Data integration and management company, Talend, has announced that they will partner with SGN – who provide gas to 5.9 million homes and businesses across Scotland (and in the south of England) – to drive its cross-organisational data initiatives.

The energy company will use Talend to drive a strong data culture throughout its business and power its data transformation and digitalisation plans to support the UK government’s Net Zero decarbonisation objective.

Running in an AWS environment, Talend will help SGN operationalise its data governance strategy, supporting regulatory requirements and greater access, understanding, and usage of its data across the organization.

In 2021, the UK government released its digitalisation strategy for the energy sector, highlighting the importance of data and technology to achieve decarbonisation and meet its Net Zero objective by 2050. To realise this goal, SGN selected Talend to control and govern data while enabling access and better usage of data by the business.

To address one of the regulatory requirements around data interoperability, SGN is seeking to build a system of trust by creating an enterprise view and catalogue of its data.

The use of Talend’s data governance solutions will support SGN in complying with new and evolving regulatory mandates for energy data, in particular with the digital transformation of the energy networks and the need for robust, credible and interoperable data to feed these solutions.

“Data will play a key role in the innovation that will drive the future of energy and the future of energy sources.

Recommended

• Research finds UK brands are underutilising their data
• Comment | Overcoming the barriers to automating your cybersecurity
• Investment in Scottish businesses jumped 36% last year

“We have a number of innovative projects to identify how we are going to use hydrogen on our networks, how we prioritize our network upgrades so that it supports the Net Zero hydrogen targets, and how we optimize our program, so it is the most efficient for the future of gas and gas networks,” explains Shuchi Nagar, Head of Architecture and Data at SGN.

The broader digitalisation programme also includes developing greater data literacy across SGN, with an aim of driving a common understanding of data.

Gabrielle Barnard, Head of Information Management at SGN, added: “One of the benefits that the Talend platform provides us with is the opportunity to change the perception of data as a conceptual asset that people can’t see or touch necessarily, particularly when we are talking in the context of governing and managing our data to deliver value.”

Get the latest news from DIGIT direct to your inbox

Our newsletter covers the latest technology and IT news from Scotland and beyond, as well as in-depth features and exclusive interviews with leading figures and rising stars.

To subscribe, click here.