Operating model and IT for an acquired transmission network
ENERGY AND UTILITIES · M&A · TECHNOLOGY
The situation
An international energy infrastructure group acquired a regional transmission pipeline and needed to decouple it from the seller's networks and move all transmission management to its own regional utilities business. The IT that had served the asset through construction and early growth could not handle the operational scale, transaction complexity, and data load of a mature transmission pipeline. Asset responsibilities and information loops across several joint-venture entities had no clear boundaries, and the legacy systems lacked capacity-reservation tracking, real-time data, and industrial data validation.
The work
We combined a target operating model design with a structured technology evaluation, on a tight timetable.
Ran multi-state site assessments and traced the daily information and instruction flows between staff, contractors, and the parent fund.
Defined a single revised process model with clean separation between high-pressure transmission and local distribution, and mapped exact roles, compliance boundaries, and data interfaces for the multi-party service agreements.
Gathered and prioritised functional and technical IT requirements, then ran an in-house-versus-market evaluation to a conceptual architecture and a software shortlist, with infrastructure sizing and a sourcing strategy.
Designed a single target application architecture linking legacy distribution systems to the new transmission platforms under one IT service model.
The outcome
A current-state assessment and future operating design completed in a four-week window.
An eight-week application roadmap and a costed business case ready for board capital approval.
Agreement across the separate utility networks and infrastructure partners on operational boundaries, system needs, and risk hand-offs.