TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 3, 2026--
TEPCO Solution Advance Co., Ltd., the subsidiary of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Group responsible for providing operational services across the group, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced a strategic collaboration to reinvent its operating model by embedding AI and the latest digital technologies into the core of its business.
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Over the next five years, both companies will work closely—spanning reinvention strategy to deployment and long‑term adoption—to transform TEPCO Solution Advance from traditional, labor‑intensive work to AI-driven business services, endorsing the company’s TSA2040 Vision to create new value by equipping its people with digital capabilities to better serve customers.
With Accenture’s collaboration, TEPCO Solution Advance aims to establish a resilient business foundation capable of optimizing its cost structure and creating value autonomously through greater transparency, productivity and continuous improvement. Over a five‑year period, the collaboration with Accenture aims to generate cumulative value exceeding JPY 10 billion.
The initiative is structured around three core pillars:
Akira Tanahashi, President and Representative Director, TEPCO Solution Advance said, “Evolving to an AI‑ and digital‑enabled operating model is a critical management imperative, for driving productivity and creating value in a rapidly changing business environment. This partnership is not about efficiency alone—it is about reinventing our business model to continuously create higher value. By combining Accenture’s strengths in operational reinvention and AI with our frontline expertise, we aim to evolve into an AI‑driven enterprise capable of sustainable, autonomous growth, advancing our TSA2040 Vision.”
Takaaki Haraguchi, Senior Managing Director, Chief Commercial Officer, Japan, Accenture, said, “In today’s era of constant disruption, sustained growth depends on an organization’s ability to continuously reinvent itself—with speed and disciplined execution. Accenture helps clients turn AI and digital innovation into real operational reinvention that delivers measurable outcomes. Through this partnership, we will bring our experience, assets, and execution capabilities so that TEPCO Solution Advance build a foundation for autonomous, AI‑led operations, driving lasting value and long‑term growth.”
The company will ultimately extend its AI‑driven services beyond the power sector to other infrastructure industries facing labor shortages, contributing to broader, long‑term value creation across society.
About TEPCO Solution Advance
TEPCO Solution Advance is a member of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Group, providing operational services primarily in the electricity and gas sectors. The company delivers a wide range of services, including BPO services such as customer contract administration and billing operations, as well as field services, supporting improved operational efficiency and customer experience across the group. With approximately 2,400 employees, the company established its TSA2040 Vision in 2025 to drive sustainable growth and enterprise reinvention through strategies spanning business, talent, marketing, and IT, while advancing digital‑enabled operations and fostering an autonomous, resilient organization.
For more information, visit www.tepco-sa.co.jp.
About Accenture
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.
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(From left) Akira Tanahashi (President and Representative Director) and Tsuyoshi Numajiri (Director and Managing Executive Officer) from TEPCO Solution Advance, and Takaaki Haraguchi (Senior Managing Director, Chief Commercial Officer, Japan) and Ryo Fujino (Managing Director) from Accenture
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Steve Hilton has painted California as a state bursting with potential that has lost its way under Democratic leadership in his bid to be the state's first Republican governor in more than 15 years.
“We have a responsibility to revive California so it is once again that symbol of everything that is great about our nation: energy and optimism and ambition,” he said Tuesday in an election night speech in Southern California.
On Wednesday, he remained optimistic he would have the chance to take that message to the general election as vote counting continued. California puts all candidates on the same ballot regardless of party and two advance to the November election.
The Associated Press had not called the primary for any candidate as of Wednesday evening. Hilton held a 2 percentage-point lead over Democrat Xavier Becerra and nearly an 8-point lead over Democrat Tom Steyer as of Wednesday evening, though both Democrats gained a few thousand votes on Hilton after more than a dozen counties released additional results.
Counties are expected to continue to release results over the next several weeks. The state has a history of substantial vote updates after Election Day that can sometimes shift the outcome of elections as late-arriving mail and drop-off votes are counted.
Hilton, who has never held elected office, has promised to be a disruptor to the state's political order, which he said has failed Californians struggling to afford life in the notoriously expensive state. He is a relative newcomer not just to the state’s political scene, but to California itself. He migrated to the state in 2012 from the United Kingdom, where he was an adviser to Conservative Party officials including former Prime Minister David Cameron. He had a show on Fox News from 2017 to 2023 and became a U.S. citizen in 2021.
If he advances to November, Hilton faces an uphill battle in a state that hasn’t had a Republican governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger left office in 2011, and where Democrats make up 45% of registered voters compared to Republicans’ 25%. He said he is confident he can beat those odds.
“When people say, ‘How are you going to win in California as a Republican?’ My question is, how will a Democrat win based on the record that they are putting before the people?” he told reporters outside the state Capitol on Wednesday.
He is pledging to lower prices on everything from gas to housing, reduce income taxes, create a loan program for first-time homebuyers, and freeze in-state tuition at public colleges.
He faces another obstacle to winning over voters who don't typically vote Republican: President Donald Trump's endorsement.
“I know Steve — He is a hard driving WINNER, and he will turn California around, quickly — and the Federal Government will be there, with him, to help!” Trump said in a social media post.
Hilton thanked Trump for his words, saying Wednesday on X that “change is coming.”
While that endorsement likely helped him consolidate support among Republicans in the primary, it could be a liability in November given the president's deep unpopularity in a state that he has routinely made a punching bag. On debate stages and in speeches throughout the primary, Hilton hasn't emphasized Trump's support since he won it in April. But he said he looks forward to having a friendly partner in Washington should he win.
“It's about, what does that endorsement mean for the practical things we can get?" Hilton said Wednesday, adding that he would work with the federal government to try to lower gas prices and cut wasteful spending in government so the state can reduce taxes.
The candidate's promise to return the state to an unspecified golden age when most people were better off is not dissimilar to Trump's ubiquitous pledge to “Make America Great Again.”
In the primary, Hilton fought for Republican votes against GOP hopeful Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff.
In the race's final days, Hilton warned of the possibility that Becerra and Steyer could advance to the general election, shutting out Republicans. Becerra throughout his campaign touted his decades of political experience as proof he could lead, while Steyer leaned on his history of progressive advocacy to demonstrate how he would deliver for families trying to make ends meet.
But neither candidate would disrupt the status quo after years of Democratic rule, Hilton said.
“The progressive experiment in governance — we can see the results. It’s a disappointment all around,” he said. “I don’t know how much longer we have to wait for this experiment to actually work.”
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer speaks during an election night event Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra motions during an election night event Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton speaks during an election night event Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Huntington Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton speaks during an election night event Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Huntington Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton speaks to reporters outside the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
