Customising the partnership - standardising the delivery: driving mutual benefits in outsource energy partnerships

How does a small New Zealand energy company drive mutual benefits from outsourced energy partnerships with a diverse mix of industry partners and customised asset base? Pioneer Generation Limited (Pioneer) is a New Zealand based, community trust owned, generation company that has assets with a replacement value of $500m. A number of these are deeply embedded within, and are integral to, our Partners' core processes. The mix of assets Pioneer owns and/or manages are quite diverse ranging from regional electrical networks, thermal direct heat and energy, hydro and wind generation, as well as a number of standby reciprocating generators. The company's asset management challenge is to ensure we have a consistent approach to managing and optimising our asset performance coupled with a need to have our outsource partners share our asset management journey to achieve our mutual and separate business goals.