CIMIC Group was a proud sponsor of last week’s 2024 Partnerships conference hosted by Infrastructure Partnerships Conference.
The event featured robust conversations about the critical factors influencing the Australian infrastructure environment from industry, economic and government leaders.
Doug Moss, Managing Director of CIMIC Group’s UGL, spoke on the ‘Delivering the energy transition’ panel including our clients, suppliers and government.
The panel explored several aspects of the energy transition, including policy, regulations, investment prospects, and both technical challenges and opportunities.
Doug outlined the unique position that UGL has in the market as a leading contractor delivering for our clients.
“We've been constructing these assets for more than 50 years now, including over 6,000 kilometers of transmission lines, hundreds of substations, switch yards, numerous solar farms, battery energy storage systems and gas fired power stations,” he said. “It’s a very exciting time with lots going on, and I know our people are very excited to be part of it.”
He said trust and relationships would be important, given the size of the energy transition ahead: “I think it's going to take a lot of strong relationships and trust to make this happen in line with the 2030 and 2050 targets. There is a mountain of work to be done and it will involve everybody in the country and lots of people will be affected by the work. We have strong relationships with our clients, our supplier base, our subcontractors, and that entire ecosystem. It's going to be really exciting for the next couple of decades. From our point of view, there's going to be plenty of very interesting, important work.”
UGL provides specialist engineering design, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance across the energy sector. They work across traditional and renewable energy generation and storage, transmission and distribution. As well as providing life-extension and decommissioning support to traditional energy producers as the energy mix changes in Australia.