Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that allows you to connect to various sources of data, analyse them, and create interactive reports and dashboards. Power BI can help utility and energy industry companies to transform their operations and meet customer demands by providing them with actionable insights into their properties, tenants, employees, and competitors.
We are a Power BI Consultancy for utilities companies who want to take control of their data.
We provide the following:
– End-to-end Power BI projects from start to finish
– Managed service – choose the best SLA for your goals
– Training for your utilities BI and finance team
Features of Power BI that are useful for Utility Companies
Data connectors:
Power BI can connect to hundreds of data sources, such as SQL Server, Azure, Google Analytics, Excel and more. This allows utility companies to access and combine data from various platforms and systems. For a utility company. this could include meter reads, CRM software or financial systems.
Dashboards:
Power BI provides powerful data visualization tools that allow utility companies to create interactive and insightful dashboards. These dashboards can display key performance indicators (KPIs), consumption patterns, outage information, and other critical metrics in a visually appealing and easy-to-understand format.
Reports:
Power BI can generate detailed and insightful reports that drill down into the data and reveal the underlying patterns and trends. Utility companies can use reports to answer specific questions, explore scenarios, and compare outcomes. They can also apply filters, slicers, and bookmarks to their reports to focus on the relevant data.
Semantic models:
Power BI can build semantic models (datasets) that define the relationships and calculations among the data elements. Semantic models enable retailers to create consistent and accurate measures and calculations across their data sources, and use them in their dashboards and reports.
Q&A:
Power BI can answer natural language queries from the users, and provide visual and textual responses. Q&A allows property management companies to ask questions about their data in their own words, and get instant answers without writing any code or formula
Benefits of Power BI for Utility Companies
Energy Management
Power BI enables utility companies to analyze energy consumption patterns at various levels, including individual customers, regions, and demographics. This information can be used to identify opportunities for energy conservation, implement demand response programs, and optimize energy distribution networks.
Customer Insights
Power BI can help utility companies gain valuable insights into customer behavior, preferences, and satisfaction levels. By analysing customer data, such as usage patterns, billing history, and feedback, utility companies can personalize services, improve customer engagement, and enhance overall customer experience.
Cost Savings
By streamlining data analysis processes and enabling informed decision-making, Power BI can help utility companies identify cost-saving opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and improve overall operational efficiency. This can lead to significant cost savings over time.
Regulatory Compliance
Power BI provides robust reporting capabilities that help utility companies comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards. By generating accurate and timely reports on key metrics such as energy consumption, emissions, and reliability, utility companies can demonstrate compliance with regulatory mandates and ensure transparency with stakeholders.
Our experience in the Utility Industry
David Laws has in Utility and Energy Industry
David studied Engineering, Science and Technology at Loughborough University and then continued to study and gain vocational consultancy experience at the University of Cambridge on the Advanced Course of Design Manufacture and Management. David’s early career was mainly in Leadership roles in FMCG manufacturing company’s. These roles focussed on days and shift management and engineering teams in the production of food, drink and pharmaceuticals.
During this time David was involved in numerous projects. David used his technical and project management skills to drive process improvements in large organisations including Boots, Kerry Foods and Catalent. These projects included day to day implementation of continuous improvements methodology’s, as well as major engineering capital projects, labour saving and quality improvements. These roles involved responsibility for the short term and long term targets and strategy, as well as managing the day to day operational and engineering teams. This involved planning and scheduling of maintenance, capital and improvement activities.
During this time David was involved in numerous projects. David used his technical and project management skills to drive process improvements in large organisations including Boots, Britvic and Catalent. These projects included day to day implementation of continuous improvements methodology’s, as well as major engineering capital projects.
David transitioned into data analysis and MI reporting roles. His initial role was supporting 3M with their Excel point of sale (POS) reporting. This role saw him learn and develop ETL and database software skills as well as present data in Excel 2013 (the prequel to Power BI).
David then moved to contract roles which saw him develop reporting in a cross section of industries, including Energy, FinTech and specialist mortgage. This included working at the central reporting team within Eon, primarily working on optimising their reporting capabilities. David also worked within the data team at Robin Hood Energy optimising the data warehouse and working on reports for internal and external stakeholders. This working included creating and championing multiple reports in Power BI for business stakeholder.
David build on his skills ands moved into data engineering roles. These has seen him worked ingesting, integrating and migrating data for several organisations. This has seen him gain knowledge of the data architecture to supplement his reporting skills.
Since moving to Select Distinct in 2022 David has worked with a number of clients across a range of industries.
Why choose Select Distinct as your Power BI Expert?
- We work closely with your team to make sure it all goes smoothly
- We take a deep dive in your reporting set up
- We provide full strategy and training
- Service led business
- Mapped out five-step process
