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The world today is striving for decarbonisation to contribute to a future where generations can thrive and flourish. Aurecon partners with organisations to lead their decarbonisation transformation when faced with the challenges of climate change, regulatory and investor pressure, and changing customer expectations.
Monumental shifts are now required to transition existing industries and infrastructure. Creating new pathways for low carbon energy and materials means overcoming stress and stranded asset risk in energy generation, transmission networks and industrial assets. In developing scenarios tailored to an organisation’s business risk and emission profile, value and economic prosperity can be unlocked.
Aurecon understands how complex assets and their value chains operate, and the unique challenges and opportunities facing clients. Shaping sustainable and reliable energy and materials, and asset-related strategies and solutions, is how we co-create positive change with organisations currently reimagining their role in the energy transition.
As organisations undertake this transformation, energy transition and decarbonisation become critical levers to achieving net zero.
An organisation’s transition will not be linear or singular. There will be multiple scenarios unfolding at different paces and in different ways; however, the common factor across organisations and assets is that everything matters. Every business requires full visibility of greenhouse gas emissions impacts across asset portfolios and the value chains they operate within. Determining solutions that create and redefine value is challenging.
Aurecon’s difference is that we combine a multitude of technical, commercial and strategic skills, together with market and asset experience, so that our clients’ operations are sustained and augmented in a carbon constrained world. We’re used to holding concepts in tension, and rebalancing energy and carbon environment factors with economic drivers, whole-of-system risks, social value commitments, and digital and business disruptions.
Our biggest impact is in assisting organisations and investors to respond to risks and opportunities. To transform value chains, secure clean energy supply, and rapidly decarbonise processes, operations and materials.
By bringing together a deep technical understanding of assets – and how to preserve and multiply their value towards net zero – we support clients to navigate energy transition and decarbonisation with strategies, design, synthesis, and insights.
Energy transition and decarbonisation favours activities that ensure value in the form of energy, materials management, and sustainable development.
Used the right way, the transformation opportunity can help organisations bring into focus what is truly in their commercial interest. When an organisation can clearly see its carbon impacts in the form of operations and materials that could otherwise be optimised (either internally or along its value chain), it can rebalance with efficiencies or switching technologies. This becomes particularly important as accounting standards demand increased transparency, and as implicit and explicit carbon costs become applicable to more companies and is priced into decision making.
The systems-wide approach adopted by Aurecon enables us to tailor solutions to the specific needs of each client. Our knowledge of value chains ensures we can inform our client’s businesses with strategic advice, transition pathway design, asset design and delivery, and investment guidance:
Energy transactions – Technical due diligence and investment support.
Electricity networks – Strategic advice to optimise, transform, integrate, and deploy assets, such as planning for Renewable Energy Zones.
Electrification and industrial transformation – Preserving and unlocking value across individual asset sites, portfolios, and value chains, on the road to achieving net zero and creating green products.
Decarbonisation strategies – Emissions reduction pathway design, techno-economic modelling, project planning and implementation, for hard-to-abate industries and sectors.
Future fuels – Low emissions technologies evaluation and enablement, supporting the planning and execution of fuel switching and other industrial transformation, including hydrogen and its derivatives.
Social licence – Preserving social and ecological value, in combination with financial value, in asset closure, lifecycle extension, or transformation activities.
Transition risk – Managing the planning, communication and delivery of decarbonisation aspirations by addressing transition risk, and ESG (environment, social, governance) factors.
Carbon abatement – An engineering approach to carbon abatement through practical, measurable and technically designed interventions across the assets, infrastructure and systems that produce emissions. Refer to our carbon-related policies: Financial Services Guide (PDF), Complaints Policy (PDF)
There are enormous challenges and opportunities ahead, and Aurecon’s wealth of knowledge and experience is making a difference for clients, particularly those operating in hard-to-abate sectors:
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