Tata Power has announced the enterprise-wide adoption of the Databricks platform to accelerate its data and AI transformation across all business clusters – driving enhanced operational efficiency, smarter decision-making, and scalable digital innovation.
As Tata Power advances its transformation in line with the energy transition – spanning renewable integration, smart grids, and an expanding B2C portfolio – the company is building a future-ready data and AI platform to power its next phase of growth. This unified platform will enable intelligent grid management, advanced power planning and optimisation, improved billing and collection efficiencies, accurate renewable forecasting, and operational excellence across solar manufacturing and rooftop businesses while delivering a seamless, single-view customer experience.
Modern data foundation
To support this vision, Tata Power is leveraging Databricks to establish a modern data foundation that goes beyond traditional warehouses and fragmented analytics systems. Designed to process data at scale and enable near real-time insights, it will also support advanced analytics, AI and agents – underpinned by the governance and security of the Databricks platform. With Databricks, Tata Power can unify data engineering, analytics, and AI on a single, scalable platform, integrating edge, operational, and enterprise data, eliminating silos, and accelerating insight-led decision-making across the organisation.
“Genie”
A key highlight of this transformation is the adoption of Genie, Databricks’ AI agent that lets any employee talk to their data and get trusted answers instantly. With its natural language interface, Genie redefines how organisations access enterprise data to quickly generate insights, dashboards, and analytics and make better decisions, faster.
Intelligent energy ecosystem
Dr Praveer Sinha, CEO & MD, Tata Power said, “This partnership with Databricks marks a key milestone in our journey to build a future-ready, intelligent energy ecosystem. By leveraging the power of data and AI, we are strengthening our digital foundation to drive smarter operations, accelerate renewable integration, and deliver more agile, customer-centric solutions while contributing to a resilient and sustainable power sector.”
Consolidating enterprise data
Tata Power aims to consolidate enterprise data on the Databricks platform, creating a strong foundation for new initiatives and next-generation AI applications. In the medium term, this future-ready platform will enable self-service analytics, “talk-to-data” capabilities, and the democratisation of data and AI – driving faster, insight-led decision-making across the organisation. To bring this vision to life, Tata Power will build a robust data infrastructure by leveraging the platform’s capabilities, anchored by its internal Centre of Excellence and strengthened through a strategic partner ecosystem.
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Featured photograph shows (L to R): Kamalkanth Tummala, Managing Director–India, Databricks; Nick Eayrs, VP Field Engineering–APJ, Databricks; and Dr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & MD, Tata Power, at the announcement of the Databricks and Tata Power partnership to build a future-ready data and AI platform to accelerate the energy transition across Tata Power’s business clusters.