Success Story
Renewable Energy Organization Builds Scalable Project Controls for Pumped Hydro Program
About
A government-owned Australian renewable energy organization delivering a major pumped hydro energy storage program needed a more robust project controls foundation as it moved from planning into execution.
Industry
Power & Energy
Headquarters
Australia
Challenges
Growing program complexity exposed gaps in cost, contracts and reporting discipline.
- Confusing budgets and financial reporting requiring rework of control accounts and structures
- Inefficient manual data exports into Snowflake with no cloud-to-cloud or API-based alternative
- Approval workflows and commitments lacking accuracy
- Limited contracts reporting capability, including a stalled Excel Reporting Generator (ERG) initiative
- Firewall issues quarantining commercial and technical emails, delaying documents and IT actions
- Project controls staff turnover disrupting knowledge continuity
Solution
Implemented Contruent Enterprise to support cost and contract governance across a complex, evolving program.
- Structured control account and project cost management
- Improved visibility for PMO, package controls, contracts and procurement stakeholders
- Workflow-based approvals and contract variation processes
- Reduced manual reporting effort
- Scalable platform to support the program’s transition into mature delivery phases
Results
The organization built a more structured, better-governed foundation for a multi-decade capital program.
- More structured cost and contract management
- Stronger governance across cost, contracts and approvals
- Improved reporting through the contracts register, with future data extraction and API options in progress
- Better workflow governance for contract variations and approvals
- Improved forecasting accuracy and reduced reporting time
“The organization has improved its ability to govern cost, contracts and approvals across a complex capital program, while laying the foundation for more efficient reporting and analytics as the program scales.”
