From the Editor Welcome I Get in touch If you know of interesting case studies or ideas that push for asset management advancement, please get in touch to contribute. As always, we will consider any submission with asset management at its heart. Email josh.ellicock@theIAM.org n this issue of Assets we take a closer look at the energy sector and some of the recent, topical challenges it faces with opinions and thought-leadership articles from a variety of different areas and organisations. We also reveal the winners of the Asset Management Excellence Awards, which were held on 17 October at the Hilton London Bankside. This attracted more than 150 attendees and showcased the tremendous work being done by our members across the world. It also marked the introduction of our new IAM Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Chapter. In our lead feature, Chris Wood and Stewart Whyte from National Grid talk us through the various challenges facing the energy sector around the decarbonisation of our energy network, the post-pandemic demand for energy, and the conflict in Ukraine. They discuss the urgent need for capital investment into building new assets and renewing infrastructure to repurpose networks for hydrogen as a fuel and the new and challenging asset management dilemmas this poses. Meanwhile, we take a deep dive into how E.ON manages its safety critical devices to ensure uninterrupted operations and some of the common pitfalls experienced when it comes to achieving compliance with regulatory standards. In one of our opinion pieces, Iryna Nykoriak a student from the Taras Shevchencko Kyiv National University in Ukraine describes how the country is managing to keep its electricity transmission lines operational during the Russian invasion. Ukrenergo, the electricity transmission system operator owned by the Ukrainian government, is having to deal with a multitude of threats. Not only on the ground missile attacks on key infrastructure but also the 146 million cyber attacks (in July alone) on its IT infrastructure, the majority of which are believed to originate from Russia or Russian-occupied territories. We also talk to Georgia Smart, asset management leader at UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), about her career journey. She gives us an insight into cutting-edge technology being developed at UKAEA, and the whole world of support facilities and buildings that need to be operated and maintained to enable this exciting mission of finding a viable fusion energy solution. David Jarvis and Kamal Nandha from PA Consulting provide their thoughts on the changing context in the transport and utilities sector brought about by the digital revolution. They make a call to action for asset managers to play an even more pivotal role in promoting digital solutions to generate efficiencies and effectiveness in the control of our assets and our decision-making. Adam Green takes us along on his journey to work and discusses the need to start approaching problems holistically and not transactionally. He feels that to achieve this we need to begin to look at functions across industries to provide better alignment and the ability to address real problems on the biggest scale and not just their constituent parts. And finally, Ger Carton from PlantQuest, being no stranger to the challenges and opportunities in digitising brownfield facilities, shares his tips.