Utilities are integrating wind, solar, storage, and conventional assets at an unprecedented pace. Yet most hybrid plants and grid portfolios still rely on fragmented telemetry systems, spreadsheets, and disconnected dashboards to understand how their energy mix behaves.
When operators ask, “Why did we curtail wind last week?” or “How much gas could we have avoided if storage operated differently?” the answers often require days of manual reconciliation. By the time insights are produced, the opportunity to improve performance may already be lost.
That is why we built the Energy Mix Intelligence App powered by the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. It transforms disparate telemetry and market feeds into a governed, mix-centric intelligence layer that supports real-time monitoring, historical replay, and strategy design, without interfering with physical plant control systems.
From fragmented telemetry to a unified mix view
Hybrid plants connect multiple resources to a single point of interconnection: wind, solar, storage or hydrogen systems, and gas turbines. Each resource often reports into separate historians and dashboards. KPIs are calculated independently, leading to inconsistent definitions of renewable share, curtailment, or reserve sufficiency.
zeb consolidates SCADA, storage controllers, ERP systems, grid metrics, IoT sensors, weather forecasts, and market feeds into a Lakehouse architecture. Bronze captures raw signals, Silver aligns timestamps and units, and Gold exposes trusted mix-focused KPIs.
The result is a single source of truth for energy mix, net load, reserve margins, storage utilization, and carbon intensity.
Real-time visibility with operational depth
The app provides operators and performance engineers with:
- A live mix stack showing wind, solar, storage charge/discharge, and gas output
- Renewable share and curtailment metrics at fine time granularity
- Storage utilization and emissions intensity indicators
- Drill-down views for specific intervals such as evening ramps
When new strategies are introduced, baseline versus current comparisons highlight how the mix evolves over time. Instead of relying on siloed control screens, teams share a unified operational picture.
Replay inefficiencies and identify root causes
Energy-mix performance issues are rarely isolated events. Curtailment may occur while storage is underused. Gas output may remain elevated due to conservative reserve assumptions.
The Day Replay and Root-Cause module synchronizes mix charts, storage state of charge, gas ramping behavior, grid constraints, and event logs. Episodes exceeding predefined thresholds are cataloged and analyzed automatically. A GenAI assistant summarizes likely causes using correlations across telemetry, forecasts, and constraints, turning forensic review into a structured improvement process.
Design and test new operating strategies
The Forecast and Strategy Sandbox enable engineers to simulate alternative operating policies without touching plant control systems.
Users can adjust storage schedules, gas minimum levels, or curtailment thresholds. ML-based forecasts of wind, solar, and load inform scenario runs. Each scenario calculates expected renewable share, curtailment, gas usage, fuel cost, and emissions. Results are stored and compared against baseline operations, allowing quantified evaluation of proposed changes.
Connecting operations to economics and sustainability
For plant leadership and executive teams, zeb provides governed scorecards linking daily mix decisions to financial and decarbonization outcomes.
Monthly views track renewable share by technology, storage contribution, curtailment causes, fuel costs, and emissions intensity. Outputs are audit-ready and governed under Unity Catalog, supporting regulatory engagement and ESG reporting.
What makes zeb’s approach different
- Mix-centric canonical model instead of siloed asset reporting
- Direct integration of ML outputs into operational dashboards
- Natural-language GenAI assistant grounded in governed KPIs
- Enterprise-grade governance and lineage through Unity Catalog
- Utilities-focused design aligned with operational efficiency goals
Start improving hybrid plant performance
Renewable integration requires more than adding assets; it requires managing the mix itself as an optimizable process.
zeb’s Energy Mix Intelligence App provides utilities with a governed Lakehouse foundation, advanced forecasting, structured replay analytics, and scenario-based optimization to improve reliability, reduce curtailment, and align operations with sustainability goals.
If your organization is operating hybrid plants or managing a growing renewable portfolio, zeb can help you build a data-driven energy mix intelligence layer tailored to your operational model.
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