Advance decarbonisation with data-driven innovation

Energy and utilities are evolving toward decentralisation, digitisation, and decarbonisation. This shift not only affects commercial models, physical infrastructure, and operations, but also demands a reimagining of the systems architecture needed to control, govern and assure delivery of safe and efficient utilities services.

However, implementing this kind of transformation at a large scale, while ensuring affordability, requires a new approach, one that prioritises placing interconnected data and digital innovation at its core. Establishing seamless data flow, quality, and usage is essential to cost-effectively drive innovation and build a secure energy and utilities ecosystem.

Our team of energy management consultants, utilities experts, and data professionals partner with you to navigate this complex transition. We coordinate data silos to create ecosystems, safely modernise legacy systems, and operationalise technologies like AI to future-proof your energy operations, drive efficiencies, and deliver lasting impact.

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Can digitalisation accelerate the path to Net Zero?

The path to sustainable energy usage hinges on more than just adopting clean energy resources. It requires a reimagining and restructuring of the entire energy system through data-driven innovation. Explore how digitalisation can optimise energy systems and shape the sustainable future we're all working toward.

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' With Zühlke’s support as an expert partner, we were able to implement our digitalisation strategy quickly and effectively. '
Fabian von Arx
Head of Control Systems/MSR Energy Contracting, EKZ

Let’s build a data-driven energy ecosystem together

Drawing on extensive experience in the global energy and utilities sector, our experts help tap into the full spectrum of opportunities that modern technologies can deliver while reducing business risks, costs, and time to market.

  • Adopt a data-driven approach

    Improve decision-making and drive collaboration by effectively using data along the entire value chain. Drawing on deep expertise in building secure data platforms that enable the use of open data, we can help your organisation play its role in decarbonising the energy system and develop new digital capabilities for lasting success.

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  • Unlock the power of AI

    Tap into new opportunities in energy by putting AI to work where it delivers the most value. From improving operational efficiency to optimising grid performance and accelerating innovation, we help you embed AI responsibly, ensuring ethical use, regulatory compliance, and secure deployment.

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  • Transform systems through digitalisation

    Digitalisation is critical to building resilient, future-ready energy systems. We help build agile, digitally enabled organisations that quickly adapt to change, supporting in everything from digitising internal processes to designing, building, and managing cloud-based digital products and platforms.

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  • Improve operations with connected IoT devices

    Connected devices are transforming the energy sector, making systems more intelligent, responsive, and resilient. From real-time monitoring of generation assets to predictive maintenance across transmission networks, IoT-powered devices give you the visibility and control to optimise operations, minimise downtime and reduce risk.

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  • Accelerate the energy transition

    The energy transition demands more than isolated innovation. It requires a coordinated, data-driven approach to modernisation. We help public and private energy organisations modernise legacy infrastructure and IT systems into connected, data-driven ecosystems to improve visibility, unlock tangible value, enable collaboration, and accelerate sustainable transformation.

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  • Strengthen your cyber defences

    Improve resilience by adopting the necessary capabilities to safely navigate uncertain times and leverage opportunities presented by change. Our team of 125+ global cybersecurity consultants, is ready to evaluate optimal solutions for safeguarding your employees, customers, and critical energy systems.

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Adopt a data-driven approach

In and of itself, data is of little use. You need to leverage it properly to unearth true value. 

Our consultants help make both a technical and a mindset shift within your energy or utilities organisation to unlock the full potential of data. By leveraging LLMs and machine learning technologies, we safely extract data from operational systems and enhance it through integration with diverse, complementary data sources, all while ensuring regulatory adherence and state-of-the art security.

See how we demonstrated the value of data ecosystems for EV energy infrastructure:

Unlock the power of AI

AI isn’t magic — it’s a logical process fuelled by high-quality data, strong foundations, and clear business purpose.

We help energy and utilities organisations move from experimentation to scalable, AI-powered solutions. Whether it's embedding intelligence into products or optimising systems, our experts help you efficiently transition from idea to implementation. 

With a focus on secure, ethical, and value-led AI, we ensure you're ready to innovate at scale.

Explore how we helped an industrial company leverage GenAI to optimise efficiency:

Transform systems through digitalisation

In a world where change is inevitable, we tap into our digital expertise and human-centred design to help you confront and adapt to change proactively.

With Zühlke as your partner, you can turn digital transformation into a strategic advantage. Our experts are here to help you navigate the build-versus-buy dilemma, cloud migration, and can help create an environment where innovation thrives.

Explore how we developed a cloud migration strategy for an energy service provider:

Improve operations with connected IoT devices

The future of energy runs on intelligent, connected infrastructure.

We partner with you to develop and deploy IoT devices that deliver actionable insights — whether you're managing grid assets, forecasting system performance, or maintaining critical infrastructure. From prototyping to full-scale implementation, we turn complexity into operational clarity. 

Our teams combine strategic expertise and domain experience with hardware and software engineering excellence to design and scale secure, cost-efficient IoT solutions for complex, regulated energy environments.

See how we helped Solar-Log accelerate the integration of renewable energy into the grid:

Accelerate the energy transition

Navigating the energy transition is complex. Legacy systems hinder innovation, create fragmented data, and lead to time-consuming maintenance, instability, and scalability issues. 

With our comprehensive energy consulting approach, we help chart the right path forward. From defining scalable digital strategies and rethinking business models to conducting technical due diligence and enabling renewable energy-to-grid integration. 

Zühlke connects infrastructure with real-time data and actionable insights, creating the foundation for a future-proof, interoperable energy system.

Discover how we shaped a unified digital governance model to support integration across the UK’s energy system:

Strengthen your cyber defences

The frequency of cyberattacks on energy infrastructure has increased, driven primarily by financially motivated attacks such as ransomware. Plus, the increasing digitalisation of the power grid and the integration of a larger number of smaller generation assets have expanded the grid’s attack surface.

Cybersecurity defences now emerge as a critical priority for safeguarding operations.

To help proactively measure and mitigate cyber threats, we carry out multi-layered security assessments and train your team to serve as a defensive 'firewall' against cybercriminals.

With our world-class engineers, your digital presence is protected, meeting compliance needs without compromising on user experience.

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EV infrastructure app uncovers the complexity of electric vehicle challenges

Explore how our pioneering Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Investor App uncovered the complexity of EV challenges and illustrated the power of data ecosystems in helping government, energy, and transport bodies to solve them.

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Unlock the future of Net Zero Living with the help of data

Explore our Net Zero Living knowledge base, recently created and growing every day to aid data practitioners and accelerate the delivery of the transition to net zero.

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How to secure EV charging infrastructure?

The National Test Institute for Cybersecurity (NTC) uncovered critical vulnerabilities in Switzerland’s public charging infrastructure, highlighting the need for improved security in this rapidly growing industry.
Discover key recommendations for securing the EV infrastructure from our Global Head of Cybersecurity and founder of the NTC.

Let's tackle your energy and utilities challenges together!