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Plenitude builds machine learning models on Databricks to forecast energy demand and renewable production

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…ation, giving it a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing energy market. Leveraging advances in data, statistical models and ML, Plenitude’s Energy Management Function implemented accurate demand forecasting models that predict customers’ consumption, with hourly and daily granularity, supporting a fast and effective decision-making process. In addition, Plenitud…
…ortfolio where customer consumption is supplied by a renewable asset portfolio. This requires advanced forecasting models for the expected generation, as renewable sources production is strictly dependant on weather conditions, which have been implemented both for wind and solar assets by Plenitude’s Energy Management Function. Finally, Plenitude is optimizing sales through customer segmentation and propen…

Company

Plenitude

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…rts and dashboards running on Databricks 60 Use cases implemented on Databricks Plenitude is a company owned by Eni that integrates production from renewables, energy sales, energy services and a large network of electric vehicle charging points. Plenitude leverages data and AI for optimized efficiency organizationwide. Migr…

Industry

Energy

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…y supportive in achieving future organizational goals.” Share this post Details Industry : Energy Product : Delta Lake , Delta Sharing Ready to get started? Try Databricks for f…

Deployment model

Cloud

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…nts. Plenitude leverages data and AI for optimized efficiency organizationwide. Migrating to the Databricks Data + AI Platform on the cloud, the company expanded data usage, enhancing operational efficiency and customer engagement through demand forecasting, segmentation and personalization. A fragmented cluster-based tool Plenitude provides energy to 10 million househo…

Problem

Plenitude's on-premises legacy environment had higher costs, which impacted the organization's ability to deliver value to the business and limited collaboration across data teams. Managing various data sources and types impacted the company's ability to enable downstream analytics for BI, SQL and ML for various data teams and stakeholders in terms of time to market, skill diffusion, data quality and trust.

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…e developed data management platform for their on-premises legacy environment. “Our old model had higher costs. This impacted the organization’s ability to deliver value to the business, and collaboration opportunities across data teams — including data science, engineering and analysis,” Sergio Leoni, Head of Data Engineering and Data Platform at Plenitude, said. Paolo Maltese, Data & AI Platform Product Owner at Plenitude, explained, “The c…
…said. Paolo Maltese, Data & AI Platform Product Owner at Plenitude, explained, “The challenges around managing various data sources and types impacted our ability to enable downstream analytics for BI, SQL and ML for various data teams and stakeholders in terms of data product time to market, skill diffusion for data analysis and understanding, data quality and trust.” Without unified data in a democratized and mature structure, Plenitude was usin…

Applicable regulations

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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…providing unified visibility and communication across silos. Paolo explained, “We use Unity Catalog to secure the data, grant access with profile-based controls and comply with GDPR. It helps us reduce data integration, better classify and understand data and sh…

Business value

Since migrating to the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Plenitude has enabled easier cross-organization data sharing, reduced time to market, and continuously updated software with no additional costs for upgrades. The company has implemented up to 60 use cases and analyzes up to 500 reports and dashboards to understand customer behavior and future needs, applying this in marketing, product development and communications.

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…nning, proactively identifying customers most in need of products and services. Analyzing up to 500 reports and dashboards, Plenitude has implemented up to 60 use cases to understand customer behavior and future needs. Applying this data in marketing, product development and communications helps P…
…investments more modularly and flexibly to connect costs to the value produced. Benefits include reduced time to market, continuously updated software and no additional costs for upgrades.” This shift has allowed Plenitude to capitalize on data team productivity and a…

Description

Eni-owned energy company Plenitude, which serves 10 million households and businesses across Europe, uses statistical models and machine learning on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to forecast customer energy consumption at hourly and daily granularity, forecast wind and solar generation from its renewable asset portfolio, and run customer segmentation and propensity models across 60 implemented use cases.

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…forecasting, segmentation and personalization. A fragmented cluster-based tool Plenitude provides energy to 10 million households and businesses across Europe and operates in over 15 countries worldwide. Managing hundreds of TBs of data from energy sales, services and charging point…
…ation, giving it a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing energy market. Leveraging advances in data, statistical models and ML, Plenitude’s Energy Management Function implemented accurate demand forecasting models that predict customers’ consumption, with hourly and daily granularity, supporting a fast and effective decision-making process. In addition, Plenitude manages an integrated portfolio where customer consumpti…

Solution

Plenitude migrated to the Databricks Data + AI Platform in the cloud, using Delta Lake to manage and analyze large data volumes, Databricks SQL for downstream analytics, and Unity Catalog to secure data, grant access with profile-based controls, and comply with GDPR. Leveraging data, statistical models and machine learning, Plenitude's Energy Management Function implemented demand forecasting models predicting customer consumption at hourly and daily granularity, and forecasting models for expected wind and solar generation from its renewable asset portfolio. Plenitude also runs customer segmentation and propensity models to identify customers most in need of specific products and services.

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…ion, but into more valuable, stable and trustworthy data products,” Paolo said. Using Delta Lake on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Plenitude maximizes the flexibility and scalability of their infrastructure to manage and analyze their large data volumes. Accelerating job execution are table storage features, such as managed tables a…
…providing unified visibility and communication across silos. Paolo explained, “We use Unity Catalog to secure the data, grant access with profile-based controls and comply with GDPR. It helps us reduce data integration, better classify and understand data and sh…

AI capabilities

Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning

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…ation, giving it a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing energy market. Leveraging advances in data, statistical models and ML, Plenitude’s Energy Management Function implemented accurate demand forecasting models that predict customers’ consumption, with hourly and daily granularity, supporting a fast and effective decision-making process. In addition, Plenitud…

Technology

Databricks Data + AI Platform, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Power BI

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…mputational power with business needs to avoid downtime due to shared services. Integrated with Power BI, Plenitude is also delivering compliant reporting and dashboarding via single sign-on (SSO) access to the Databricks Platform, and their serverless SQL assists in interactive queries against the data. Addi…

Region

Europe

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…forecasting, segmentation and personalization. A fragmented cluster-based tool Plenitude provides energy to 10 million households and businesses across Europe and operates in over 15 countries worldwide. Managing hundreds of TBs of data from energy sales, services and charging point…

Deployment options

cloud

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…nts. Plenitude leverages data and AI for optimized efficiency organizationwide. Migrating to the Databricks Data + AI Platform on the cloud, the company expanded data usage, enhancing operational efficiency and customer engagement through demand forecasting, segmentation and personalization. A fragmented cluster-based tool Plenitude provides energy to 10 million househo…
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