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Chair: Rob Murray-Leach, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Efficiency Council
Rob Murray-Leach is the CEO of the Energy Efficiency Council, the peak body for commercial and industrial energy efficiency. The Council brings together the wealth of experience of its members to develop policies, tools and standards that grow the market for energy efficiency products and services. Energy efficiency is one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, with HSBC estimating that global revenue from energy efficiency more than doubled between 2008 and 2009 to reach $164 billion.
Rob was an author on the Garnaut Climate Change Review and sat on the advisory board of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency. He has worked for over a decade in climate change, energy and transport and contributed to several award-winning books on sustainability.
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Identifying energy efficiency opportunities: What works and what doesn’t
Tom Cawley from Balance Energy will discuss the rigorous and systematic approach and will use real world examples to demonstrate the high value savings that it consistently identifies (and have been realised). Tom will also discuss the particular importance of identifying high value, low capital "early wins", that aren't just "low hanging fruit", because they are difficult to find.
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Tom Cawley, Managing Director, Balance Energy
Tom Cawley started working in industrial energy efficiency 11 years ago and has always maintained a focus upon delivering practical high value opportunities. Tom founded Balance Energy in 2002 and today the company is identifying and implementing energy efficiency opportunities for some of Australia's leading companies in a broad range of heavy industries.
Tom is focused upon realising energy efficiency opportunities and Balance Energy has an impressive track record of many millions saved by its clients through energy efficiency measures it has either identified as a consultant or implemented as an engineering company. Tom is a board member of the Energy Efficiency Council, Australia's peak energy efficiency industry body.
Industrial energy efficiency - a case study (clients perspective)
Robert D’Arcy of Sugar Australia will address the following areas during his presentation:
- What is Sugar Australia?
- Processes used:
- To identify opportunities
Robert D’Arcy, Project Manager Energy and Water Efficiency, Sugar Australia
Robert had 20 years’ experience in a variety of operational roles in the plastic processing industry before moving in to a senior consulting in resource efficiency. He has worked in a wide range of industries during this time, from the mining industry through manufacturing and the food processing industry. Working with companies such as Rio Tinto, Oz minerals, Origin upstream, Boral, Downer Edi Works, Ford, Nylex and Ingham.
He now works for Sugar Australia as a Project Manager for Energy and Water, assisting to identify, saving and then implementing these projects so that the saving are realised and sustained.
He has run programmes in Lean Manufacturing and Cleaner Production. These programmes resulted in cultural change and cost saving for the businesses where these programmes were adopted. Cleaner production programmes resulted in resource savings and positive environmental and economic outcomes. Robert has also been involved in developing ISO 14000 Environmental management systems.
The Australian Government's Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO) program - key results to date
The EEO program captures 45 per cent of Australian energy end use. In 2009, results reported by EEO corporations showed that corporations identified opportunities which could save over 110 petajoules of energy, with over 60PJ of savings being adopted.
This presentation will focus on how large businesses are achieving significant savings and enhanced productivity through energy efficiency. The presentation will highlight where opportunities are being identified. It will also outline important information tools which the Department has developed to support technical personnel to investigate opportunities and secure support for implementation by articulating the business case for energy efficiency.
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Albert Dessi, Assistant Manager, Technical Advice and Projects, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
Albert Dessi is currently managing Technical Capacity Building for the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program and has been with the program since mid 2008. He has previously worked in the federal Industry and Innovation Departments and in economic research. Albert has an honours degree in Engineering and a degree and Graduate Diploma in Economics, all from ANU.
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