/ Energy & Utilities
Utility-grade data, from field to control room
NERC CIP programs that pass audit, grid and asset analytics on live operational data, and renewable integration that keeps the grid stable. Built for utilities and energy companies by engineers who respect an outage window.
- NERC CIP programs
- OT/IT convergence
- Grid analytics
- ISO 27001
Energy and utilities practice
Operational data engineered and run 24/7.
Why utility data stalls
Every signal from the field,
live in the control room.
Smart meters, renewables, and DERMS pilots throw off signals worth acting on. We bring SCADA, historians, and billing onto one governed platform, keep NERC CIP evidence flowing as a byproduct of normal operations, and leave the systems that keep the lights on exactly where they are. The planning team sees the grid as it is right now.
99.97%Uptime across 72+ servers
A complex digital estate kept available around the clock with automated DevOps and monitoring. The operations bar we hold for infrastructure that cannot go down.
Read the case study
/ What we build for energy
Six disciplines. One rule: the grid stays up.
Energy technology consulting scoped to the rules you answer to: FERC, NERC CIP, and an OT estate that cannot go down.
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NERC CIP compliance
Security controls, automated evidence collection, and continuous monitoring built to what a NERC CIP audit actually checks. One utility went into its audit 100 percent ready, came out with zero critical findings, and cut compliance effort by 60 percent. FERC and state regulators read the same evidence.
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Splunk
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Grid analytics
Real-time platforms that pull SCADA, meter, and sensor data together for grid monitoring, outage prediction, and load optimization. Operators see the grid as it is right now, not as last night’s batch left it.
SCADAOutage predictionLoad optimizationAzure
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Asset performance management
Predictive maintenance for critical assets that extends life and prevents failures. For one regional gas and electric utility, IoT monitoring with ML cut unplanned outages by 24 percent and saved $190K a year in maintenance, at 99.5 percent grid reliability.
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Databricks
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Renewable integration
Solar and wind forecasting, storage optimization, and the balancing analytics that keep intermittent generation from destabilizing the grid. DERMS-ready data foundations, because distributed resources are a data problem before they are a turbine problem.
Solar & wind forecastingDERMSStorage optimizationGrid stability
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OT/IT convergence
Operational and information technology connected for unified visibility without opening a path back into control systems. Segmented networks, one-way data flows where the risk warrants them, and controls aligned to IEC 62443.
IEC 62443Network segmentationReal-time dataOT security
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Customer analytics
Demand forecasting, customer segmentation, and rate structure optimization on the meter and billing data you already collect. The regulator sees a defensible rate case; the planning team sees next summer coming.
Demand forecastingSegmentationRate optimizationAMI data
/ Compliance & security
Built to the rulebooks you answer to.
Every platform we build for a utility is designed against these frameworks from the first architecture diagram, so the audit reads the system, not a binder assembled the week before.
NERC CIP
Critical infrastructure protection
SOC 2 Type II
Security controls
ISO 27001
Information security
NIST CSF
Cybersecurity framework
IEC 62443
Industrial cybersecurity
TSA Pipeline
Pipeline security
100%
NERC CIP compliance achieved, with zero critical audit findings
60%
Reduction in compliance effort
24%
Reduction in unplanned outages
99.5%
Grid reliability achieved
/ Results
Operational data, held to an operational bar.
Enterprise Technology Company
99.97%Uptime across 72+ servers
Automated DevOps and 24/7 monitoring across a complex estate. The same operations discipline we bring to OT and IT environments that cannot go down.
Read the operations story
Global Food Services Operator
53Countries on one data platform
One governed platform for 400,000 employees replacing dozens of regional reporting stacks, with decisions landing 22% faster. Global operational data at utility scale.
Read the story
Global Financial Services Firm
90dFrom prototype to production
Azure Data Lake, Databricks, AKS, and Synapse connected into one governed foundation for analytics and machine learning.
Read the Azure Lakehouse story/ How an engagement runs
Five phases. No science projects.
01
Assess
Weeks 1 to 2
Inventory the estate: SCADA, historians, meters, and the compliance obligations attached to each. The first use case is picked here, against a number you already report.
02
Architect
Weeks 2 to 4
Data platform design with segmentation, one-way flows, and IEC 62443 alignment decided up front, not retrofitted after the first audit question.
03
Build
Weeks 4 to 12
Pipelines from the operational estate into the governed platform, shipped in increments and tested against live field data.
04
Prove
Parallel run against the numbers operations already trusts. Nothing cuts over until the control room agrees the new view is right.
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Run
Around-the-clock operations under SLAs, or a clean handover with runbooks written for the night shift.
The compliance program is only as good as the data.
NERC CIP evidence, outage prediction, and renewable forecasting all stand on the same foundation: grid, meter, and asset data engineered into one governed platform. That is our data engineering practice, and utilities are where it earns its keep.
Data Engineering/ Why ACI
Why utilities build with us
/ Scale
Founded 2006.
1,200+ engineers across 11 global delivery hubs. 500+ enterprise projects.
/ Compliance
ISO 27001 certified and CMMI Level 3 appraised.
Audit evidence comes out of normal operations, not a scramble before the review.
/ Operations
24/7 managed operations under published SLAs.
The platform stays watched after go-live.
/ Delivery
The architects who scope the work are the ones who build it.
No handoff between the pitch deck and the delivery pod.
/ Energy & utilities FAQ
Energy questions,
answered straight.
Can you help with NERC CIP compliance?
Yes. We build the security controls, evidence collection, and monitoring that NERC CIP audits look for, automated where it spares your team screenshot season. FERC and state regulators read the same evidence.
How do you approach OT/IT convergence securely?
Segmented networks, one-way data flows where the risk warrants them, and controls aligned to IEC 62443, so grid and plant data reach analysts without opening a path back into control systems.
What do you build for grid and asset analytics?
Platforms that pull SCADA, meter, and asset data together for outage prediction, load forecasting, and maintenance planning. Operators see the grid as it is right now, not as last night's batch left it.
Do you support renewable integration?
Yes. Solar and wind forecasting, storage optimization, and the balancing analytics that keep intermittent generation from becoming an operations problem. It is a data problem before it is a turbine problem.
Do you work with our existing historians and SCADA vendors?
We integrate what you already run, historians like PI, SCADA, and your EMS, rather than proposing a rip and replace. Utilities do not get maintenance windows for science projects.