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Building the intelligence foundation for the energy transition

BKW FMB Energie AG

BKW, a Switzerland-headquartered energy and infrastructure company, needed a more scalable, integrated approach to working with complex weather and geospatial data to support decisions across energy production, grid management, and infrastructure services as renewable penetration and climate volatility rise. BKW partnered with Microsoft to combine Aurora (an AI weather foundation model from Microsoft Research AI for Science and Microsoft AI Weather), Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro with AI Weather Grid HD EU data catalogs, and Azure-native infrastructure (Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Apps, Azure Application Insights, and an MCP server) into a unified platform for AI-driven weather and geospatial intelligence, with BKW retaining governance over how insights are applied. The collaboration is described as an exploratory, foundation-building engagement rather than a production deployment, giving BKW's data scientists, domain experts, and technology teams a shared, governed platform and supporting its net-zero and sustainable energy goals.