A data strategy to enable reliable energy supply for everyone

TenneT owns and operates 25,000 kilometers of high-voltage cables in the Netherlands and northern Germany. Every day, TenneT transmits electricity to 43 million people in The Netherlands and a large part of Germany. Safely and reliably, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.

Help us to create a Data Strategy that results in a common view on and approach to accelerating the energy transition with smart data-driven solutions. The Data Strategy needs to:

• Provide a more long-term perspective on how the business can optimally use data in the future for innovative solutions
• Be understood and supported by the key executives, business and technology organization stakeholders
• Be actionable and with that initiate actual change

Anderson MacGyver engaged with key TenneT stakeholders and went through the following process:

• Creating a common understanding of the value of data for TenneT
• Defining and prioritizing concrete opportunities to harvest more value of data
• Assessing current issues and opportunities around the pursuit of these opportunities
• Establishing key themes and principles based on the above analysis; themes included topics such as cloud data platform, data talent development, federative data operating model, strengthening of data management, self-service, data literacy and genAI enablement & governance
• Defining goals, key decisions & principles per theme
• Based on this, creating a complete and congruent execution roadmap covering all themes
• Creating the Data Strategy Execution program plan and initiating the execution
• Supporting the respective theme leads in their execution of the roadmap

TenneT Digital & Data team achieved a common and approved strategy for accelerating the energy transition with smart data-driven solutions. TenneT-wide budget and resourcing are allocated and multiple initiatives are delivering impact. Examples of these initiatives are:

Controlled acceleration of genAI use cases supported by the newly formed genAI Center of Competence

• Migration to a modern cloud data platform
• Simplification of landscape through the migration of optimization of information products
• Delivery of more and better data at the users’ fingertips through accelerated provisioning of certified self-service data products
• Design of and data quality use-case driven implementation of a federated data governance operating model; with clearer ownership and enhanced cross-unit collaboration

“Anderson MacGyver is hands-on way and goes beyond PowerPoint. It is about understanding and adapting to what needs to be done to achieve actual change. This is crucial for TenneT. “

– John Simmons, Head of Digital & Data at TenneT