Grid <5582> actively hires engineers from the heavy electric and social infrastructure industries with deep understanding of field operations, and provides them with data science education after they join the company, thus enabling them to become AI professionals with a combination of business knowledge of social infrastructure. As a result, the company is able to offer practical and effective algorithms for plan optimization. Specifically, engineers from social infrastructure industry will combine AI technologies tailored to customer's business challenges and conduct plan optimization that presents clear economic benefits such as fossil fuel and cost reduction.

For power companies, major electronics manufacturers provide plan optimization algorithms, etc., which become a competition. Previous plan optimization was guided by mathematical optimization techniques, but the company has used AI in addition to this technology, enabling it to solve more difficult tasks in a practical timeframe.

Efficiency of energy consumption has become an important issue for society as a whole, and the business environment of the company, which develops plan optimization algorithms for the power and energy fields, is favorable. For the fiscal year ending June 24, the company plans to achieve revenue of 1,753 million yen, a 29.5% increase from the previous period, and operating profit of 342 million yen, a 64.3% increase from the previous period.