Powering Indonesia: Transforming PLN with Predictive Grid Intelligence

As the state-owned electricity company, PLN operates an immense and complex national power grid, serving millions of households and industries across Indonesia every day. Managing this critical infrastructure at such a vast scale requires more than just monitoring. It demands unified visibility, predictive intelligence

The Fragmentation of Grid Data

Operating Indonesia's national power grid means managing thousands of interconnected systems—from power plant performance and transmission line health to localized customer consumption patterns—without missing critical signals. The reality for PLN was characterized by siloed operational data trapped across various regi

The Unified Grid Intelligence Platform

PLN addressed this by adopting a comprehensive System Architecture leveraging the Cloudera Data Platform and the bliv suite (bliv Monitoring, bliv Warehouse, bliv Explore, bliv MLOps, bliv AI Studio) to centralize and process grid data. This platform’s foundation is the Talend ETL, which integrates data from diverse op

Proactive Grid Management & Service Assurance

This new architecture transformed PLN’s approach from reactive problem-solving (responding to outages) to proactive grid and service assurance

Reduce Outage Downtime

bliv Monitoring and bliv AI Studio detect anomalies in grid performance or equipment health before they escalate into outages, ensuring faster response times for maintenance and dramatically improving service reliability

Single Source of Truth

The bliv Datahouse provides consistent, validated data access for all operational teams, ending debates over data accuracy and improving cross-departmental coordination