Post by Anthony Jefferson, MBA, Dipl. EET

One aspect that stood out to me from Wilfried Breuer's interview wasn't digitalisation itself, but what it ultimately enables: better utilisation of existing infrastructure. As electrification accelerates, the industry faces a growing challenge. Building new capacity remains essential, but capacity creation is increasingly constrained by manufacturing lead times, capital availability, supply chains, planning processes, and skilled resources. That raises an important question: How do we extract more value from the assets we already have? This is where the industry's shift towards monitoring, analytics, and asset performance management becomes interesting. The opportunity isn't simply to sell more monitoring systems. The opportunity is to become a trusted intelligence layer for an increasingly electrified and capacity-constrained infrastructure system. Better visibility of asset condition can support: • Higher utilisation of existing assets • More informed maintenance decisions • Reduced operational risk • Deferred capital expenditure • Improved network resilience As power systems become more complex, the challenge is no longer just adding capacity. It is understanding where capacity exists, how much can be safely utilised, and what is limiting its use. The future value may lie less in the equipment itself and more in the intelligence that helps unlock the full capability of the infrastructure already in service.