Energy & Utilities.
Meter to bill, without the estimate.
Drema builds software for energy and utility operations: meter data ingestion and validation, billing, outage handling, renewable asset monitoring and customer portals. Meter data is high-volume, frequently late and sometimes wrong, and everything downstream depends on handling that well.
What this sector
actually deals with.
Meter reads arrive late, duplicated or missing, so bills are estimated and then disputed. Outages are discovered through customer calls. Renewable assets underperform for weeks before anyone notices, because nobody is comparing output to expectation.
Systems this sector
keeps needing.
The parts of a energy & utilities platform that carry the weight. Not everything at once — we build the one that unblocks you first.
Meter data pipelines
Ingestion with validation, estimation and clear flagging of what was estimated.
Billing engines
Tariffs, slabs, subsidies and adjustments calculated transparently.
Outage management
Detection, grouping, crew dispatch and restoration tracking.
Asset monitoring
Solar and wind output measured against expected yield to surface underperformance.
Customer self-service
Usage, bills, payments and complaint tracking online.
Where the work
pays for itself.
The problems energy & utilities teams bring us most often. If one of these is costing you money today, it is worth a conversation.
Billing accuracy
Reducing estimated bills and the disputes that follow them.
Proactive outage response
Detecting loss of supply before the phones start ringing.
Renewable performance
Catching soiling, shading and inverter faults within days, not months.
Demand analytics
Load profiling for planning and tariff design.
Not on this list? Sector problems rarely fit a template — tell us yours.
What shapes a build
in this sector.
These are the things a generalist team discovers late and prices badly. We design around them from the first week.
- Regulatory tariff structures and subsidy rules
- Very high meter data volume with late and revised reads
- Critical infrastructure security expectations
- Long asset lifecycles and legacy protocol support
How we usually
engage here.
The services energy & utilities clients most often start with.
Energy & Utilities
questions.
Straight answers, including where we are not the right team.
Can you handle smart meter data volume?
Yes, with time-series storage, aggregation strategy and retention tiers designed around how the data is actually queried. Interval data at full resolution forever is rarely necessary and always expensive.
How do you deal with missing meter reads?
Documented estimation rules, clear flagging of estimated versus actual on the bill, and automatic correction when the real read arrives. Silent estimation is what turns a data problem into a customer trust problem.
Can you monitor solar assets?
Yes. Inverter and sensor data compared against expected yield for the location and conditions, so underperformance is detected as a deviation rather than noticed at the monthly report.
How do you handle security for critical infrastructure?
Network segregation, least-privilege access, encryption and full audit logging, working to your security team's framework. Anything touching operational technology is read-only unless there is a compelling, controlled reason otherwise.
Building for energy & utilities?
Bring the problem as it actually is, constraints included.
You will get a straight answer on whether we are the right team.