Electricity Asset Management Plan 2019-2029
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4.9 OVERVIEW OF OUR DIGITAL NETWORK ASSETS To enable us to support the objectives of the Asset Management Plan through our information systems and digital platform reference model discussed in Section 4.1.13, we have classified our data and information systems, associated capability statements, strategy and lifecycle management approaches according to the functional areas they enable. This enables clear, functional assessment of core capability and consistent terminology and classification across the business internally and externally.
Figure 4-41 Network asset information systems mapping
4.9.1 NETWORK OPERATIONS Overview
The Network Operations domain reflects the need to both actively and passively monitor, manage and optimise the assets to deliver our targeted outcomes. This includes core capabilities such as network control, monitoring, reporting, switching, real time operations and simulation. The Electricity Operation Centre (EOC) monitors the network 24/7 using Vector’s SCADA system, ensuring real-time monitoring and control of Vector’s electricity network. As more customer-side Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as solar and battery installations and rapid EV chargers appear on our network, managing the impact of these DERs on our network is presenting challenges which must be overcome to ensure the best outcome for our customers and the network itself. Also of key importance is outage management, which includes planned and unplanned outages as well as fault management and analysis, and the feedback and analysis needed to ensure network architecture, processes and systems are being improved after faults and other incidents occur. Due to changing weather patterns and higher incidence of extreme weather in recent years as discussed in Section 1, we now need to take live weather feeds into account when planning and operating the electricity network rather than only use historical information.
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