-regional communication.
Retail & Customer Services
HCL has extensive experience in developing custom software in the Customer Information Systems (CIS) space. We have vast domain knowledge in complex billing and our expertise can help you in reducing the meter to cash cycle.
Our Application Integration services along with our expertise on Enterprise Work Management Systems will help you to gain an integrated view of your CIS ecosystem and help serve your customers better.
Enterprise Information Services
HCL offers a wide range of Enterprise Solutions across SAP, Oracle and Peoplesoft for some of the leading players in the Utilities industry. Our strong alliances with the leading enterprise product players ensure low risk execution of critical engagements.
Our Enterprise Transformation Services help you in creating a reliable, integrated business and technology environment.
