Name: REZ Management Systems
Uploaded: 2024-07-01T06:12:13.237Z
Description: Adam Homan, Managing Director for AMCL in the APAC region discusses REZ management systems and the value they provide to energy stakeholders. He highlights the importance of early planning and robust information systems, ensuring decisions benefit the entire community.

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Adam: We often talk about

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efficiencies purely in

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terms of cost and spend.

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The way we should be thinking

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about efficiencies is

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more about overall value.

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So what is of value

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to our stakeholders?

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And that is not

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just the spend.

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It's the impact that it

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has on them as a community.

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My name's, Adam Homan.

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I'm the managing director for

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AMCL and the APAC territory.

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Tuan: What are the essential

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design elements when

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laying the foundation for

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REZ management systems?

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Adam: There's a lot

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that goes into designing

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a management system.

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I'd say specific for

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renewable energy zones.

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We've heard a lot over,

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over the course of the

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conference about a lot of

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stakeholder challenges.

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A lot of concerns about

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how these will be rolled

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out across, not just

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New South Wales but

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Australia more broadly.

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I think fundamental to

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really getting the design

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right for the management

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systems is capturing

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those stakeholder needs.

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Really gaining a strong and

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nuanced understanding with

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them and articulating those

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in objectives for what you're

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trying to achieve as a REZ

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business, particularly from a

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network operator perspective.

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So once you've understood

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those needs and articulated

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objectives, you can then go

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into designing a management

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system that's fit for purpose

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for the infrastructure

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that will be developed.

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And that needs to cover

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across the framework.

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The people of

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the organization.

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The processes that they

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will follow and the

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information and technology

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that will enable them to

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be efficient and effective.

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Tuan: How would you design REZ

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management systems to be more

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cost effective and efficient?

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Adam: So I guess everything

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we're trying to do is

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really about efficiency

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and effectiveness.

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And that is the purpose

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of the, the management

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system itself to coordinate

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everybody around achieving the

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objectives that you've set in

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an efficient, effective way.

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To do that effectively,

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you need to start early in

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establishing your framework.

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If you're trying to do it as

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an afterthought just prior to

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energization, you've missed

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the boat in gaining a lot

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of the benefits out of it.

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So if we start early we

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can start making, we can

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design the framework in a

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way that allows us to apply

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whole of life decision

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making from the outset.

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And if you can do that from

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the start, you don't have

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to unpick bad decisions

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later which is where they

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become the most costly.

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And I guess the final point

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I'd make on that is, we often

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talk about efficiencies purely

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in terms of cost and spend.

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The way we should be thinking

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about efficiencies is

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more about, overall value.

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So what is of value to

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to our stakeholders?

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And that is not

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just the spend.

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It's the impact that it

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has on them as a community

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and  the whole economic

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spectrum of sustainability.

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Management systems are all

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about  coordinating us to

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make effective decisions.

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Information is a

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critical part of that.

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If you, if you don't

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have information you're

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entirely reliant on

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judgment and assumptions.

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That's typically when

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you end up in a scenario

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of the loudest voice

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winning the argument.

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So information is critical.

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We need to have a strong

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understanding of, what is

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that critical information?

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What are the standards that we

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need to apply for collecting

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that information and then

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using it to make decisions?

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Management systems will

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evolve as the discipline and

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practice of management systems

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evolves and moves forward.

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We talk about a maturity

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scale where we go from

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innocence to excellence.

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So there's a progression

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along that journey I guess

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from a REZ perspective.

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The management systems

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will evolve as the

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developments of all through

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the phases of the project.

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So when you're in the early

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stages of defining your

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bid and your design and

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what you're setting out to

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achieve, you're starting

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to populate pockets of that

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management system and then

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you build it out as you go

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through through the build

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phase and into operation.

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You've got a fully

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developed management system.

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Ideally, you should be in

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the middle of that maturity

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scaling in into competence

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and looking at okay, how do

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I take myself forward through

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effectiveness into excellence?

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Adam Homan, Managing Director for AMCL in the APAC region discusses REZ management systems and the value they provide to energy stakeholders. He highlights the importance of early planning and robust information systems, ensuring decisions benefit the entire community.