Electricity utilities face many challenges when dealing with large swathes of power assets and property data, like lost confidence due to data inaccuracies and missing information. Also, siloed data further complicates data integrity and access, creating a lack of reliability. Unfortunately, disjointed data is a significant risk for electricity and gas utilities in making effective operational and business decisions quickly.
Australian Spatial Analytics can help power utilities with efficient asset and property management by creating accurate data in bulk to enable speedy decision-making. We can help manage asset data from power stations to solar farms, wind farms, gas pipelines, and transmission and distribution infrastructure.
We’ve done this on complex electrical networks with our award-winning Energy Queensland project, formed by the merger of two electricity entities, Energex and Ergon. As these were separate government entities, an enormous amount of highly technical work was required to merge multiple legacy systems. Our team undertook data cleaning, validation, and merging asset datasets into a unified ‘single source of truth’ using the Esri Utility Network, which is widely considered the utility management benchmark. Because of this project, ASA now has over 50 qualified users—one of the largest of any spatial consultancy in Australia.
This is one of the largest projects of its kind in the world, keeping track of the physical location and details of Queensland’s electrical infrastructure, consisting of a massive database of over 300,000 subnetworks. To date, our analysts have undertaken data checks and updates over 53,000 sites across 16,000 tasks and 68,000 hours. Our work was also recognised by the Geospatial Council of Australia Queensland division as this landmark project won the 2023 Technical Excellence Award.
Electrical and gas utilities also require precise property data to manage land tenure and customer connections. ASA also has extensive experience in the land data management space. We tested a new cadastral maintenance system for the Queensland Department of Resources, where accurate datasets were generated using automation tools—essential data used in planning and decision-making processes for every development in Queensland.
Our Australian-based neurodiverse workforce undertakes bulk data cleansing and validation for electricity utilities using their strong technical capabilities and experience. We provide a viable alternative to offshore data services for electrical utilities by matching a highly-skilled and motivated group of underemployed people with the Geospatial and Engineering professions.
This means there are no data sovereignty or modern slavery risks as we pay above award rates to a group of disadvantaged Australians to deliver this critical infrastructure work. Plus, our partners create enduring social impact via their supply chains, creating long-term, stable employment for neurodivergent young adults who face a staggering 34% unemployment rate.
Our valued energy clients like Enzen and Energy Queensland have already recognised the exceptional spatial abilities of neurodivergent individuals, utilising their skills to fulfil their data requirements while also making a profound positive impact on the lives of neurodivergent young adults.
Find out how your electricity or gas organisation could embrace neuro(diversity) as a competitive advantage at our Data Services and Talent Services pages.