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Electricity network

A distribution business is preparing a regulatory reset. Its repex proposal has to survive a regulator who has rejected volume-based replacement arguments twice, and it needs to show risk, not age, driving the programme.

Who this is for

Three people, one budget argument

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Asset strategy manager

Owns the plan and answers for it. Everything on screen is built to make that week easier.

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Reliability engineer

Holds the budget line and carries the valuation. Cares about defensibility before features.

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Head of regulation

Signs, and is the one asked the awkward question in public. Needs one page, not a tour.

Asset classes

What AIPP scores in this industry

Electricity Elec Transformer Elec Substation Elec Poles Elec Cables
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Configured for this industry out of the box: condition on the CNAIM_HI scale, the ENERGY weighting profile, budget shown as Regulatory period repex allowance, and the instruments it answers to (CIGRE_TB, IEEE_C57_104, IEEE1366, AS_NZS_7000) named on every score. All of it is yours to change — the weights are sliders, not our opinion.

The honest bit

6 of 30 assets will not score

That is the demo register for this industry, and the gaps are deliberate. AIPP refuses to rank an asset the evidence does not support — it will not apply a curve, a zero or a middle grade to a thing nobody has inspected. 20% of this register comes back unranked, with the reason named.

6 of 30 assets carry NO condition evidence and NO age. That is deliberate. A demo register where everything scores teaches a prospect nothing about what happens to the two-thirds of their own register that will not — and it is exactly where most tools quietly invent a zero. Open the demo on these.

How it runs

From export to defensible programme

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Health indices already calculated in your own system load as bands; DGA status loads as transformer condition. AIPP does not recompute either.

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Bushfire and safety consequence weight above service continuity — the emphasis a network regulator expects to see.

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Ranking is by monetised risk reduction, not by asset age or installation vintage.

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The repex envelope constrains the programme; the deferred set is reported with its reliability effect.

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The prudency narrative exports with the basis of every figure, including which coefficients are AIPP's.

What you will see

The screens that matter here

What we do not claimStart here, because it is the fastest way to know whether to trust the rest. CNAIM is on this list as NOT BUILT. If your health index has to be CNAIM-compliant, we convert the band you already calculated — we do not calculate it.
Age is not riskYour oldest transformer is not first. This one is, because its DGA status is 3 and it feeds a hospital. Vintage-based replacement is what your regulator rejected; this is the alternative.
Barriers, not just conditionHere is the control model behind that risk. Six barriers. Note what happens when their condition is unrecorded — they earn nothing. An unverified control is not a working control, and your regulator will make exactly that point.
What a verification is worthNow record that the vegetation clearance was inspected. The residual falls by this much — attributable to that control, and to the maintenance that keeps it working. That is a sentence you can put in a submission.
The repex storyAnd this is the pack. The programme, the risk it retires, the assets deliberately deferred, and the provenance of every number in it.

Fair questions

What this industry actually asks us

Do you do CNAIM?

No, and it is declared as a gap in the registry rather than blurred. AIPP ranks on a health index you supply and adds the constrained programme and the defence CNAIM does not produce.

Our reliability model already monetises risk.

Good — feed it in as consequence. AIPP's contribution is the constrained multi-year allocation and the audit trail, not a competing risk number.

How do we know your coefficients are right?

They are not yours yet. They are labelled representative and unvalidated everywhere they appear, and the calibration path is a real feature, not a promise.

Run it on your own worst class

Bring one export — the class with the missing condition data and the costs from 2019. If AIPP tells you the truth about it in twenty minutes, that is worth a conversation. If it scores everything and looks clean, tell us so.