Review of Renewable Energy Project for a Water Utility Engagement Profile
Review of Renewable Energy Project Engagement Profile
Review of Renewable Energy Project Engagement Profile
Civil Maintenance Process Benchmarking Engagement Profile
The challenge In June 2017, ARENA and AEMO launched a tender to secure a demand response market in South Australia and Victoria to secure approximately 100MW of response capacity by summer 2017/2018. ARENA specifically indicated that $22.5m of funding would be made available to institutions, businesses and/or aggregators who could propose more than 5MW of…
Western Water is experiencing a major period of growth, with its served population expected to increase from 155,000 people in 2013 to 194,000 by the end of the current water plan period in 2018. A longer-range estimate of 500,000 people is forecast for 2030.[1] Western Water’s strategic plan has a core strategic theme that is…
North Western Power (NWP) identified a financial opportunity to build a 5MW solar farm in regional QLD. NWP had already conducted an initial technical feasibility study to assess the connection potential, including the capex, opex and likely energy generation, however required a detailed business case and financial model to assess the financial returns and to…
A regional Australian water business has implemented a Productivity Improvement Strategy based on an in-house model which continues to be the preferred option for delivery of maintenance services. Whilst the business made it very clear that undertaking formal market testing of Civil and EMM maintenance services was highly unlikely in the short to medium term,…
Our client, a regional Distribution Network Service Provider with one of the largest network areas in Australia, faced a number of issues in relation to the delivery of vegetation management (VM) services including an incomplete and problematic outsourcing arrangement, high levels of urgent work and constrained funding. The current approach was simply not sustainable. However…
Our client, a Victorian regional water retailer, had recently restructured to accommodate its hardship function within its credit and collections operation. The intentions behind merging these groups were to place renewed effort on the growing hardship debt book, to bring the organisation further in line with best practice debt collection in the utilities sector and…
Recent Engagement: In response to growing interest in the ability of digital metering to improve the way the water industry delivers services to customers, Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) identified the need to develop a business case for their implementation in its service area. Complicating this was the wide range of possible scenarios QUU needed to…
Recent Engagement: Our client, one of Australia’s largest service providers to the utilities industry, was assessing opportunities to pursue new business in the Australian and New Zealand renewable energy sector. It required a clear and up to date view of the addressable market for electrical services related to renewable generation over the next five years. MHC…