VISIONING, STRATEGIC PLANNING AND CAPITAL BUDGETING

Quanta Technology shapes your business and technology vision into clarity and translates it to an implementation roadmap that is both strategic and practical.  The depth and breadth of our expertise with engineering, automation and information technologies - as well as our long-established thought leadership in the energy utilities industry - ensures that the vision and strategic roadmap will be holistic. Our hands-on and management experience of the utility business and operations ensures that the implementation plan will be realistic and the expected business results are achievable. Our typical visioning, strategic planning and capital budgeting engagement includes the following key elements:

VISION – Getting clarity on your overall vision of the company business, investment strategy, customer strategy, energy management, grid and field operations, asset investment and management

TECHNOLOGY – A strategic architectural blueprint, including energy delivery and enterprise IT systems, that leverages your existing technology investments, people and infrastructure assets as well as emerging technologies

ORGANIZATION – Potential impacts of implementing transformational technologies such as Smart Grid on the organization, engineering and operation guidelines, resource planning, and business processes

INFRASTRUCTURE – Effects of the strategic technology roadmap on the capital planning of the energy delivery system infrastructure and the IT/telecom infrastructure

DATA – Enterprise integration of the technology systems to maximize energy delivery asset performance, operational efficiency, and other enterprise benefits of available data from the systems and to facilitate the management of data needed to maintain the technology systems

INDUSTRY PRACTICES – Lessons learned from the energy utility and other industries that Quanta Technology brings to complement your experience

STRATEGIC PLAN – Considers your business priorities, capital budgeting, availability of technology and data, high-level costs and benefits, your resource constraints, coordination of other ongoing strategic initiatives, regulatory guidance and timetables, risk management strategy, etc.

Samples of strategic plan content include:

ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEM STRATEGY – Assess the energy delivery system infrastructure needs in a 10-year or longer planning horizon, including long term capital planning, proposed existing and future operating procedures, automation and protection, connection of distributed resources (e.g. wind, photovoltaic, storage, etc.), and impact of demand response and demand enabling devices (e.g., dynamic pricing, in-home programmable/communicating devices, plug-in hybrid vehicles, etc.); Provide strategic recommendations to reduce capital costs of the energy delivery system

RENEWABLE ENERGY – Plan for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and energy efficiency programs to meet renewable energy portfolio standards and address challenges and opportunities at increased penetration levels

ENERGY DELIVERY AND IT ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS – Integrated strategy of IT systems and applications to enable enterprise benefits and to support the energy delivery system and renewable energy portfolio strategies, including:

    • Energy Management System/SCADA
    • Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection and Control
    • Substation and Distribution Automation
    • Distribution Management System/Outage Management System
    • Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Meter Data Management (MDM)
    • Demand Response, Home Area Network, In-home Programmable and Communicating Devices
    • Distributed Energy Resources such as Photovoltaic, Wind, Storage, Electric Vehicles, etc.
    • Customer Information System and Multimedia Customer Contact applications
    • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
    • Geospatial Information System
    • Work and Asset Management
    • Maintenance Management
    • Field Force Automation/Mobile Workforce Management
STRATEGIC CAPITAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION – Optimize capital investment portfolios using a robust, structured and proven approach to ensure proper ranking and selection of initiatives and to manage business and technology risks