Transmission & Distribution Advisory

Safety & Audit

Safety, performance and compliance are always at the forefront of our client’s priorities. Understanding the risks, and identifying and evaluating ways to mitigate risk, is critical to delivering an organisation’s objectives. The focus of the Safety and Audit practice area is to support our client, manage risk and maintain compliance.

Risk management

We help our clients develop new, or review existing, risk management strategies in alignment with the principles of ISO 31000 and AS 5577.
Licence conditions

We evaluate compliance of our clients against their prescribed licence conditions, ensuring that our clients are aware of areas of their business requiring attention, and providing practical recommendations.
Ring fencing

We assess whether clients are in compliance with their ring-fencing obligations and not creating commercial conflicts-of-interest.
Safety

We support our clients develop new, or review existing, safety management frameworks and systems against current and emerging regulatory and risk management requirements.

Network Planning & Operations

The changing energy landscape requires networks to innovate and evolve. The focus of the Network Planning & Operations practice area is to support clients identify, evaluate and implement opportunities to improve the method their networks meet the competing demands of a modern, two way flow power system.

The infrastructure mix

We support our clients plan for the energy transition through strategic planning, addressing both present and anticipated market settings, regulatory reform, and jurisdictional requirements.
Interaction with REZs

We support REZ planners, operators, and existing electricity networks navigate wide ranging challenges of the transition including network planning standards, generator connection planning, and access standards.
Short and Long term planning

We support our clients with awareness surrounding the intricacies of the energy transition from a network perspective given the advent of a two way power system, and the criticality of both near and long term forecasting and planning to optimise the power system operations.

Asset Strategy & Optimisation

We support Transmission & Distribution businesses achieve their objectives by providing services including asset management effectiveness reviews, trends assessment and analysis, development and review of business cases and models, capital project delivery efficiency improvement assessments, maintenance efficiency and effectiveness advice, benchmarking and optimisation.

Asset management strategy

We help our clients develop and evaluate asset management strategies based on our experience in the power industry, internationally and domestically, with a top-down (visionary) and bottom-up (practical) approach.
Asset management system

We help our clients develop and evaluate their asset management systems against emerging and industry best-practice (ISO 55001/PAS 55).
Asset modelling

We help our clients understand the evolution of existing and new network assets over their lifetime through modelling and optimisation approaches, whilst highlighting the impact on risk outcomes especially in terms of safety and loss-of-supply.

Revenue Reset

We specialise in providing services to Transmission & Distribution businesses during the preparation of their regulatory submission including:

strategy formulation;
Hybrid regulatory/technical regulatory proposal management office;
regulatory proposal review and support;
capital and operational expenditure justification;
regulatory compliance;
business case development;
expenditure modelling;
tariff arrangements;
investment modelling;
unit rates assessment;
project delivery reviews; and
network performance and system capacity assessments.

Transmission & Distribution Advisory