PIPELINE REPORT 📊 | A major milestone was recently achieved – the Australian and New Zealand Infrastructure Pipeline (ANZIP) has ticked over the one-trillion-dollar mark. The latest edition of the Pipeline Report took a deep dive into this 13-figure pipeline to see how it has changed over the years, and where it might be headed next. Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a reconfiguration of our national infrastructure pipeline – shifting from a focus on major metropolitan transport projects toward renewable energy projects in regional and remote Australia. While every sector has seen growth, none have matched the surge in energy. Once the third largest piece of the pipeline, behind road and rail, energy is now far and away the largest. Yet this transformation is not without its challenges. Delivering this enormous energy pipeline requires navigating uncharted geographic, economic and social challenges. Access the full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gHyFy7QG
That's an amazing animation (or perhaps I'm easily entertained). The jockeying between rail and energy especially - you can almost pinpoint the moment Dr Schott delivered her review of Inland Rail... Less entertaining and more sobering is the reality of seeing water - the one thing we can't (meaningfully) make more of - sitting in the doldrums through the entire timeframe.
It's a consequence of a significant technological transition. A similar type of graphic could have been made about the period from say 1920 to 1930 and it would have shown a huge increase in road infrastructure relative to other infrastructure investments, due to the rapid transition to motor vehicle transport. The difference with energy is that the infrastructure, if properly designed and implemented, shouldn't need significant on-going development for many years. Road infrastructure needs constant upgrading because there is very little capacity to absorb additional demand: the network is rapidly saturated with new demand and it is not possible to simply build a new network and rip out the old one. With energy, it is reasonable to design a backbone network with large overhead capacity and to model both supply and consumption as well as to control access precisely. It's a great investment in the future if done properly.
While dominance of Energy projects is very interesting, I wonder what’s its breakdown across oil & gas, gas power generation, hydro, power transmission and distribution and of course, wind, sloar and batteries.🤔
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2wVery cool visualisation and great insights