TEPCO Solution Advance Co., Ltd. and Accenture announced a strategic collaboration to reinvent its operating model by embedding AI and the latest digital technologies into the core of its business. Over the next five years, both companies will work closely?spanning reinvention strategy to deployment and long-term adoption?to transform TEPCO Solution Advance from traditional, labor-intensive work to AI-driven business services, endorsing the company?s TSA2040 Vision to create new value by equipping its people with digital capabilities to better serve customers. With Accenture?s collaboration, TEPCO Solution Advance aims to establish a resilient business foundation capable of optimizing its cost structure and creating value autonomously through greater transparency, productivity and continuous improvement.

Over a five-year period, the collaboration with Accenture aims to generate cumulative value exceeding JPY 10 billion. The initiative is structured around three core pillars: Co-creation and implementation of an AI-ready digital foundation ? The two companies will design, implement, and operate the applications, architectures, and infrastructure required to enable AI at scale.

This includes close coordination with group IT organizations to define enterprise-wide requirements and track progress. Operational transparency and productivity reinvention ?The partnership will focus on making operations visible end-to-end, identifying efficiency levers, designing future-state processes, and executing transformation roadmaps. Governance and execution enablement ?The companies will establish a robust governance and change management program, continuously monitoring progress and outcomes through steering committees and governance forums to maintain momentum, build skills and drive measurable results.

The company will ultimately extend its AI-driven services beyond the power sector to other infrastructure industries facing labor shortages, contributing to broader, long-term value creation across society.