Case Study: Simply Energy achieves faster analytics and lower data costs with Looker

Simply Energy Helping Kiwi businesses decarbonize with cloud data and AI solutions

Simply Energy, part of New Zealand-based Contact Energy, helps commercial and industrial customers reduce energy costs and emissions on the path to net zero. To support that mission, the company needed to rebuild and simplify its data and cloud environment after integrating with a different technology stack, while also improving reporting and analytics for customer advisory services. Looker was used for business intelligence and data visualization as part of the broader cloud modernization.

Looker, implemented within the Google Cloud architecture, helped Simply Energy combine data into meaningful visualizations and speed up reporting for ad hoc customer requests. The solution reduced report delivery time from about a month to two weeks, cut data storage costs by 50%, made scenario modeling 3x faster, reduced testing time for new products by 50%, and lowered coding time by 40%.

Simply Energy

Hema Pericherla

Chief Technology Officer