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Smarter Grid Asset Economics for Resilient Infrastructure Performance
Smarter Grid Asset Economics for Resilient Infrastructure Performance
August 31, 2022 | Online ::
Grid infrastructure takes investment – assets do not stay the same as they age. Do you have a long-term financial plan for managing your grid infrastructure assets? Underinvestment in the short term can carry hidden costs and can become even more costly in the future.
When dealing with grid infrastructure, asset owners can either engage in life-extension activities to maximize and improve current assets and levelize their capital investment, or they can focus on maintenance or wholesale replacement, which can be sporadic, and is becoming less and less feasible in today’s climate.
As availability for grid infrastructure asset replacements dwindles, alternative models are becoming more and more relevant. Will your current plan be able to handle the evolution of the market?
Join us for a webinar to discuss different financial approaches to infrastructure asset management, and their long term impacts on your budgets along with the health and resiliency of your infrastructure. We’ll share the industry-leading approaches that some asset owners are currently using to levelize costs, effectively leverage capital investment, minimize expense, and maximize the long-term health, value, and resiliency of their infrastructure.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the different approaches and time horizons for infrastructure asset investment
- Discover proven approaches to maximize benefit to underlying assets while minimizing expense and levelizing capital investment
- Realize both short- and long-term financial benefits from strategic infrastructure investment planning
- Learn the other ways a strategic approach to grid asset investment can benefit your plant
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 : Central Time
12:50 – 1:00 p.m.
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1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Webinar Timing
- Understand infrastructure investment horizons
- Overview of short-term expense and maintenance strategies
- Overview of wholesale replacement strategies
- Overview of long-term capital investment strategies
- The effects of short-term, wholesale replacement, and long-term capital investment strategies on finances
- The effects of short-term, wholesale replacement, and long-term capital investment strategies on plant health and resiliency
- Building an effective strategy that works for your infrastructure
Connor Spencer, Solutions Consultant, Osmose
Connor Spencer is a Solutions Consultant at Osmose. He is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and spent his career prior to joining Osmose working in finance and strategy at Capital One and UpCounsel. Connor is responsible for financial modeling for distribution plant asset management investment strategies and works with the rest of Osmose’s Solutions Consulting team to refine financial messaging across all Osmose’s product lines.
We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: After November 30 you will not be able to join a Teams meeting using Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft recommends downloading and installing the Teams app if possible. You may also use the Edge browser or Chrome.
- You will receive a meeting invitation will include a link to join the meeting.
- Separate meeting invitations will be sent for the morning and afternoon sessions of the course.
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- If you are using a microphone, please ensure that it is muted until such time as you need to ask a question.
- The remote meeting connection will be open approximately 30 minutes before the start of the course. We encourage you to connect as early as possible in case you experience any unforeseen problems.
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Smarter Grid Asset Economics for Resilient Infrastructure Performance
August 31, 2022 | Online
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