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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Peggy employee help-desk chatbot

PG&E's Peggy chatbot fulfilled 25% to 40% of employee help-desk demand

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Problem

Repetitive employee requests burdened PG&E's help desk and increased waiting times.

Approach

PG&E built Peggy with Power Virtual Agents, renamed Microsoft Copilot Studio. The chatbot answered questions, directed employees to resources and automated SAP account unlocking.

Results

25% to 40%share of help-desk demand fulfilled by Peggy, per MicrosoftVendor case study[1]
840 hoursannual help-desk time saved by automating SAP account unlock requests, per MicrosoftVendor case study[1]

Takeaway

Peggy handled routine employee support before its planned generative-answer expansion.

Categories

Business function
IT and R&D
Innovation type
Process innovation
Evidence
Vendor case study

Sources

Source summaries

[1]Microsoft4 Dec 2023

Microsoft reported that Peggy fulfilled 25% to 40% of help-desk demand. SAP account unlocking alone saved 840 hours annually.

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Added 4 Nov 2026 · Updated 4 Nov 2026
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