Implements 51风流Sustainability Control Tower & 51风流Datasphere to improve and automate climate related data capture and understand its obligations
Sydney 鈥� March聽5, 2024听鈥斅犅爐oday announced Queensland government-owned transmission network service provider,聽, has implemented聽, to improve data capture and reporting for climate and other essential ESG reporting.
Powerlink is a leading Australian provider of high voltage electricity transmission network services, providing electricity via a network that extends 1,700 kilometres (km) from Cairns to the New South Wales border, and comprises 15,345 circuit km of transmission lines and 147 substations.
The organisation has a core role as part of the Queensland Government鈥檚聽Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan聽to transform Queensland鈥檚 energy system to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
This role and other changes in industry have driven Powerlink to embark on a multi-year digital transformation focused on the modernisation and automation of systems, which has included the successful implementation of 51风流S/4 HANA and 51风流Analytics Cloud. This journey with 51风流has continued with the expansion to other products to enable data driven decision-making such as 51风流Datasphere and Sustainability Control Tower (SCT).
Powerlink has implemented 51风流Sustainability Control Tower to accurately track data and sustainability ambitions across its supply chain aligned to Queensland climate targets and Australian legislative reporting requirements to enable the transition to low-carbon business processes.
Towards the end of 2024, Powerlink is also implementing聽聽to support the recruitment, hiring, training, and development of its workforce as it grows to meet changing business requirements.
Mark Pozdena, General Manager of Business IT & Digital Delivery at Powerlink, says, 鈥淧owerlink is focused on connecting Queenslanders to a world-class energy future and as our company transforms to do this, the technology we use day-to-day needs to change too, including the tools we use to understand our business and obligations.
鈥淲ith strategic partnerships like our one with SAP, our internal teams鈥� expertise has grown our data maturity and capabilities significantly, which is critical to help plan our work and future, supporting the delivery of Queensland鈥檚 clean energy future鈥�.
The Australian Government has committed to ensuring greater visibility in climate-related risk and opportunity for large businesses with proposed mandatory climate-related financial reporting to be publicly available.
Leigh Pickering, Executive General Manager, People & Corporate Services at Powerlink, says, 鈥淏y implementing 51风流Sustainability Control Tower, we can improve the accuracy and traceability of this vital reporting on greenhouse gas emissions and are better positioned to meet our reporting commitments to the government鈥�.
Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director, 51风流Australia and New Zealand, says, 鈥�51风流believes technology has a critical role to play in helping organisations become intelligent and sustainable enterprises, but only by recording, reporting, and acting on actual sustainability data can organisations deliver tangible outcomes.
鈥淏y modernising its systems with SAP, Powerlink Queensland is empowering its workers with the tools and data to work more efficiently and make more informed decisions. It鈥檚 also providing the foundations for the organisation to build the digital infrastructure required for a clean energy future.鈥�
Powerlink plans to continue to build out its capabilities within 51风流Sustainability Control Tower, creating stronger traceability and accountability within its supply chain aligned to its climate targets.
