Overview
AMTD is an international consortium of utilities managing electricity transmission and distribution (T&D), communications and station assets with a common focus on the application of Asset Management across the entire utility organization/business. The core mission of AMTD is to serve as a world-class resource for utilities with T&D assets to improve their practice of asset management. ​

Focus areas

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    Implementing Asset Management Standards
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    Effecting Strategy and Innovation
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    Developing and Iterating on the Asset Management Development Roadmap
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    Developing Asset Technical Knowledge
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    Data-Informed Decision Making
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This group is for

Asset managers, investment planners, risk managers, asset management engineers, managers and program managers, asset strategists, and reliability managers
EXPLORE MEMBERSHIP
Technical Advisors
David Curtis
David Curtis
Asset Management in T&D

David Curtis has been working in the electric utility industry in Ontario for over thirty-seven years. He has experience in asset management, including corporate strategy development, risk management, and asset planning. Mr. Curtis has appeared numerous times as a proponent before the Ontario Energy Board, served on the IESO’s Technical Panel, and was the Canadian member on CIGRE’s C1 System Development and Economics Study Committee. He also has been a Canadian Energy Council Board member, an Electric Power Research Institute Transmission Executive Committee Member, and a member of the Institute’s Power Deliver Unit Council.

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Top Resources
REFERENCE RESOURCE
Library of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Transmission and Distribution Assets
Measuring the success of asset management plans is typically done by reporting against a set of key performance indicators (KPIs). Over the years, T&D electric utilities have developed numerous KPIs of varying usefulness. This project first collected industry-standard T&D KPIs. These were augmented with contributions and input from CEATI member utilities to create an initial library of customized KPIs that can be used by electric T&D utilities as a resource for tracking and measuring the performance of their assets and improving their asset management practices.
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
Asset Management at the Strategic Level
Asset management is a rigorous process for extracting the maximum value from assets over their lifespan. Strategic asset management is seen as the role of enterprise top managers in promoting, guiding, and controlling the complete asset management process. This report presents guidance in top-level, long-term management action. The study distills information from many sources to collect this guidance, including electric utility programs, industry (both electric specific and generic) guidance on strategic asset management, and programs in industries similar to electric power (industries with substantial fleets of equivalent assets spread over a large geographic area).
RESEARCH REPORT
Enterprise Risk Management
As utilities mature and improve their asset management (AM) practices, risk management becomes essential to the broader AM strategy. Ultimately, enterprise risk management (ERM) implementation, details, and quality vary between utilities. This research initiative aimed to identify and develop best practices for ERM implementation that can foster innovation and increase the industry’s level of understanding to achieve ERM benchmarking and comparison. Through teleconference sessions held with CEATI member utilities, participants were able to compare and contrast their ERM implementations with other member utilities and industry best practices to identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Research results, conclusions, and recommendations were integrated into a final report.
BENCHMARKING TOOL
Roadmap for Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Asset Management Investments
This document presents a maturity scale and roadmap to excellence in asset investment optimization. The maturity scale describes a series of defined states of asset investment planning using a five-point scale ranging from “unaware” to “excellent.” The roadmap includes case studies and provides a framework by which asset managers can ensure they have an appropriate methodology in place to quantify the impact of an investment plan and ultimately select a plan that best supports the delivery of the organization’s objectives.
RESEARCH REPORT
Performance Measures of Asset Management Functioning and Effectiveness
This report establishes a common framework for the development of asset management KPIs for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution assets. The resulting framework and list of KPIs were developed based on the ISO 5500X series of standards and guidance from the Institute of Asset Management. The KPI framework and KPI guidelines can be applied by an organization throughout its asset management evolution, whether to aid in the development of its own framework or to benchmark against industry peers.