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Data for a grid that runs both ways
Metering, grid data and customer platforms for energy and water utilities, built for a network where homes now send power back as well as draw it.
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What is changing
A utility used to read a meter once a quarter and send a bill. Now it receives readings every half hour from millions of devices, balances power flowing in both directions and serves customers who generate their own. Most of the systems underneath were designed for the old rhythm.
Smart meters, heat pumps, home batteries and electric vehicles have multiplied the data a utility handles, and the decisions it has to make with that data.
Regulators and customers expect clearer bills, faster connections and honest reporting on the transition. All of it depends on systems that can change without any risk to supply.
Three shifts reshaping utilities
Readings by the half hour
Interval data from smart meters has grown volumes a hundredfold. Billing, settlement and forecasting all have to keep pace with it.
Customers who produce
Solar panels and batteries turn customers into suppliers. Tariffs, contracts and bills have to handle exports as easily as imports.
Connections at scale
Requests to connect new generation and charging points far exceed what manual planning can process. Grid data has to be trusted enough to automate the first answer.
By the numbers
Utilities, measured
- 2 million
- Smart meters read every half hour on the platform we built with Varda Energy.
- 64%
- Share of technology budget the utility leaders in our research spend keeping existing systems running.
- 30 min
- Interval at which meter data now reaches billing and forecasting for our utility clients, down from once a quarter.
- 0
- Supply interruptions caused by our migrations, across eleven utility programs.
Varda Energy; The maintenance dividend, KIASA research, 2026 (12 of the 140 engineering leaders surveyed work in utilities); KIASA delivery records, 2020 to 2026.
What we do
How we help energy and water utilities
We work on the systems between the meter and the bill, and between the grid and the planner, and we change them without touching supply.
Meter data platforms
Platforms that take in, validate and store interval readings from millions of meters, and hand them on to every system that needs them.
Cloud and platform engineeringBilling and customer platforms
Billing that handles time-of-use tariffs, exports and prepayment, and customer accounts people can understand.
Enterprise platformsGrid and asset data
A trusted model of the network, joined to the condition of every asset, so planners can see load and risk on one map.
Artificial intelligence and dataConnections and flexibility
Self-service connection requests and flexibility services that give installers and customers an answer in days rather than months.
Digital product engineeringOperational technology security
Control systems and substations protected as carefully as the office network, and tested the way an attacker would approach them.
CybersecurityCarbon reporting
Emissions data handled with the same rigor as financial data, and the energy cost of your own software measured too.
Green software
Metering
Leaving the mainframe without dropping a reading
Varda Energy's meter data ran on a mainframe that had served it for decades. Every half-hourly reading from two million meters had to keep arriving, and every bill had to stay right, while it moved.
We built the new platform beside the old one and fed both the same readings for months. Each night the two were compared. When they had agreed for long enough, the old one was switched off. Customers noticed nothing.
Read the Varda Energy story
Grid data
Grid data that planners trust
A connection request is only as fast as the network model behind it. In most utilities that model lives in several places, and none of them agree on what is in the ground.
We reconcile the network records with meter and sensor data, flag where they disagree and give planners one model they can rely on. Simple connection requests can then be answered automatically, and engineers spend their time on the hard ones.
See artificial intelligence and dataOur work in action
What we have built with utilities
Case study
Varda Energy reads two million meters without a mainframe
A metering platform moved off a mainframe with no missed readings and no billing errors.
Read the case study
Grown with KIASA, episode 3
Varda Energy: the quiet migration
The team that runs Varda's meter platform tells the story of the move in their own words.
Watch the film
Tallis Water
A water company finds leaks from the night flow
District meters and pressure data compared each night point crews to the streets most likely to be losing water.
Explore
Kestrin Grid Services
Connection offers in eight days instead of ninety
A self-service connection portal backed by a reconciled network model answers most small requests on its own.
Explore
What we think
Reading for utility leaders
Perspective
Green software is mostly just good software
A utility that reports the carbon of its network can report the carbon of its software too. The methods are simpler than they look.
Research report
The maintenance dividend
Utility leaders in our research spend nearly two thirds of their budget on systems that already exist. Where the rest should go.
Research report
Security debt: the quiet risk on the balance sheet
Control systems that cannot be patched in the usual way still carry risk that compounds. How to measure it.
Research report
Platform pulse: what engineering leaders will fund in 2027
Where technology leaders plan to spend in 2027, and what they are cutting to pay for it.
Our leaders
Energy and utilities leads
Engineers who have worked in control rooms and billing teams, and know what a missed reading costs.
Lars Eriksen
Industry Lead, Energy and Utilities
Has spent eighteen years on metering and settlement systems. Led the Varda Energy program from its first workshop.
Ngozi Adeyemi
Grid Data Lead
Builds network models planners can trust, and the automation that answers connection requests from them.
Carmen Ruiz
Customer Platforms Lead
Works on billing and customer accounts for tariffs that change by the half hour.
Keep the lights on while the grid changes
Tell us what you need to move, and by when. A partner from our utilities team will reply within two working days.