of generation and storage now sits in the national grid connection pipeline, a pipeline that grew 42 per cent in a single financial year
Technology built for Australia’s growing energy sector
Automation Consulting helps energy businesses connect systems, automate operations, build purpose-built software and put AI to work across projects, assets, field teams, customers and back-office operations.
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Australia’s energy system is scaling fast and getting harder to operate
More generation, storage, distributed assets and customer-side technology are entering Australia’s energy system. That growth creates opportunity, but it also creates more projects, assets, data, systems and operational complexity for the businesses behind it.
of small-customer complaints to energy retailers are about billing, the largest single category in the regulator’s quarterly reporting
rooftop solar installations now feed the national electricity market, and every one is a connection, a meter and a settlement record to keep straight
of renewables and storage connected to the grid in one record year. Every project behind that number carries its own cost tracking, commissioning evidence, asset data and compliance trail
More infrastructure creates more operational complexity.
As energy becomes more distributed, the businesses behind it have more assets to manage, more systems to connect and more information moving between projects, field teams, customers and finance. AEMO itself is progressing a national Consumer Energy Resources Data Exchange to support organisation-to-organisation data sharing as distributed energy becomes a larger part of the electricity system.
Source: AEMO
The opportunity isn’t just to build more energy infrastructure. It’s to build the digital operating environment that lets it scale.
Build the operating systems your energy business needs to scale.
Automation Consulting helps energy and utilities businesses bring those moving parts together. We connect existing platforms, automate manual workflows, build the software that is missing and create the data foundations needed for practical AI.
One connected view of operations
Bring information together across projects, assets, customers, finance and field operations.
More capacity without more administration
Automate repetitive coordination, reporting, data movement and processing.
Better visibility as you scale
Give leadership reliable operational information without waiting for manual reports.
Technology that can evolve with the market
Build integration, automation and custom systems around changing business models and requirements.
The goal isn’t another layer of technology. It’s an operating environment where project, asset, field, finance and customer information moves when it should, teams work from trusted data, and growth doesn’t create the same increase in administration.
Who We Work With Across The Energy Sector
The systems problem looks different at each end of the sector. These are the operating models we build for.
Generation & Renewables
Solar, wind and hydro operators running construction, commissioning and generation assets at once.
Battery Storage & Firming
Storage and firming businesses where dispatch, warranty and performance data decide the revenue.
EV Charging Networks
Charging operators scaling sites faster than their asset, billing and support processes can follow.
Energy Retail & Metering
Retailers and metering coordinators where billing accuracy and customer admin carry the margin.
Networks, Water & Gas
Distribution and utility businesses with large asset bases, field crews and regulated reporting.
Mining, Resources & Industrial Energy
Resource and industrial operators managing their own generation, consumption and energy contracts.
Our Energy & Utilities Capabilities
Built to remove friction where it actually lives: across systems, approvals, reporting, and the handoffs your team currently carries manually.
Asset & Maintenance Management
One register for generation assets, network plant and meters, with maintenance raised from runtime and condition data instead of a calendar reminder.
Asset RegisterProject Accounting & Job Costing
Live cost, committed spend and margin against every project and milestone, reported while the build can still be corrected.
Project MarginField Service & Crew Workflows
Jobs dispatched, completed and closed out on a phone, with asset, safety and compliance data captured once, in the field, by the person doing the work.
Field JobsMeter Data & Billing Automation
Interval and settlement data validated on arrival, exceptions routed to the right person, and invoices raised without a spreadsheet step in the middle.
Billing RunRecurring & Usage-Based Billing
Subscription, offtake, demand and usage charges billed correctly as tariffs, contracts and indexation change underneath them.
Tariffs & ContractsRegulatory, Safety & ESG Reporting
Safety, environmental, market and listed-entity reporting compiled from connected systems, with the audit trail already attached.
Compliance PackMulti-Entity Finance & Consolidation
Consolidation across entities, project vehicles and joint ventures, with intercompany, revenue recognition and month-end handled in the flow of work.
Group FinanceOperations & Market Dashboards
Generation, availability, cost and customer numbers in one live view, so operations, trading and finance argue from the same figures.
Live KPIsCustomer Operations & AI Support
Connections, moves, outage updates and billing enquiries answered and resolved automatically, with a clean handover to your team when a human should take it.
Customer OpsNot sure where to start? Tell us which part is hurting most, the project reporting or the billing run, and we will map the fastest fix.
Discuss your projectWe work with the platforms your business already runs on
We are platform-agnostic. Where an ERP is the right answer we implement one, and where it is not we connect and automate what you already have, including the SCADA, metering and field systems the ERP will never replace.
The leadership behind the work
Fabrice Jiew
Founder & CEOWho your leadership team deals with — accountable from first conversation to go-live.
Bac Dam
Co-founder & CTOOwns the build decisions — systems that hold up in production and run 24/7.
Michael Zajer
Delivery ManagerYour single point of contact while we build — owns scope, timelines, and comms.
Hebe Nguyen
Automation Strategy ConsultantMaps your processes and finds the automations worth building — before anything gets built.
Tell us what’s slowing you down
We’ll respond within 30 minutes and help you identify where automation could create the most value.
- Identify the workflows worth automating first
- Pinpoint the quickest payback
- Agree a clear next step
- 100% Client return rate
- 5.0 Rated on Google
- $2M+ Delivered project value
Hear it straight from
the leaders we work with
Since going live we’ve cut admin time by over 60%, reduced stock issues, sped up reporting, and improved guest response times. It paid for itself quicker than expected.
Their ability to translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable strategies tailored to each client’s needs is exceptional. Their consulting approach is both strategic and hands-on.
They took the time to understand how we operate, pinpointed areas that needed tightening up, and implemented practical solutions that have genuinely improved our turnaround times and overall clarity.
Automation Consulting has been excellent to work with. Their team demonstrates strong expertise, clear communication, and a commitment to delivering value. Highly recommended!
Common Questions
We map where asset, project, meter and customer data still move by hand: field completions typed up back at the depot, billing exceptions reconciled in spreadsheets, compliance packs rebuilt from scratch every cycle. Then we connect and automate those flows so the data is captured once and stays accurate everywhere it is used. Every engagement starts with a free diagnostic Sit-Down before we recommend anything.
The usual signals are month-end taking weeks, project costs arriving too late to act on, nobody able to see margin by site or by project without a manual rebuild, and asset or meter data living in files only one person understands. That does not always mean you need a bigger ERP. Often the faster answer is connecting what you already run and automating the reporting around it, and we will tell you plainly when that is the case.
Generation and renewables, battery storage and firming, EV charging networks, energy retail and metering, network, water and gas utilities, and industrial and resources operators running their own generation and energy contracts. The back-office problem is remarkably consistent across all of them: asset data, field work, billing and compliance that were never connected to each other.
We are platform-agnostic across Odoo, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and others, and the recommendation follows your operations rather than a vendor relationship. Around the ERP we work with Salesforce, Azure, AWS and the automation layer (Power Automate, n8n, UiPath, Make and Zapier), and just as importantly with the SCADA, metering, asset and field systems an ERP will never replace.
AI is only ever as good as the data underneath it, so the order matters: connect the systems, unify and clean the data, automate the repetitive flows, then apply AI where it genuinely earns its place, such as document handling, customer enquiries, forecasting support and exception triage. We will not pretend every problem in this sector needs AI. Most of what slows an energy business down is plumbing, and plumbing is fixable.
Usually not. Most energy and utilities stacks do not need replacing, they need connecting. We integrate what is already working and only recommend replacing a system when it is a genuine bottleneck. Either way you own everything we build, and we will tell you honestly which is which.
It depends on scope, which is why we scope first. A single integration or one automated step in the billing run usually lands within a few weeks. Larger programs are staged so operations are never interrupted: each stage goes live and starts paying for itself before the next one begins.
Security is designed in from the start, not patched on later. Least-privilege system access, secure credential handling, Australian data residency, full audit trails and clear data-handling agreements are standard practice, and we already work under exactly those constraints with government and other regulated-sector clients. See our security page for the full picture.
Every engagement starts with the free Sit-Down. From there, most work runs either as a fixed-scope build, priced and timelined before we start, or as an ongoing arrangement with our team embedded alongside yours. You own everything we build, and there are no lock-in contracts: if we are not delivering, you walk.
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