Transform complexity into clarity for energy & utilities.
With dbt, energy and utility companies can modernize legacy systems, standardize reporting, and gain the transparency needed to meet regulatory requirements and sustainability goals.
Common use cases in Energy & Utilities
Energy and utilities companies must manage massive amounts of operational data while meeting strict compliance requirements and advancing sustainability goals. These are the high-impact ways dbt helps providers, distributors, and regulators stay compliant, resilient, and future-ready.
Regulatory compliance & auditability
Ensure energy production and usage data meets standards like FERC, NERC, and ESG reporting frameworks. With built-in version control, audit logging, and lineage, dbt makes it easy to prove compliance, reduce reporting risk, and maintain trust with regulators and stakeholders.
Reliable emissions & grid reporting
Establish a single, trusted source of truth across generation, distribution, and consumption data. dbt enforces consistency and transparency, reducing errors and enabling more reliable reporting for compliance filings, emissions tracking, and investor disclosures.
Protect critical infrastructure data
Protect sensitive operational data with role-based access controls, encryption, and secure architecture. dbt helps energy and utilities organizations safeguard critical infrastructure data while aligning with global compliance and cybersecurity standards.
Scale energy & customer workloads
Handle complex, large-scale energy and grid data workloads without sacrificing speed or stability. dbt’s cloud-native architecture supports smart grid analytics, renewable integration, and enterprise growth, even as data volumes and regulatory demands increase.
dbt Cloud enables all of the above [SOX compliance requirements] by having a place where we can easily target code executions for only files edited. It keeps a history of the success or failure of jobs and more importantly, tests.
Jared Stout Head of Data Management
Unlocking new data use cases
dbt helps utilities, clean-energy, and energy producers turn meter, asset, production, and customer data into resilient products that drive reliability, efficiency, and growth.
Accelerating modernization
Standardize transformations across AMI, SCADA, IoT, and production systems to move from brittle reporting to a cloud-ready, analytics-first foundation, opening doors to use cases like predictive maintenance.
Customer, grid & protection 360
Combine meter, billing, service, network, and production data to optimize programs (demand response, EV, DER, exploration), reduce churn, and improve reliability.
Data products & self-service at scale
Package curated models for field ops, grid planning, production optimization, and customer teams—enabling rapid experimentation and faster rollout of rates, programs, and projects.
Drive sustainability and resilience with compliant, trusted data
dbt brings transparency and agility to energy and utilities data — supporting regulatory reporting, ESG goals, and reliable operations at scale.
SQL-based transformations deliver traceability, version control, and reproducibility, ensuring compliance with FERC, NERC, and ESG standards. Automated documentation and CI/CD processes help teams meet audit requirements without slowing operations.
Building resilient, compliant data for energy and utilities
Learn how industry leaders use dbt to unify operational data, meet regulatory standards, and power the innovation needed for a more reliable, sustainable grid.
Read Watercare's storyAll of the improvements driven by dbt Cloud are starting to add up, and the quality of our data has exponentially grown. We can put testing in place and enforce rules to ensure that data going to users is correct without having to spend time manually checking it.
Diego Morales, Analytics & Insights Practice Lead
Read Sunrun's storyWith data teams spanning several business functions, we didnt just need a way to standardize development. We needed a way for those processes to be easily understood by everyone—seasoned engineers, new analysts, the CFO... everyone.
Jared Stout, Head of Data Management
Leading energy and utility providers choose dbt for trusted data
From renewable pioneers to critical water services, organizations like Enpal, Sunrun, and Watercare rely on dbt to modernize infrastructure, meet compliance standards, and accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.
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