A power utility builds financial scenarios in hours, not weeks
Google says Santee Cooper's planning agent should build scenarios in hours or days that used to take a small team weeks or months, feeding a $10 billion grid-expansion budget. Another use is grid load forecasting. A scenario-time cut of up to 75% appears in Google's summary. Vendor-published.
- Agent or tool
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- Topic
- Finance
- Reported on
- Press release (Google Cloud)
- Added
- 2026-10-29
Why it matters
Money tasks are tedious but high-stakes, which is exactly where a careful agent helps: it does the checking and paperwork while a person keeps the final say. It is one of 74 sightings filed under Finance on Agent Sightings (number 68 by interest), and one of 1 involving Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Take this spreadsheet model, run these three what-if scenarios, and give me the results side by side with every assumption listed.
Tip: Keep the agent in 'propose, don't pay' mode: let it gather numbers and draft messages, and approve any payment or account change yourself.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Press release (Google Cloud): https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2026-09-03-Santee-Cooper-Partners-with-G…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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