Securing project collaboration

摘要

Energy Source & Distribution talks to Intraiinks product strategy energy and utilities vice president, Peter Bongiorno about securing critical systems during industry project collaboration. The worldwide energy industry is in the grips of a frenetic investment in project infrastructure, according to Peter Bongiorno. The US-based critical information management expert has seen tremendous advancement take place in South America's hydro plants and resource mines, growing momentum in the halls of Washington DC for a nuclear program and the rollout of smart grid programs and numerous wind farm developments in Australia. According to ABARE's April project report, there are 15 major electricity generation projects at an advanced stage in Australia with a total generating capacity of 2687 MW and value of around 4.9 billion dollars. There were a further 127 projects at a less advanced stage of development at that time. Mr Bongiorno estimates in the US alone the projected capital infrastructure spend is between 1.5 dollars to 2.0 trillion dollars over the next 20 years. "It's explosive," Mr Bongiorno told ESD, "between environmental sensitivities', global warming, the shift to and the focus on electrical infrastructure, electric vehicles, wind farms (and) the need to put the transmission infrastructure in place to transmit energy from locations and sources that basically are new."