Asset Investment Planning for Unareti

Unareti faces a simple but critical question: how do we make defensible asset investment decisions across our asset base? 

With increasing regulatory scrutiny and growing pressure on budgets and performance, it is no longer enough to rely on isolated asset assessments or past practices. Engineering, Planning, and Grid Development need a shared and defensible way to determine which assets require intervention. IFS Copperleaf supports asset intensive utilities like Unareti, by transforming asset health and risk into a transparent and repeatable decision framework that helps leaders compare options, justify decisions, and confidently stand behind their investment approach. Building on our recent conversations, the sections below outline the value drivers that guide how investment decisions are prioritised and justified with IFS Copperleaf.

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Regulatory Confidence Aligned with ARERA Expectations 

Meeting ARERA expectations requires more than acknowledging asset risk — it requires showing how it consistently drives investment decisions  across the network, year after year. Differences in assumptions or local practices make it difficult to present a single, defensible investment logic. 

With IFS Copperleaf, Unareti can use a single, standardised approach to assess what could fail, how serious the impact would be, and what should be addressed first. This creates a transparent and auditable line of sight from asset data to risk ranking and capital allocation decisions. The consistency of this approach strengthens the credibility of the investment logic and makes decisions easier to explain and defend.

The outcome is a regulator-ready view of asset risk that reflects how investment decisions are actually made, supporting clearer dialogue with ARERA and increased confidence in UNARETI’s long-term investment plan.

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Controlling Network Risk Through Coordinated Investment Decisions 

IFS Copperleaf helps UNARETI understand where asset condition is creating risk and where investment will have the greatest impact. Asset condition, risk impact, and intervention timing are assessed consistently across the network, creating a clear and comparable view of priorities.

This network-wide visibility ensures funding, resources, and outage windows are focused on the assets where declining health poses the greatest risk, rather than addressing assets in isolation.

The outcome is clearer investment prioritisation, stronger control of network risk, and capital planning decisions that are easy to explain at executive and regulatory level.

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Clear Justification of CAPEX Investment Decisions 

Across the asset base, UNARETI must continuously decide when to intervene and whether capital or operational investment delivers the best outcome. These decisions become difficult when risk, cost, and timing are assessed in isolation. 

IFS Copperleaf connects asset health and risk directly to investment options, allowing different interventions to be compared using a common decision framework. This makes it easier to understand the value of acting now versus later, and to clearly justify repair, refurbishment, or replacement choices. Decisions are no longer driven by age or convention, but by their impact on risk and long term value. 

Utilities operating under similar regulatory and investment pressures are already working with IFS Copperleaf.

In this interview, Società Gasdotti Italia shares why they chose IFS Copperleaf and how they are embedding risk and value into their investment planning.

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