Utilities Strategy Community

Hi All,

I am new to the TBM Council, and it may be that the expectation is that members develop their own models and these are not shared, but I thought I'd ask.

Does the organisation or any members have a TBM model (or spreadsheet or csv file) that integrates the utilities extension to the base taxonomy that they could share?  If not, does anyone have any contacts whom I could ask if they have such a model?

I've read through much of the 'TBM Taxonomy' v5.0.1 paper of 17 July 2025 and the 'Taxonomy Extension: Utilities' v1.0 paper of 17 April 2025, which extends the 'technology solutions' layer to utilities. I see the taxonomy extension paper has a 'How to Implement This Extension' section, but that looks like quite an involved process.

AEMO is looking at a number of options as the basis for a common Business Capability Model (BCM) for the electricity and gas industries in Australia, and the TBM taxonomy is one such option that was suggested by Adrian Thivy of Endeavour Energy, previously at Origin Energy. 

Our intention is to consider developing such an Industry BCM that could then become a common capability framework for the industry and regulators to use as a benchmark to assess, compare and plan digital investments, and to make staff skills more transferable across the industry. It could also assist us in making an industry case for changes in the Government's regulatory cost recovery assessments of the Network Service Providers (including perhaps to allow OpEx increases and/or allow TotEx rather than only CapEx, for investments in growing SaaS and cloud services). I note we're still just at the conceptual stage and none of this has been committed to by AEMO or by industry members.

Regards,

Jeremy

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Jeremy O'KEEFE
Strategy & Architecture Specialist
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Sydney, Australia
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Hi Jeremy,

Thank you for reaching out. 

Having read your post, the short answer to your questions is to download the generic TBM taxonomy as well as the Utilities extension, and then go through each Technology Solution, deciding if this is applicable for AEMO in general. 

As you mentioned, this process can take some time, but this is time well spent in my experience, since applying a generic framework to your situation will require some business knowledge.

The Utilities Strategy Community has been in a hiatus over the summer, but we are looking to start up again soon. If you are interested in participating, and interacting with other practitioners in this space, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly. 

Best regards,
Joen Meier Olsen

Co-chair, Utilities Strategy Community
joen.olsen@ibm.com 

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Joen Olsen
Sr. Mgr., Strategy Advisors
Apptio, an IBM Company
joen.olsen@ibm.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-15-2025 01:58
From: Jeremy O'Keefe
Subject: Is there a TBM model integrating the utilities extension to the base taxonomy that can be shared?

Hi All,

I am new to the TBM Council, and it may be that the expectation is that members develop their own models and these are not shared, but I thought I'd ask.

Does the organisation or any members have a TBM model (or spreadsheet or csv file) that integrates the utilities extension to the base taxonomy that they could share?  If not, does anyone have any contacts whom I could ask if they have such a model?

I've read through much of the 'TBM Taxonomy' v5.0.1 paper of 17 July 2025 and the 'Taxonomy Extension: Utilities' v1.0 paper of 17 April 2025, which extends the 'technology solutions' layer to utilities. I see the taxonomy extension paper has a 'How to Implement This Extension' section, but that looks like quite an involved process.

AEMO is looking at a number of options as the basis for a common Business Capability Model (BCM) for the electricity and gas industries in Australia, and the TBM taxonomy is one such option that was suggested by Adrian Thivy of Endeavour Energy, previously at Origin Energy. 

Our intention is to consider developing such an Industry BCM that could then become a common capability framework for the industry and regulators to use as a benchmark to assess, compare and plan digital investments, and to make staff skills more transferable across the industry. It could also assist us in making an industry case for changes in the Government's regulatory cost recovery assessments of the Network Service Providers (including perhaps to allow OpEx increases and/or allow TotEx rather than only CapEx, for investments in growing SaaS and cloud services). I note we're still just at the conceptual stage and none of this has been committed to by AEMO or by industry members.

Regards,

Jeremy

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Jeremy O'KEEFE
Strategy & Architecture Specialist
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Sydney, Australia
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