Asset Management and Asset Service
In the grid area, the need for active asset management is growing due to the productivity and efficiency requirements of the Federal Network Agency. These efficiency requirements are being passed on to asset service - and are thus reducing budgets here for work performance, whilst at the same time new competitors are entering the market with other cost structures. The roles, structures and processes in the grid area must be optimised in this conflicting area.
The top priority for asset management is to steer the profitability of plants. This means that there must be integrated responsibility in asset management for basic planning, regulation and contract management, as well as financial asset controlling.
Regulation managers in asset management are required to identify their efficiency potential and to determine the effects on revenue developments with a view to incentive-based regulation. Companies must assess which costs the regulatory authorities will recognise for which services and this, in turn, will determine the company's specific degree of efficiency and revenue targets.
The best way to boost efficiency is to steer set-up organisation and workflow organisation according to the customer/client principle with tasks strictly assigned between asset management and asset service.
The prime factors in asset service are efficiency and low costs in services. Co-operation and the outsourcing of individual services are becoming increasingly important, as are the accumulation of expertise in the field of decentralised energy generation and "smart" technologies as the business fields of tomorrow.
