Energy and utilities
Renewables, smart meters, new data center load and aging water systems all ask more of networks built for a different era. We build the data and API layer between operational technology and the platforms that analyze it, without touching what must not change.
Updated October 19, 2026
In an energy company, a data problem is a reliability problem.
Your operational network works and is protected for good reason. Your analytics and AI teams want what it knows, and your regulators want reports built from it. For a water utility, the same is true of treatment plants, pump stations and meters.
Aging OT and SCADA
A gap between the grid and the data platform is a reliability risk with public safety dimensions. Operators end up deciding on readings that someone exported by hand.
What waiting costs: decisions made on data that is already old.
Reporting
FERC, state utility commission and sustainability reporting need data infrastructure many companies have not built. Each number in a filing should trace to a source, and today many trace to a spreadsheet.
What waiting costs: filings assembled by hand, with no trail behind each number.
Critical infrastructure
Integration points between operational and enterprise systems create risk that a standard enterprise security posture does not cover, and the NERC CIP standards set the bar for bulk electric system assets.
What waiting costs: the integration you need becomes the one you cannot approve.
New load
Large new loads, led by data centers, are asking for connections at a pace that interconnection studies, load forecasts and capital plans were not built for. Each request needs planning, asset and field data in one place.
What waiting costs: answers that take months, and a forecast that is out of date before it is filed.
| Market | What supervisors are looking at | What it means for an agent |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards for bulk electric system cyber systems, including electronic security perimeters and information protection, approved and enforced under FERC. State public utility commissions for rates, reliability and reporting. For community water systems, risk and resilience assessments and emergency response plans under America's Water Infrastructure Act, certified to the EPA. | No path from an agent or an analytics platform back into a control network, whether it runs a grid or a treatment plant. Every interface between OT and IT is documented, owned and approved. Data used in a filing carries its lineage. |
| United Arab Emirates | The national Information Assurance Standards for critical information infrastructure, under the UAE Cyber Security Council, and emirate-level energy regulators such as the Department of Energy in Abu Dhabi. | The same one-way, governed path, with data kept in country where the rules require it. We confirm the local rulebook at the start of every engagement. |
| Other markets | Each grid has its own reliability regulator and critical infrastructure rules. | The questions are the same and the filings differ. We confirm the local rulebook at the start of every engagement. |
The data sits at the edge of the grid and does not reach the people and models who could use it. Closing that gap safely means a one-way, governed path, not another direct connection.
Which of your operational systems can feed modern analytics today, and who approved the path?
One governed path out, nothing back in
We open one governed, one-way path out of the operational network first, then build analytics and reporting on what flows through it.
Apigee between operational and enterprise systems, with policy, logging and one owner per interface.
You hold: an approved path your security team can draw on one page.
Apigee and APIsMeter and asset events carried as event streams on Google Cloud into BigQuery, with the operational network untouched.
You hold: live operational data where analysts and models can use it.
Vertex AI, BigQuery and dataRegulatory and sustainability reports built from governed data in BigQuery, with models on Vertex AI flagging readings that fall outside the expected range.
You hold: a filing where every number traces to its source.
Vertex AI, BigQuery and dataInterconnection requests, load forecasts and asset data brought together on BigQuery, with models on Vertex AI for load and capacity scenarios that planners review.
You hold one governed view your planners use to answer a large load request.
Vertex AI, BigQuery and dataEasy to start
Choose one workflow, name one owner, and give us time with the people who sign it off.
We bring engineers and the gateway design, we work inside your environment under your security rules, and we write the review pack alongside the build.
A good first workflow is one reporting obligation built from one data feed, or the data behind one large load request. See the fixed-price ways to start.
What the work feels like
One workflow is chosen and one person owns it. The questions your reviewers will ask are written down before any build starts. Your OT security lead approves the data path before any data moves.
Governance goes in before the first agent does: the gateway, the audit trail and the access rules. Your risk team sees them working.
A working demo you can show your own review board, not a status slide.
A decision log that can rebuild any action, and a go-live date that was agreed at the start.
Seen it before
Production readiness check
A short readiness check on a live or planned agent workflow. You get a score and the principles worth another look.
Take the readiness checkNo. We design a governed, one-way path out of the operational network, and your operations and OT security teams approve it before any data moves. Nothing we build writes back into control systems.
Yes. Data and models stay inside the environment, region and controls you set, and every model reads governed data in place instead of a copy.
Your compliance team decides how each interface sits against the CIP standards that apply to your assets. We document every interface, its owner and its controls as we build, so the evidence is ready when your auditors ask for it.
Yes. We read from a historian, replica or one-way gateway your OT team already trusts, and we do not replace the control systems underneath.
Yes, when the report is built from governed data with lineage. A model can flag gaps and outliers, and a person signs the number that goes into the filing.
Yes. Treatment plants and pump stations raise the same question as substations: how to get operational data out safely. We build the same one-way, governed path, and your operations team approves it before any data moves.
We bring the planning, asset and operations data a request needs into one governed place, with models that test load and capacity scenarios. Your planners and engineers make the decision.
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