PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 2068496
PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 2068496
The Agentic Premium: How Domain-Level Transformation Delivers Compounding AI Returns in the Electricity Industry
This IDC Perspective reviews how utilities can achieve greater AI-driven returns by focusing on domain-level transformation rather than isolated use-case portfolios. The agentic premium stems from compounding gains across efficiency, productivity, and revenue and requires foundational investments in data integration, process redesign, and governance at the domain level to deliver enterprise-wide value."The practical question for utility leadership in 2026 is whether the AI investment portfolio is structured to capture compounding returns from domain-level transformation or remains a collection of isolated pilots that add up rather than multiply," said Roberta Bigliani, group vice president, IDC.
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Situation overview
- The use-case surplus problem
- From AI use case to agentic AI
- Where agentic value concentrates
- Why domain-level transformation outperforms use-case deployment
- From analysis to operations: What domain-level agentic AI looks like
- Revenue creation through autonomous market orchestration
- Efficiency compounding through closed-loop grid restoration
- Productivity gains through intelligent field operations
- The agentic premium: Compounding returns across the domain
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