ActewAGL Distribution Asset Management
Electricity Network Asset Strategy and Planning Branch
ActewAGL Distribution, owns, develops, operates and maintains the electricity transmission and distribution
infrastructure in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding region. ActewAGL employees are based in
Canberra – Australia’s capital city. Attributes of the ActewAGL electricity network include:
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Coverage area - 2358 square km
Customers connected - approx 170,000
Overhead lines - 3100km
Underground cables - 4400km
Power poles - 53,000
Zone substations - 14
Distribution substations > 4400 (ground padmounts and chambers)
Operating voltages 132/22/11kV and 415/240v
Peak Demand approx 620MW
ActewAGL’s Asset Strategy and Planning team (ASP team) was established in 2011 as a major Branch in the
Asset Management Division. Through our combined knowledge skills and experience our mission is to provide
a centre of excellence that demonstrates innovative and robust planning and effective asset performance
leadership. A key strategy is to continue and build upon a well planned and executed infrastructure
replacement program based on PAS 55 methodology and Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) that controls
costs while meeting customer and community reliability expectations.
The ASP team is involved with long term (5-20 year) network modelling and investment planning and
electricity demand forecasting, monitoring network asset reliability performance, asset failure analysis,
developing replacement, refurbishment and maintenance policy and programs, network augmentation option
studies and business case analysis, network concept design and planning approvals, system protection
schemes and SCADA design and implementation.
Current major programs of work include moderisation and development of new zone substations, transmission
and high voltage distribution line augmentations and installation of the latest distribution automation and
management system technologies to monitor and control the network.
Broadly the ASP team contains five key strategic functional areas:
Asset Strategy: Long term 5-20 year planning and capital investment, demand forecasting and development of
the overall Asset Management Strategic Plan
Network Augmentation: High Voltage network augmentation and capacity planning and approvals
Network Performance: OH and UG network maintenance policy, performance and reliability improvement
programs
Zone Substation Planning and Performance: Planning, design, maintenance policy and performance
improvement programs
Secondary Systems - Protection and Real Time Systems (SCADA): Planning, design, implementation and
system performance monitoring and improvement programs
Dennis Stanley - February 2012