Battery Storage Expansion Western Power is actively expanding community battery storage, commissioning five systems in Perth suburbs in 2025 and planning 18 new systems with a total of 6.6 MW in WA. They also received government funding for these batteries under the Community Batteries for Household Solar program, signaling a strong policy-driven demand. This creates sales opportunities for turnkey energy storage hardware and services, battery management software, integration with existing SCADA and energy markets, and ongoing operation and maintenance contracts.

Digital Twin Platform Western Power has signed on to deploy a 3D digital twin platform across the transmission network via Pointerra, indicating a strategic shift toward digital engineering and asset resilience. With Snowflake as part of their data stack and a focus on performance optimization, there is opportunity to offer data integration, analytics, and digital twin consulting, as well as hardware sensors, IoT integration, and ongoing platform support for grid optimization and predictive maintenance.

Strategic Partnerships Western Power is expanding facilities internationally including Coogee NSW, Hapcheon Korea, and has partnerships with local governments such as City of Vincent and City of Stirling. The international activity plus potential floating solar projects create business opportunities in EPC, solar plus storage integration, remote monitoring, and cross border procurement of grid modernization solutions and enabling technologies.

Analytics & Data Platforms The company relies on modern software and data tools including Snowflake, Atlassian, Optimizely, and PWA plus UNIX and scripting. This signals readiness for advanced analytics, cloud data platforms, and integration projects; sales opportunities include data engineering, cloud migration services, cybersecurity hardening, and software ecosystem integration across asset management, project management, and field operations.

Workforce Training Western Power emphasizes training and development of staff and safety, indicating a built in demand for workforce training platforms, e learning, safety compliance, and integrated LMS. There is also governance level leadership change such as appointment of deputy chair Michael Barnes, suggesting opportunities to engage at governance level for long term partnerships in infrastructure modernization and workforce transformation.