Slovenské Elektrárne Saves Over 2,100 Workdays a Year with Microsoft Foundry AI Agents
Slovakia's largest electricity producer built AI agents and a company-wide chatbot on Microsoft Foundry in a secure hybrid architecture kept separate from nuclear plant operations. The system saved roughly 1,800 workdays in 2025 on technical and regulatory documentation, another 340 days on quality-plan processing, and over 90 workdays annually through AI summarization, with more than 1,200 employees a month using the internal chatbot backed by 10 specialized agents.
Overview
Slovakia's largest electricity producer built AI agents and a company-wide chatbot on Microsoft Foundry in a secure hybrid architecture kept separate from nuclear plant operations. The system saved roughly 1,800 workdays in 2025 on technical and regulatory documentation, another 340 days on quality-plan processing, and over 90 workdays annually through AI summarization, with more than 1,200 employees a month using the internal chatbot backed by 10 specialized agents.
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Inspect the highlighted sourceThe challenge
As Slovenské Elektrárne's operations expanded across nuclear, hydro and renewable plants, critical knowledge became scattered across systems and documents, slowing decision-making and increasing operational risk, while aging infrastructure and accumulated technical debt were slowing IT service delivery.
The solution
Working with Microsoft, Slovenské Elektrárne built a cloud-native data and analytics platform and used Microsoft Foundry to develop AI-powered agents and a company-wide chatbot within a secure hybrid architecture that connects on-premises systems with the cloud, kept outside core nuclear plant operations. GitHub Copilot helped accelerate development. Employees ask questions in natural language and receive contextual answers drawn from documentation, enterprise systems and historical data, and the organization used Azure Vision to transform 29 terabytes of scan data into a structured digital map of 327 assets.
Reported business value
AI-driven automation saved around 1,800 workdays in 2025 on technical and regulatory documentation alone, plus a further 340 days on quality-plan processing and more than 90 workdays annually through AI summarization, for over 2,100 workdays saved annually in total, while more than 1,200 employees a month now use the internal chatbot, backed by 10 specialized agents.
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