by Heidi | Oct 27, 2023
Manitoba Hydro is an integrated utility in Canada. They have a number of assets in the electrical distribution, generation, and transmission energy streams, as well as the delivery of natural gas. Travis Lavallee, Head Office Asset Advisor, will focus on how initial approaches to whole life cost modelling were first developed and utilised to create long term forecasts for the major powertrain assets in the generation stream. It will also explore recent developments to integrate these whole life cost models as part of an asset class strategy, making the tools scalable to allow the approach to be used across the fleet of assets to provide meaningful insights at the class level.
About the speaker:
Travis Lavallee, P.Eng, Asset Advisor (Asset Management Division), Manitoba Hydro, Canada
Travis Lavallee is an Asset Advisor for Manitoba Hydro, within the Asset Management Division. His primary responsibilities are to facilitate the development and optimization of strategies and investment scenarios on a range of asset classes within the Transmission, Distribution and Generation energy streams. Previous to his role in Asset Management, Travis spent the majority of his career working on Major Capital Projects at Manitoba Hydro, specifically during the design, procurement and construction phases of Wuskwatim and Keeyask Generating Stations. Travis holds a Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Manitoba.
by Heidi | Aug 3, 2023
Australia is in the middle of an energy revolution. Energy sources are shifting to renewables, from the bulk end of the supply chain to people’s home solar systems. The needs of energy stakeholders, the technology available to Ausgrid and our customers and governmental policy settings also evolving rapidly as a result. The presentation will discuss these changes and their implications, in the context of asset management during the electrification of assets. Observations will be offered from the perspective of the Capability Delivery Model in terms of stakeholder needs, business objectives, systems engineering, acquisition, operations & maintenance, configuration management and continuous improvement.
About the speaker:
Matthew Webb, Head of Asset Investment, Ausgrid
Matt has over 30 years experience in managing all aspects of using power systems to meet customers’ electricity needs, including network planning, asset management, regulation and field management.
As Head of Asset Investment, Matt is responsible for Ausgrid’s long-term electricity network investment needs and opportunities in a rapidly changing operating environment. This includes applying asset management and other techniques to:
- Understand changing customer priorities and how Ausgrid will adapt services to meet customer needs and adoption of new technologies.
- Transform network services through innovation and new capabilities needed to manage complex network power flows and deliver efficient renewables hosting capacity.
- Unlock value of customer DER assets and load flexibility to achieve a reduced overall energy cost for customers and improved network utilisation.
- Ready the network to enable the needs of our customers and stakeholders safely, efficiently and equitably, to facilitate a net zero future.
Matt is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, as well as being Ausgrid’s senior representative and a member of the Research Advisory Committee (ReAC) to the RACE for 2030, a national industry led cooperative research centre.
by Heidi | Jul 27, 2023
Data driven sustainable asset management that applies a diagnostics algorithm to actively monitor the performance of solar electric power generation assets. This results in data driven maintenance activity decisions in combination with the asset owners’ financial interests, ensuring the optimum balance between performance and financial drivers.
About the speaker:
Earl Duran, Tech Lead, Diagno Energy
Earl is a quantitative scientist whose thesis centered on exploring the drivers of climate change in Australia using climate big data. Today, he holds a key role as a Tech Lead at Diagno Energy, where he leads the development of a renewable asset optimization service, integrating his expertise in product development and machine learning. Earl and his team at Diagno Energy are addressing major inefficiencies in the operation and maintenance of solar and enhancing fault detection and diagnostic methods for commercial and industrial solar.
This session forms the final in a webinar series presented by MRiAM – Safe and Smart: Use of Technology for Remote Monitoring of Assets.
How do we remove people from dangerous conditions and situations and do our remote monitoring smarter? The Maintenance & Reliability in Asset Management special interest group presents this 5-part series where we look at different types of technologies that can be employed to reduce the risk to people and property.
Join us online and take the opportunity to look into techniques that are less familiar and can be adapted to your industry, or learn more about what others are doing within your own industry!
Registering for this session will register you for all five sessions in the series:
