Indian integrated power company Tata Power has adopted California-based Databricks’ platform to accelerate data and AI transformation across all business clusters.

The goal is to enhance operational efficiency, improve decision-making and make digital innovation more scalable.

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 should enable intelligent grid management, power planning and optimisation, improved billing and collection, accurate renewable forecasting, and better operations across solar manufacturing and rooftop businesses while delivering a seamless, single-view user experience.

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 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.

A key highlight of this transformation is the adoption of Genie, Databricks’ AI agent that lets any employee talk to their data and get answers instantly. With its natural language interface, Genie redefines how organisations access enterprise data to generate insights, dashboards and analytics quickly and make better decisions.

“This partnership with Databricks marks a key milestone in our journey to build a future-ready, intelligent energy ecosystem,” said Praveer Sinha, CEO of Tata Power. “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 options while contributing to a resilient and sustainable power sector.”

Tata Power is reshaping energy behaviour across residential, commercial and industrial segments to accelerate the energy transition. Users are increasingly evolving into active energy participants, not just consumers, optimising their energy usage while contributing to grid flexibility, efficiency and a sustainable energy ecosystem.

“The energy sector is undergoing a profound transformation, and data and AI are at the heart of that change,” said Nick Eayrs, vice president at Databricks. “Together, Databricks and Tata Power are building a unified and scalable platform that brings together data, apps, analytics and AI agents, enabling faster innovation and more resilient, data-driven energy systems. This empowers Tata Power to optimise energy distribution, and drive smarter, more sustainable decision-making at scale.”

Tata Power aims to consolidate enterprise data on the Databricks platform, creating a foundation for initiatives and AI applications. In the medium term, this 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 data infrastructure by leveraging the platform’s capabilities, anchored by its internal centre of excellence and strengthened through a partner ecosystem.

Tata Power (www.tatapower.com), part of the Tata Group, is one of India’s largest integrated power companies with a portfolio spanning power generation, transmission, distribution, trading, renewable energy, storage and solar manufacturing. The company has a diversified portfolio of over 16GW with a rapidly growing share of clean energy and is committed to achieving net zero before 2045.

Headquartered in San Francisco with 30 offices around the globe, Databricks (databricks.com) offers a unified platform that includes Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse and Unity Catalog.