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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