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BLP joins hand with IBM

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Bharat Light and Power (BLP) has signed a 10-year strategic deal with IBM to drive business growth, enhance revenue, and increase operational efficiency.

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In this 10-year collaboration, BLP will use IBM's SoftLayer cloud capabilities, built on open standards, as well as IBM analytics and mobile solutions to increase its power generation capacity.

"IBM will work with BLP to help the company manage, and effectively use the vast amount of data generated by the power generation sources. With efficient and predictive analysis of data, energy producers can better manage their resources, take necessary precautionary measures, and improve overall productivity. IBM will deploy its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as a service to centrally monitor and manage BLP's existing and future generation plants as well as store and manage the data on cloud," the company said in its statement.

"IBM and BLP's big data analytics capabilities will help gather valuable insights from the data generated, which will ensure that BLP has an integrated view of its operations and is equipped to take pro-active measures. Using IBM's mobile technology the company will be able to provide all the information, analyzed on the cloud platform, to its ground staff on their handsets and alert them well in advance. This will enable BLP to build smarter operations with higher efficiency and greater utilization," it said.

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"The Indian power sector has doubled its capacity in the last 10 years and is projected to add another 100GW in next five years. With the issues facing fossil-based fuels, a good share of this growth will come from renewable energy sources. The scope of investments for renewables is estimated to be $10-12 bn in the next five years making it ripe for global investments in India," said Tejpreet S Chopra, President and CEO of BLP.

"The focus of power generation globally, and especially in India, in the next five years is going to be about operational efficiency and productivity enhancements. This requires an intelligent and innovative collaboration between the power and the IT sector. BLP has ambitious growth plans for providing this service and we needed a strategic partner who understands, and helps us realize, our vision," said Balki G Iyer, Chief Development Officer, BLP.

The solution is expected to significantly improve BLP's Plant Load Factor (PLF), which is essentially the generation efficiency of the installed capacity. IBM will also bring its subject matter experts to help BLP take effective business decisions and make efficient planning, based on the data analysis.

"As a strategic partner, we will deliver measurable business outcomes to BLP by bringing together expertise and capabilities across IBM," said Ajoy Menon, director of strategic outsourcing, Global Technology Services, IBM India South Asia.

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