Strategic investment planning

Distribution network organisations (DNO) are facing many different and partly even competing targets. It is their task to find a balance between the requirements of the customers concerning product and service quality at affordable prices as well as the shareholder demands for suitable returns on the capital they invest. Also potential regulatory impacts on revenues and changes in the political perception of e.g. renewable energy have to be focussed. To optimise between these demands system operators have to develop and extend “best practices” in asset management.