Energy companies do not lack data. They lack a place where the data agrees with itself. Production numbers sit in SCADA and historians, money sits in an ERP, assets sit in GIS, and the monthly report is stitched together in a spreadsheet by someone who knows which column to distrust.

The money moving through the sector makes this more urgent. The IEA’s World Energy Investment 2026 puts global energy spending at about $3.4 trillion, with grids approaching $550 billion and battery storage above $100 billion. Capital is arriving faster than the systems that track, operate and report on it.

Energy is not one market, though. Each segment has its own workflows, regulators and failure modes, so the software that fits one rarely fits the next. Here is how we see the six areas on our Energy and Renewables section, and where a custom build tends to beat an off-the-shelf tool.

Oil and gas: close the books and see the field

Operators carry two parallel problems. The financial side is joint interest billing, AFE tracking and partner reporting, where packaged ERP modules often fit badly. The operational side is production allocation from meter and SCADA data, plus regulatory filings that someone still assembles by hand.

The common thread is reconciliation: field numbers have to match accounting numbers without a week of manual work. Our oil and gas software page covers how we approach JIB, allocation and reporting automation, and why we start with one data path before touching the rest.

Power and grid: modernise without switching anything off

Utilities cannot pause operations to replatform. The practical route is a layer beside the old systems: outage and work management, meter data platforms, load forecasting and customer portals, fed from SCADA and GIS rather than replacing them.

The stakes are structural. The IEA has found that annual grid investment stayed near $300 billion a year for most of a decade and needs to roughly double by 2030, with about 1,500 GW of renewable projects waiting for a connection. It also estimates that digital tools could save $1.8 trillion of grid investment through 2050. Our power and grid software page sets out where we fit into that work, including legacy system modernization for the platforms utilities cannot yet retire.

Renewable energy: one view across many sites

A developer or operator with a mixed portfolio faces a different problem: every technology reports differently. Pipeline and permitting live in one tool, generation in another, and lenders and investors want a consistent performance report from both.

The valuable build here is the portfolio layer: a normalised model of sites, assets and production that feeds monitoring, O&M scheduling and reporting. The renewable energy software page explains the approach. The three technology pages below sit under it.

Solar: from quote to underperformance alerts

Solar work spans the whole lifecycle: proposals and design handoffs, installer scheduling, and then years of inverter and meter data. The software gap is usually after the install, where small production losses go unnoticed because nobody compares an array to its own expected output.

Monitoring, soiling and underperformance analytics, plus a field app for the crews who fix what the data flags, close that gap. We lay out the build on our solar software page, and IoT development is the foundation for getting device data in reliably.

Wind: turn turbine data into maintenance decisions

A turbine produces constant condition data, and most of it is read only after something fails. The valuable software sits between the sensors and the maintenance plan: anomaly detection, predictive analytics, availability and curtailment reporting, and fleet dashboards an asset manager can trust.

Our wind software page describes how we approach each of those, and where forecast and resource data fit in.

Storage and more: software is the product

Batteries, EV charging, distributed resources and virtual power plants are different because the software is a large part of the value. Dispatch logic, state-of-charge monitoring, market integrations and settlement all have to run in near real time, and a weak integration shows up directly as lost revenue.

Investment here is growing quickly, which means products are being built from scratch. Our energy storage software page covers dispatch, DER platforms, charging networks and the settlement integrations behind them.

A simple way to choose your starting point

Across all six areas, the projects that ship share a pattern. Pick one asset class or one reporting pain, connect the two or three systems that feed it, and prove the result before widening scope. A narrow first release gives you an integration, a data model and an audit trail you can reuse, which is most of the cost of the second release.

If you want to talk through where your own systems sit, start with the Energy and Renewables overview or contact our team and tell us which of these six sounds most like your week.