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Aspiravi
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Aspiravi is a Belgian renewable energy producer, owned by 88 municipalities and more than 13,000 citizen cooperators. Together with ML6, Aspiravi ran a five-week AI advisory track that turned scattered ideas into an AI strategy and roadmap its ExCo has endorsed. The ExCo now has a mandate on where and how to start.

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Every department had ideas, the AI Lab was experimenting, and every software vendor was pitching AI features. Aspiravi needed to know where to start. In five weeks, leadership interviews, five departmental deep-dives and one ideation workshop produced a scored longlist of use cases, a set of strategic bets, quick-win MVPs prototyped, and a proposed AI Transformation Office to govern the rollout.. The ExCo endorsed the roadmap and selected the first strategic bet, now scoped into a phased value and investment case, for implementation.

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About Aspiravi

Aspiravi is a Belgian renewable energy producer headquartered in Kortrijk. It's owned by 88 municipal shareholders and more than 13,000 citizen cooperators, and it operates around 1,800 MW of onshore and offshore wind, biomass, and storage across Belgium, France, Spain, Scotland, and Curaçao.


Aspiravi covers the whole value chain in-house, from site identification and permitting through construction and O&M to energy sales and portfolio management. With Aspiravi Energy Control, it's now expanding into direct B2B energy supply. In a market that's getting more competitive and more complex, Aspiravi needed to know where AI creates the most value and what leadership should commit to first.

Impact

5

weeks from an open question to an ExCo-endorsed roadmap, delivered on plan.

5

departmental deep-dives: plus leadership interviews and 1 ideation workshop, covering the whole organization.

10+ use cases scored on value and effort, turning scattered department ideas into one ranked list of quick wins and strategic bets.

Challenge

Aspiravi was convinced of AI's potential. The hard part was knowing where to start.

  • Ideas everywhere, no shared priorities

    An internal AI Lab was experimenting and ideas surfaced in every department, but there was no shared view of which opportunities mattered most.

  • Vendor noise

    Every new software vendor was pitching AI features, which made it harder to tell which ones would add value.

  • Unclear readiness

    There were no guardrails or governance to roll AI out across the organization, and no clear picture of how ready its people and data were.

  • Decisions on experience and scattered data

    Many key decisions still relied on experience and on data spread across systems that didn't tell one consistent story.

  • A changing market

    The energy market is becoming more competitive and more volatile, and Aspiravi’s own business is evolving with it. Leadership needed to know where AI would matter most in this shift.

Solution

ML6 ran a five-week AI advisory track in five work packages.

Agreed scope, stakeholders and success criteria with Aspiravi's project owner, so every later step answered the same question.

 

Results

  • One shared picture

    leadership and every department share one view of where AI creates value and how ready the organization is.

  • A clear path to adopt AI

    three routes and a proposed governance setup, instead of scattered experiments.

  • From roadmap to build

    ML6 and Aspiravi are partnering on the first strategic bet, aimed at Aspiravi’s evolving market position, turning the investment case into a phased build.

The Collaboration

The track was co-created with Aspiravi. Our team brought applied AI expertise and hands-on energy-sector knowledge, so each use case was weighed on what AI can do and how it fits its business. Aspiravi was involved at every step: leadership set the strategic direction, and each department brought its own ideas and helped score them. The result is a roadmap Aspiravi recognizes as its own, and a partnership that continues as both join forces on the first strategic bet.

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