Case Study: Uplight achieves faster analytics service launches with Databricks on Google Cloud

Clean energy leader delivers analytics solutions efficiently

Uplight, a clean energy leader and provider of a customer engagement and load-flexibility platform for energy providers, needed a more efficient way to turn data from 60 million endpoints into useful insights. Using Databricks on Google Cloud, Uplight aimed to speed up analytics and support faster launches of new services for utility customers.

Databricks helped Uplight ingest and analyze data from utility systems, weather stations, OEM partners, and other sources, while keeping integrations and security manageable at scale. As a result, Uplight now runs 30,000 Spark jobs per month, has cut development time in half for new services, and used its AI-driven programs to help California utilities avoid rolling power outages during a 2022 heat wave.

Uplight

Daniel Coll

Senior Data Engineer