PU&Rpose is a unified enterprise framework that combines Oracle technology with Deloitte’s proven industry processes, tools and services. The result is an integrated, tailored, cloud-based solution that drives efficiency across business and operations and enables continuous innovation.
As power, utilities and renewables organizations face energy transitions, rising costs, workforce shortages, and aging infrastructure, Deloitte helps address these challenges while integrating the enterprise, improving efficiency, and enabling innovations such as machine learning (ML), Generative AI (GenAI), and agentic AI.
Deloitte’s PU&Rpose solution is built upon leading Oracle applications and brings together siloed systems to accelerate digital transformation using an integrated cloud-based framework. This equips utilities to:
Utility organizations are facing the most dynamic energy environment experienced in decades. Modernizing applications and business processes is critical to converting the challenges of rapidly evolving energy needs and changing business models into opportunities.
Don Chapman, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
PU&Rpose enables utilities providers to apply leading practices, technologies and experience-driven processes to address today’s PU&R challenges, including:
Annual spend forecast for ~70,000 water utilities by 2030.1
Capital investment in line transformers up 23% due to supply issues.2
Wholesale electricity prices to rise 19% from 2025-2028.3
Capital projects can run +20% over budget due to labor costs.4
ENDNOTES:
1 “US$1.8 trillion water, wastewater utility CAPEX and OPEX forecast hinges on inflation, recessionary concerns in U.S. and Canada,” Bluefield Research, 2022.
2 “Grid infrastructure investments drive increase in utility spending over last two decades” U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2024.
3 Shankar Chandramowli, Patty Cook, Justin Mackovyak, Himali Parmar, and Maria Scheller, “Power surge: Navigating US electricity demand growth,” ICF, August 2024.
4 “Keeping Pace: Utility Construction Mid-Year Outlook” The Utility Expo, 2022.