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Asset Management Group

The Asset Management Group (AMG) is a pan industry, innovative, inclusive, and trusted group that provides leadership, guidance, and expertise to support continual improvement in the management of assets and technical capability of in the electricity supply industry.

The AMG collaborates across the sector and with key stakeholders to connect the industry, coordinate, collaborate and develop consensus outcomes that continually improve asset management, planning, practice outcomes, while enhancing technical capability, compliance, sharing knowledge, and promoting standardisation.

We are currently seeking new members to join the AMG! Learn more here about your chance to contribute to innovation and influence how asset management and worker safety are delivered across the industry!

Objectives

  • Provide a focal point that supports, informs and influences decision makers and stakeholders.
  • Collaborate, coordinate, lead and promote knowledge and good practices in asset management in the NZ electricity industry.
  • Provide advice and guidance to improve industry asset management including understanding issues, decision making, planning, asset condition assessment process and practices, benchmarking and the management of technical issues such as reliability, security of supply, power quality. This would include:
    • Facilitation activities in New Zealand, that will enhance the effectiveness of asset management, and
    • Encouraging the development of practical solutions to improve industry performance.
  • Enable the reporting and sharing of information relating to asset performance, asset information, asset condition assessment process and practices, reliability, security of supply, power quality and equipment failure trends.
  • Provide understanding on the technical implications of new and emerging technologies on existing asset frameworks, including:
    • Industry support in research projects
    • Network Transformation and integration of new technologies and services, and
    • Support the transformation of New Zealand’s power system to become a sophisticated and intelligent
  • Facilitate and support the maintaining and improvement of ESI resilience and response to emergencies.
  • Strategic guidance to support sustainability and lifecycle management of current and future assets.
  • Promote and enable technical engineering capability and professional development in asset management and technical competency.
  • Lead and promote improved technical outcomes through standardisation, recognised good practice systems, data analytics, and sound engineering principles and practice.
  • Provide working level practical advice and guidance to improve industry understanding, support decision making, planning and the management of technologies and issues impacting asset management.

    Delivery

    The AMG objectives will be delivered through:

    • A work plan that aligns with the EEA Strategic Activities and Business Plan and Budget
    • The development of guidance and use of standards by the ESI and other key stakeholders
    • Facilitating workshops and forums
    • Responding to industry queries
    • Monitoring New Zealand and overseas trends.
    • Liaising with Government agencies, and other local and international organisations on matters affecting ESI asset management (including issues such as power quality)
    • Benchmarking best practice asset management
    • Disseminating relevant information to industry.
    • Undertaking other matters as determined by the EEA Executive Committee.

    Group members

    • Dr Waqar Qureshi (Chair), Wellington Electricity
    • Jamie Jordan, Transpower
    • Rodger Griffiths, Electronet
    • Michael O’Brien, Powerco
    • Russell Watson, Northpower
    • Mark Chatterton, Unison
    • Mark Zwies, PowerNet
    • Andrew Mulligan, Mainpower
    • Wei Hao Zhou, Waipa Networks
    • Craig Wong, Orion
    • Feng Wu, Horizon Networks

    AMG advisor and projects manager is Dr Stuart Johnston – EEA Principal Advisor (Engineering & Technical)

    Documents

    Asset Management Group