This webinar, sponsored by IFS Copperleaf, brings together utility leaders, investors and grid technology specialists to examine how capital investment decisions are made — and defended — amid grid modernisation, data centre load growth, cross-border interconnection and tightening regulatory scrutiny. The discussion moves from planning to defence: prioritising and sequencing investment across competing demands, funding modernisation through bankable projects and diversified capital, and building a governed, evidence-based case for capital plans. Perspectives span Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN and Japan, drawing out where these challenges converge and where they diverge.
How should utilities sequence investment across modernisation, interconnection and data centre-driven load growth?
How utilities weigh value, risk, cost and strategic objectives when ageing-infrastructure renewal, renewables/DER integration and sudden data centre and AI-driven load growth all compete for the same budget — and what a defensible, scenario-tested capital plan looks like in practice.
Where will the capital come from, and how should it be prioritised when modernisation needs outstrip available funding?
Funding for grid modernisation and the trade-offs in allocating capital: tariff and rate-base constraints, regulated revenue determinations, blended and multilateral finance, private and project finance structures, and the policy harmonisation and capacity building needed to make projects bankable. Comparative perspectives from Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN and Japan.
As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, how can utilities govern assumptions and evidence their capital plans with confidence?
How utilities connect regulatory monitoring directly to investment assumptions, govern those assumptions, and respond to challenge with traceable, cited evidence rather than reconstructing rationale after the fact.
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