Power System Technology
Our Power system technology practice uniquely combines extensive core power sector expertise with a deep understanding of cutting-edge technologies to deliver innovative solutions for the power and utilities industry. With proven experience across power generation, grid monitoring, load dispatch, transmission, and distribution, our dedicated teams focus on diverse areas including power system operations, market operations, logistics support, system monitoring, mobility solutions, and emerging technologies. Serving numerous national and regional clients in India and expanding internationally, we are at the forefront of guiding the sector through digital transformation.
Our vision is to lead the modernisation of the power industry by empowering utilities, regulators, and energy companies with advanced tools and strategies, fostering a smarter, more reliable, and environmentally sustainable power grid for the future.
Our unique value proposition
We bring unmatched capabilities and domain experience to ensure the successful delivery of power sector engagements. As the oldest power sector consulting firm in India with nearly 30 years of experience, we possess a rich legacy of advising clients across the entire power value chain.
We have a proven track record of implementing digital solutions for a wide array of stakeholders including system operators (NLDC/RLDCs/SLDCs), transmission and distribution utilities (STUs/Discoms), and regional power committees (ERPC/NERPC). Our multi-stakeholder expertise spans digital transformation, automation of business functions, regulatory and policy frameworks, and an understanding of the Indian power market dynamics. Our close engagement with key central and state-level stakeholders enables us to bring critical contextual insights, helping clients navigate complex challenges specific to their environment.
PwC uniquely stands out through:
- Deep industry expertise
- Holistic approach
- Global network, local insights
- Digital expertise and proficiency
Deep industry expertise
A team of seasoned professionals combining extensive power sector knowledge with comprehensive understanding of the Indian regulatory landscape.
Holistic approach
End-to-end services encompassing strategy, planning, technology implementation, and change management to deliver seamless transformation.
Global network, local insights
The strength of our global best practices and technology partnerships, fused with our strong local presence to address India’s unique challenges and unlock opportunities.
Digital expertise and proficiency
Equipped with industry-leading tools, sector-specific accelerators, and frameworks, we guide utilities through their digital transformation journeys by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Generative AI and Machine Learning to drive innovation and operational excellence.
Choosing PwC means partnering with a trusted advisor capable of driving innovation and delivering measurable value across the evolving power sector ecosystem.
Solution areas
| Electricity open access | This solution streamlines open access transitions by coordinating activities among buyers, sellers, traders, and grid operators. The workflow involves the online submission of applications, automated processing based on grid transfer capability constraints, and electronic issuance of approvals, including the exchange of consents with relevant load dispatch centres. |
| Electricity scheduling | This solution facilitates electricity scheduling for various entities. It has a provision for the declaration of generation capacity and demand, matching of demand-supply, merit order dispatch, creation of schedules, intra-day revision of schedules and finalisation of schedules for sellers and buyers. |
| Meter data management | This offering manages data received from electricity meters installed at utility interface points (e.g., generator ex-bus, transmission-distribution, etc.). It has provisions for mapping meters with interface point, configuring meter details, validating data and calculating electricity flow at each interface point |
| Electricity accounting, imbalance settlement and reconciliation | This solution prepares electricity accounts for each entity and calculate transmission losses. It has the feature to generate imbalance settlement accounts as per the regulatory framework. The comprehensive solution also includes payment collection, integrating with leading banks and automated reconciliation, tracking TDS payment and performing 26 AS reconciliation. |
| Transmission outage management | This solution assists in creating and approving requests for planned outage and restoration of transmission elements. |
| E-logbook and control room management | This offering automates logbook and operational activities in the control room. It provides real-time interactive dashboard for tracking shift activities. |
| Financial accounting | The tool supports system operator in managing billing, collection and disbursement of fees and charges. It can handle entity-wise billing and reconciliation. The user can configure tax parameters, regulatory levies, incentives and penalties, etc. |
| Analytics and reporting | This offers a capability to analyse various parameters captured in the entire solution for efficient planning, operation and faster decision making. It has the capability to generate standard and customised reports and dashboards for stakeholders. |
| Ancillary services market and dispatch | This option facilitates ancillary market starting from utility registration, market requirements for day ahead and real-time horizon, bid aggregation and encryption, market clearance, results declarations. Realtime ancillary dispatch to balance the grid combining market cleared data, un requisitioned power from generator schedule and emergency generator pool. Energy accounting and reporting. |
| Energy portfolio management solution | Optimising power sale and purchase costs helps utilities achieve better asset utilisation, faster decision-making, and improved trading efficiency. Real-time visibility of portfolios and enhanced regulatory compliance contribute to greater grid security. |
| Security constrained economic dispatch | The solution enables ISOs to optimise variable costs through economic dispatch, using automation and real-time data integration with external systems. Its robust design adapts to regulatory changes and integrates seamlessly with existing energy scheduling for optimal results. |
| AI powered forecasting | Forecasting of future energy demand and supply to provide insights for energy planning, infrastructure development, capacity expansion and load balancing. RE forecasting leveraging advanced ML algorithms using weather, satellite data identifying complex patterns between atmospheric conditions and energy generation. |
| Payment accounting and reconciliation | Comprehensive solution for payment collection integrating with leading banks and automated reconciliation. Tracking TDS payment and performing 26 AS reconciliation. |
| Transmission corridor margin optimisation | Solution optimizes transmission corridor usage to handle real-time market transactions, running 48 sessions daily across 3 Indian power exchanges. Our solution enables rapid data validation and flow optimisation within a 7-minute window, preventing session failures and ensuring grid security. |
| PowerGrid AI Suite: Intelligent regulatory and operational insights | A comprehensive solution for regulatory chatbots, generative AI grid assistants, scenario planning, simulation, and "what-if" analyses. The platform features explainable AI through SHAP analytics, automated observations and recommendations enabled by real-time monitoring, regulatory reporting capabilities, an executive dashboard, and natural language summaries. |
Application development approach advantages
Modern tech stack
Build on modern tech stack based on microservice principles, greater agility in development and deployment.
Automated deployment
Automated CI/CD pipelines streamline the deployment process.
Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes
Orchestrates the deployment, scaling, and management.
DevSecOps integration
Automates security compliance and vulnerability management.
Proven and tested solutions
Built on tried-and-tested accelerators deployed across India.
Seamless integration
Seamless integration with national, regional, states, PXs and other third-party applications.
Standardised APIs
ensuring effective communication and interoperability with other systems.
Simplified management
Centralised intuitive management interfaces enable easier configuration and monitoring.
Customisable configurations
Businesses can customise the platform by changing the configuration from user interface. E.g. master data, utility configurations, accounting parameters.
Deployment on new business unit
Step by manual guides, video tutorials, automation scripts.
In the event that changes are required to comply with new or state-specific regulations, PwC can implement these modifications on top of the base product with customization.
Statistics
Reduction in the application processing time for open access approvals in certain category of applications
Energy transactions handled per month at national level
Payment transactions successfully handled via payment gateway and reconciliation
Times APIs have been accessed by the market participants.
Our achievements
Over technology implementations in the Indian power sector
SAMAST projects completed across SLDCs
Multiple national critical portals implemented, launched and efficiently operated
Value created
- Optimisation of dispatch of resources resulting in lower costs for utilities
- Meeting multiple business requirements with single integrated solution
- Improved business processes (workflow-based user-friendly processes)
- Data consistency among reports (single source of truth)
- Flexibility in terms of adding new features / reports to meet business requirements
- Reliable system with high availability (through deployment of robust hardware and business continuity planning)
- Easy upgrading and updating of the software
- Enhanced transparency through publishing of standard reports on the website
- Significant saving in human efforts and minimizing possibilities of human errors
- Improved regulatory compliance and enhanced transparency
Solution provides information and insights to the policy makers and regulators which will help them define holistic policies and regulations to develop power system and electricity market
Success stories
Supporting India’s power market transformation via National Open Access Registry (NOAR) for GRID-INDIA
