Organisations: the relationships shaping A/NZ's energy transition

Energy projects don't exist in isolation. Behind every project is a network of developers, asset owners, contractors, consultants, suppliers and service providers, each playing a role in bringing it to life.

Having better visibility into these relationships helps us understand the market, not just individual assets. Who's involved, what role they play, where they've worked and who they work with can tell us a lot about how this growing industry operates.

RenewMap has expanded its Organisations tracking to bring this level of intelligence to the energy and data centre markets across Australia and New Zealand.

RenewMap now maps 30+ different industry roles across 2,800+ organisations and 35,000+ relationships, all connected to more than 4,500 energy and data centre projects across Australia and New Zealand.

Since July last year we have more than doubled the number of organisations tracked while expanding the level of detail we capture about their involvement in the industry.

The result is broader coverage of the companies behind projects, alongside a much more granular understanding of what they do.

A project is the visible output of a broader ecosystem of organisations working together, contributing expertise, capital, equipment and services at different stages of its development. Understanding and mapping these complex relationships provides another layer of intelligence, revealing how the industry is structured and how organisations participate across multiple projects.

We wrote about how we evolved our data model to support this in Beyond projects: how we model the A/NZ energy industry →

RenewMap Organisations brings this intelligence into the same view as its project pipeline and operational network data. Teams can now explore the broader ecosystem of companies involved, see their project portfolios and identify roles and relationships across the whole project lifecycle.

For developers and asset owners, this means a better way to identify potential project partners with the right experience to help progress a project. For example, a developer planning a wind farm in Queensland might be looking for a planning consultant who has successfully taken a project through approvals in the past two years.

With RenewMap, they can filter the national pipeline to Queensland wind farms approved in the past two years, and switch to the Organisations view to see every company involved across those projects. From there, they can look at each organisation's portfolio, get a sense of their experience and find the consultants who have worked on similar developments.

For contractors, suppliers and industry service providers, Organisations provides a greater visibility into who is delivering projects. Track everything from prime contractors and EPCs, minor and subcontractors, civil and electrical balance of plant providers, OEMs and more. This information can help uncover new opportunities and relationships worth pursuing.

Consider a supplier looking to work on data centre developments in NSW. They can filter for active data centre projects, move into the Organisations view and explore the consultants involved, like lead architect, noise or visual impact consultants. With RenewMap, suppliers have a much more targeted way to identify organisations already active in the market and understand the projects and organisations they're connected to.

Or a battery OEM looking to identify contractors working across recently awarded projects. By filtering in RenewMap for projects that reached Final Investment Decision (FID) after a certain date, they can identify the major and minor contractors involved, shortlist the five most relevant projects, add them to a Watchlist and follow project updates as they progress. Saving all those in a custom Workspace gives the entire team a way to keep track of those opportunities and milestones over time.

These are just a few examples of how better visibility into industry relationships can help teams move beyond searching for individual projects and start understanding the wider market around them.

Until now, building this picture has required piecing together information from project announcements, company websites and other fragmented sources. Understanding an organisation's experience, its involvement across multiple projects and its connections to other companies has taken considerable manual research.

We're making that intelligence easier to find and explore, directly alongside the project information it's connected to.

This is another step in our ongoing development of RenewMap. We've always focused on bringing fragmented industry information together and making it easier to find, understand and act on.

With growing project data, Operational Insights and now deeper intelligence on Organisations, we're continuing to build a platform that helps the industry make better-informed decisions and progress projects with greater confidence.