CARTO & Snowflake: Location Intelligence for Energy and Utilities
Summary: CARTO and Snowflake are enabling energy organizations to bring spatial intelligence and AI directly into the data cloud, unifying IoT and business data to drive more efficient, resilient, and sustainable operations within one governed environment.
CARTO was highlighted in the launch of Snowflake Energy Solutions as a key partner supporting energy organizations in the use of spatial data and AI to streamline operations. Together, CARTO, Snowflake, and a growing ecosystem of industry leaders are empowering oil and gas, power, and utilities providers to modernize infrastructure, improve efficiency, and accelerate progress toward a more reliable and lower-carbon energy future.
Energy companies are operating in an increasingly complex environment.
They face mounting pressure to secure critical infrastructure, improve operational resilience, and navigate volatile markets, all while integrating new data sources and meeting ambitious sustainability goals. To succeed, organizations need real-time insight across their assets, networks, and operations, grounded in trusted data and enriched with spatial context.
Through our collaboration, CARTO brings cloud-native spatial analytics directly into Snowflake. Energy teams can analyze location-based data at scale without moving or duplicating it, while inheriting Snowflake’s governance, security, and performance.
From advanced geospatial workflows with Snowflake ML and interactive maps to AI Agents powered by Snowflake Cortex AI, everything runs where your data already lives. No extra pipelines. No unnecessary complexity.
By combining CARTO’s spatial intelligence with Snowflake’s Energy Solutions, organizations can connect critical IoT data, activate AI-powered insights, and operate more safely and efficiently.
Adding spatial context helps teams better understand performance, assess risk, plan expansion, manage territories, and optimize daily operations, turning raw data into actionable Location Intelligence.
As energy systems become more digital and interconnected, legacy on-premise tools simply don’t scale. Spatial analytics play a critical role in understanding where assets are, how they interact with their environment, and where risks or opportunities exist across the network.
When Location Intelligence is embedded directly in the data cloud, teams can move faster, collaborate more easily, and make better-informed decisions.
Imagine visualizing the global supply chain across billions of marine vessel signals to answer questions around logistics, risk exposure, regulatory compliance, and environmental impact; all from a single, governed platform.
Snowflake Energy Solutions provide the foundation energy companies need to unify traditionally siloed IoT data, securely collaborate with partners, and unlock AI-driven capabilities. CARTO builds on that foundation by enabling spatial analysis and visualization natively in Snowflake; helping teams understand not just what is happening, but where and why.
“Energy companies aren’t just modernizing systems — they’re redefining how the world energizes the future,” said Fred Cohagan, Industry Principal, Energy at Snowflake. “Snowflake and partners like CARTO are helping organizations build the trusted data foundation this moment requires.”
Together, we're solving critical Energy & Utility use cases including:
- EV charger site selection
- Propensity analysis
- Network planning
- Water management
Together, Snowflake and CARTO help Energy & Utility organizations:
- Unify IoT data for end-to-end visibility across exploration, production, transmission and distribution, asset performance, and customer operations.
- Improve asset health with AI-driven monitoring and optimized operations.
- Enhance safety, efficiency, and emissions reduction by combining real-time field data with business and demographic data.
- Modernize infrastructure with built-in security, governance, and compliance.
- Collaborate securely across the energy value chain using both CARTO’s and Snowflake’s data sharing and marketplace capabilities.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) powers up with modernized geospatial for renewable energy solutions for two geospatial use cases:
- Network Analysis for Emergency Situations
- Renewable Energy Potential Modeling
Explore how NREL is modernizing their geospatial stack with CARTO in this customer case study and visit NREL’s Open Energy Data Initiative Siting Lab.
By bringing spatial analytics and AI together in the data cloud, CARTO and Snowflake are helping energy organizations build operations that are more resilient, more efficient, and more sustainable.
This collaboration reflects CARTO’s continued commitment to delivering spatial intelligence wherever data lives and supporting the energy industry as it powers the future.
Want to learn more? Reach out to our team to explore what spatial intelligence can unlock for your energy workflows.
