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Chair: Deane Belfield, Director of Sustainability and Climate Change (HB Mann Judd), Managing Director of ECO2Sys, National Chair of the Board for the Society of Sustainability and Environmental Engineering, Queensland
Deane is a chartered professional engineer with Masters qualifications in Environmental Science and Business Administration. He has worked in the ‘sustainability’ industry since the mid for over 12 years, and whilst based in Australia, has also worked in Asia, USA and Europe. He held a senior management role with the PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Supply Chain Practice before becoming Director of their Sustainable Solutions Group.
During this time Deane has led many projects related to sustainability, strategy, green procurement, green buildings and infrastructure, sustainability ratings systems, climate change, greenhouse gas emission reduction, verification, trading and energy efficiency, across Asia-Pacific. He is a specialist in integration of carbon management and sustainability into core businesses and supply chains and has had experience since 1999 with market and financial products associated with carbon trading. He was also responsible for leading the development of the Victorian Government’s 5 star rating system for sustainable business, of which integrated carbon performance management is a core category.
Deane had lead international Kyoto compliant projects involving the assessment and creation of projects able to yield CERs as well as the voluntary carbon market (VCM).
In order to accelerate the diffusion of more sustainability oriented thinking, practices and carbon products in the corporate world, Deane has an extra-curricular role as a national leader with a global transformational change Not for Profit ‘Be The Change’, whose Awakening the Dreamer – Change the Dream symposium is proving to be a major catalyst for creating the transition to the new low carbon economy.
High Efficiency Point-Of-Use Distributed Energy Generation - An Affordable Carbon Reduction Solution
- Reducing “carbon footprint” in preparation for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
- Saving money today and mitigating the risk of future electricity price rise
- Increased security and reliability of energy supplies
- Corporate responsibility etc.
The review is based on the findings of recent feasibility work conducted for clients in the commercial and industrial sectors. The methods used include adoption of a multi-criteria approach to assess the merits of each option.
This paper considers the various thermal generation technologies available ranging from:
- Low temperature organic rankine cycle, and
- Conventional internal reciprocating gas engines, to
- High temperature fuel cell processes, and
- Solar thermal hybrid systems.
The paper concludes with some identified gaps and opportunities in the market, and suggests what action is required to promote the rapid implementation of “high efficiency point-of-use” energy systems.
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Bill Proudfoot, Energy Engineer, Mito Energy
Bill Proudfoot is an Energy Engineer with over 20 years project development experience, including senior roles with leading energy services companies. In addition to specialist skills in renewable and sustainable energy technologies, he has extensive experience of financial modeling, project implementation, and negotiating energy services agreements.
Bill was most recently in a technical executive role with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), a leading infrastructure engineering firm. Before PB, he was Managing Director of GE Energy partner company, Clarke Energy Australia Pty Ltd. Here he was responsible for business in Australasia and SE Asia, supplying gas and renewable generation solutions in the region. Bill’s experience in Europe includes development of energy services projects with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), a leading UK energy utility company.
Bill is also a guest lecturer for RMIT University’s Master of Engineering (Sustainable Energy). He serves on the Clean Energy Council’s Energy Efficiency Directorate, and served on Sustainability Victoria’s Distributed Generation panel.
Groundbreaking Solutions for District Heating and Cooling:
It is the intention of this paper to explore the potential for applying Geoexchange heating and cooling systems at the district scale. At the district or utility scale, Geoexchange offers a range of financial, energy and environmental benefits to the end user, the project developer and the utility company.
In the past decade there has been a significant increase in the use of Geoexchange for DHC throughout Europe and North America and even some installations in Australia.
Application of Geoexchange at the district scale provides a means of reducing the impact of their usual higher capital cost through financing options which can be supplied by a utility company, the building management company or an Energy Service Company (ESCO). These financing options can significantly reduce the costs of the system on the customer for both energy usage and maintenance while delivering a meaningful profit to the service provider.
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Yale Carden, Managing Director, GeoExchange Australia
Yale Carden is the Managing Director of GeoExchange Australia. He has a First Class Honours degree in Environmental Science and a Masters in Environmental Engineering. Yale has been working in the sustainability sector for over fifteen years and has spent the past five years working with geoexchange systems. He is a member and certified installer with the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA) and has advised on Geoexchange systems across the Asia Pacific.
Mini power stations for global markets
Ceramic Fuel Cells has developed a market entry product called “BlueGen”. Each BlueGen unit can cut carbon dioxide emissions by up to 75 percent compared to Victoria’s current brown coal generators. BlueGen also uses up to 95 percent less water than brown coal generators.
The BlueGen product has achieved electrical efficiency of 60 percent whilst exporting power to the grid. The product also recovers heat to provide hot water, increasing the units’ total efficiency to up to 85 percent. By contrast the efficiency of Victoria’s current brown coal power plants is about 25 percent.
In late 2009 Ceramic Fuel Cells began taking orders for BlueGen units from leading energy utilities and other foundation customers in Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan. From early 2010 BlueGen units will also be installed in demonstration sites with VicUrban in Melbourne and Energy Australia in Sydney. Ceramic Fuel Cells has appointed leading ‘green’ retailer NECO as our first Australian distributor of BlueGen.
Ceramic Fuel Cells has extensive R&D, testing and manufacturing facilities in Melbourne, Australia, and has built a plant in Bromborough, UK, to make high quality ceramic powders using the company’s proprietary technology. In October 2009 the Company officially opened its high volume manufacturing plant in Heinsberg, Germany, one of the first in the world for the volume production of solid oxide fuel cell stacks.
Ceramic Fuel Cells was formed in 1992 and has invested more than $240 million in developing its technology. All the Company’s intellectual property is developed in Australia and is wholly-owned. Today the company employs 100 people and is listed on the ASX and London’s AIM market (code: CFU).
Andrew’s presentation will consider the following:
- Market context – energy vs emissions squeeze
- Fuel cells for distributed generation
- Market drivers and policy responses – any lessons from Europe?
- CFCL’s Technology and Product
- Benefits
- Getting products into the market
Andrew Neilson, Group General Manager - Commercial, Ceramic Fuels Cells Ltd
Andrew Neilson is an experienced commercial executive, passionate about sustainability and clean technologies. Andrew is Group General Manager Commercial and Company Secretary for Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited. Andrew has practical experience in commercialising clean technology and intellectual property, formulating strategy and executing business plans, structuring and negotiating contracts with global partners, suppliers and customers, managing pre-revenue companies, raising equity, investor and public relations, corporate governance and company secretarial requirements. He is on the board of Advisors to Climate Alliance Limited and has also served as a Board Member of the Sustainable Living Foundation. He was formerly a commercial lawyer and is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
