IBM collaborates with Bharat Light & Power

Intending to drive business growth and build smarter operations, Bharat Light and Power (BLP) has formed a strategic engagement with IBM. In this 10-year collaboration, BLP will use IBM’s SoftLayer cloud capabilities, built on open standards, as well as IBM analytics and mobile solutions to increase its power generation capacity.

According to industry estimates, approximately 400 million people in India do not have access to electricity. At the same time, India’s energy infrastructure is highly strained, with an ever- increasing demand for energy. To sustain its growth trajectory, India needs to meet its energy demands in an environmentally sustainable manner.

The Indian power sector has doubled its capacity in the last 10 years and is projected to add another 100GW in the next five years. With the issues facing fossil-based fuels, a good share of this growth will come from renewable energy sources. The scope of investments for renewables is estimated to be $10–12 billion in the next five years, making it ripe for global investments in India, said Tejpreet S. Chopra, President & CEO, BLP.

By making clean energy widely available and affordable, BLP is solving a very important challenge for India and we are excited about collaborating with BLP on this transformative journey. We see tremendous potential for smarter operations, using cloud and analytics, in achieving scale and efficiencies in this business. As a strategic partner, we will deliver measurable business outcomes to BLP by bringing together expertise and capabilities across IBM, said Ajoy Menon, Director of Strategic Outsourcing, Global Technology Services, IBM India South Asia.

IBM will work with BLP to help the company manage, and effectively use the vast amount of data generated by the power generation sources. With efficient and predictive analysis of data, energy producers can better manage their resources, take necessary precautionary measures, and improve overall productivity. IBM will deploy its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as a service to centrally monitor and manage BLP’s existing and future generation plants as well as store and manage the data on cloud.