Improving Mechanisms to Ensure Financial Sustainability of Energy Companies in the Context of Digital Transformation

Financial sustainability in energy companies increasingly depends on the ability to keep tariffs affordable while maintaining reliability, funding asset renewal, and responding to energy-transition pressures. Digital transformation has moved from “nice-to-have IT” to a core financial lever because it can reshape operating cost structures, reduce technical and commercial losses, strengthen cash collection, and improve capital allocation discipline through data-driven planning. International analytical work also stresses that digitalisation brings material risks—especially cyber and data governance—which must be managed as part of the business model, not treated as a side issue. In parallel, investors and lenders are demanding decision-useful disclosure of sustainability-related risks and opportunities that can affect cash flows, access to finance, and the cost of capital, which increases the value of trustworthy digital measurement, control systems, and reporting pipelines.