DIGITALIZATION

Digitalization refers to Using digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue
and value-producing opportunities. Digital technologies reconfigure the whole business landscape,
transitioning from traditional analog to digital.

OBJECTIVE:
Azure Power is a leading independent power producer. The company has grown over the years through
development of large scale RE projects. Azure intends to play a further enhanced role as a provider of
clean energy solutions in this fast-changing Energy landscape. The integration and interplay of various
RE technologies such as energy storage, Green Hydrogen etc. is thus a key focus area.
In its next phase of growth, Azure is looking forward to equip itself with the right tools and technologies
to help it ride the growth curve in the Energy transition space.  This would need expansion of
capabilities, processes, tools and collaboration across the organization. The new business landscape
seeks future preparedness of processes and systems, enhanced and seamless collaboration, efficiency
and faster time to market while maintaining the best standards of quality and execution throughout the
various stages of project lifecycle. The larger goal for this digital transformation exercise should be:
 Increase efficiency – Upgrade the various manual tasks to digital and create a digitally enhanced
way of working. Automating various repetitive tasks end-to-end case and process solutions
 Increase collaboration – Introduce and upgrade tools across the various divisions and
departments for seamless collaboration, reduce turnaround time, facilitating shared working,
simplifying processes across cross departmental use cases, Projects, O&M, D&E, Construction,
Finance, legal, HR, IT, SCM etc.
 Increase competitiveness – Define right ‘digital’ peers in Renewable energy / utilities space and
create a digital support system behind our business to stay ahead of the competition while
preserving profitability
 Enhanced Data-driven decision making - leveraging data for insights, predictive outcomes, and
eventually business growth

Towards this the first steps are to undertake a ‘dipstick’ assessment of where we are, defining Where we
want to be and how do we reach there.
The dipstick assessment must focus on:
 What are the future requirements of the emerging RE landscape and what digital capabilities
would it require?
 Assess the current digital preparedness of the organization to be able to deliver on the future
roadmap
 Identify gaps with competition and global best practices across the various functions and
departments (Land, D&E, Construction, O&M, Finance, Legal, HR, SCM etc.)
 Define the ‘Digital to be state’ based on Azure’s strategy
 Define the Quick-wins, Short Term and Long-Term To-Dos
SCOPE:

SCOPE
Organization   Vision &Strategy
Readiness Culture & Readiness Assessment
Digital Skill Assessment
Training & Capacity Building
Network Planning,   Load Growth & Net. Expansion Planning
Asset Deployment Asset Survey and GIS
& Asset Substation, Distribution & Communication System
Management Modernization
Asset Maintenance Management
Vendor Management
Project Management
Revenue   Consumer Metering & Indexing
Management & DT/Feeder Metering
Energy Audit MDMS and Energy Audit
Operations Turbine temperature derating correction
Condition based cleaning of solar modules
PR deviation reduction
Real time measurement and improvement of turbine
Shadow detection and optimization
Yield
Yaw offset optimization
improvement
across Wake optimization
wind/solar Drone based thermographic fault identification
Diffused tracking
Inverter efficiency improvement
Scheduling and forecasting improvement
Grid Observability & Security Management
Power Quality Monitoring
Outage Management
Demand Response
Power Procurement
Trading Management
Curtailment management
Availability Thermographic hotspot detection of equipment
Improvement Condition based monitoring and management
across Predictive maintenance for components
wind/solar
String failure detection
Asset health assurance digitization
Spare parts tracking and optimization
 Operations and Maintenance task optimization through sensor-based,
maintenance integrated online condition monitoring
cost reduction Integrated day-to-day logistics and bundling – optimizing
and efficiency route, maintenance and personnel planning
improvement Automated GPS enhanced dispatching
Long-term resource forecasting
Engineering Design   Plant resource Assessment
PV Electrical Design & Civil Design
BOM Generation
AC Works, Substation, Grid Compliance
Contract   Contract and Order Management
Grid Connection Agreements
Risk Management
Project delivery Project planning Revised integrated and dynamic planning with digital tools
Project Digital Control Tower for end-to-end monitoring
monitoring Digital war-room setup for regulatory management
Site Coordination and Supervision
Construction Progress Monitoring
Construction Material receiving and Quality Checks
and Warehouse Management
commissioning
Material Installation Monitoring
Grid Interconnection Management
Equipment location and utilization tracking (e.g., cranes)
Labour productive utilization tracking (hrs/day of work
done)
Visual, real-time updates on volume of work completed
Safety tracking
Tender Process Management
Bidding Strategy
Business Prefeasibility Study
Development
Secure PPAs
Project Portfolio Management
Commercial Management
AA bidding models embedded with historical intelligence
on O&M, asset TCO, project delivery, performance value
Material Procurement
Procurement Logistics Follow Up
and supply chain E2E digitalization of procurement process (e.g., e-sourcing,
supplier evaluation)
Capex Commodity forecasting
Digital capex tracking
Customer   Consumer Connection Management
Customer Care Infrastructure
Consumer Engagement Program
Net Metering
Finance and risk   Project Budgeting
Project Cost Control/ Tracking
Working capital Cashflow monitoring across SPVs and upstreaming
management Streamlining debt disbursement and reducing over-
equitization
Automated receivables & payables management
Streaming govt grants process
Cash Flow monitoring and predicting at HoldCO level
Project Digitization of project and operational cost management
performance Cross charge optimization
management IRR comparison and tracking
Financial risk AA based hedging strategy
management
Accounting and KYC automation to prevent non-compliance and debit
financial freeze
planning Automated identification of transactions availing GST input
Automated transaction initiation (RPDC integration to SAP)
Others Land management: Digitization of land lease records, land
cost tracking, land acquisition, Lease Payments
Project cost management: real-time visibility and flags for
un/billed costs
Regulatory & Policy   Digital workflow for regulatory management and
prioritization of issues
Data Privacy and Cyber Security
Core IT   IT Infrastructure, IT Sourcing, IT Processes & IT Support
Data Strategy
Management Reporting & MIS
People/HR Talent Retention/ Absenteeism algorithms to predict individual
management “flight’ risk and indicative factors
Performance identifier analytics to identify traits, practices
and skills of best managers/leaders
Digital trainings management tool (identification and
management)
Recruitment Strategic workforce planning with AA and third-party data
analytics to predict supply and demand of capabilities
AI driven recruitment platform from identification to
onboarding
R&D Research Market scanning & Digital tracking/pilots of new
tracking technologies
 Big data AA embedded in new projects to reduce time to
analytics market/costs
Environment,   Data based automatic grading of each asset on ESG
social and parameters with auto-recommendations
governance
Others   Central data warehouse for operating as well as financial
data
Digital performance management (embedded
visualizations and analytics as required)
Central data warehouse for non-operational data. For e.g.:
HR records, Safety, water consumption etc.