Greening the Industry James Tinslay, CEO NECA

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Greening the IndustryJames Tinslay, CEO NECA

• Presentation for The Electrical Industry Leaders
  Forum
• Sydney, 21May 2009

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Greening the Industry

• Training and other considerations
• Introduction
• Current Landscape
• The Issues Opportunities and Challenges
• EcoSmart Electricians A NECA Initiative
• Compulsory Green Training
• Questions and Suggestions

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Introduction

• Terms such as green environmental and
  eco-friendly are widely used. Some issues
• High level Ozone depletion remedies
• International carbon reduction strategies does
  our 1 really matter?!
• Energy input into building and construction
  materials
• Net versus gross feed in tariffs for alternative
  energy sources
• Equipment and installation energy efficiency
  measures NECAs EcoSmart Electricians
• Time of use, or smart, metering
• Retrofitting of buildings to increase energy
  efficiency Rudds multi-billion dollar
  homeowner insulation program
• There are many more!

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Current Landscape

• Huge range of private and government funded
  programs relating to the industry
• Green Plumbers
• Eco Plumbers
• Green Electricians
• Green Loans
• EcoSmart Electricians
• EcoSmart Fire, EcoSmart Homes, EcoSmart
  Assessors, EcoSmart Organic Pesticides
• Turning a dollar is a large driver!

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Current Landscape

• Diverse range of issues bundled into Green
  category for our industry including
• Phase out of Incandescent Lamps and energy
  efficient lighting
• Solar Panel Rebates
• Green Loan Assessor Program
• Building Code of Australia and impact on
  installation techniques
• Alternatives to PVC in construction (and is PVC
  really an energy guzzler?)
• Data Centres or Information Transport Systems

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Current Landscape

• Trends in Electrical Appliance Energy by Type -
  Standby

Standby Power Energy Consumption (not TVs) 1994
Anticipated Standby Power Energy Consumption
(excl TVs) 2020
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Current Landscape

• Trends in Electrical Appliance Energy by Type -
  TV

Energy Consumption for TVs 2000
Anticipated Energy Consumption for TVs 2020
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The Issues Opportunities and Challenges

• Broad spectrum of areas for consideration
• Carbon Emissions Vs Energy Efficiency
• National Broadband Network and associated C02
  emissions again Smart metering
• Alternate sources of power
• Solar, Wind, Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Pricing of Energy
• Client control of power
• Energy efficient equipment
• Smart metering etc

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The Issues Opportunities and Challenges

• Data Centres
• Information Transport Systems (ITS)
• Smaller faster higher power consumption and
  higher heat output
• ITS carbon footprint is equal to that of aviation
  industry
• Little publicity of impact on environment until
  recently
• Green star efficiency ratings for individual
  items used in ITS environments
• PVC Cables

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The Issues Opportunities and Challenges

• Data Centres continued
• Sustainable manufacturing techniques
• Low environmental impact
• Efficient use of power
• End of life sustainability waste reduction
• Comparison of power consumed by entire room
  including lighting and cooling and the amount of
  power required for the devices themselves to
  process information.

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The Issues - Opportunities and Challenges

• Energy input into buildings
• Electrical Contractors responsibility
• Lighting
• Energy Management
• Pricing client decision

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The Issues - Opportunities and Challenges

• Nuclear Generation The option of greening
  Australia with nuclear power
• Enough black coal for 200 years and brown coal
  for 800 years at current consumption
• 24 of the worlds uranium resources
• 51 years since the first Australian reactor
• No nuclear generators currently, planned or
  proposed

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NUCLEAR REACTORS 2009
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The Issues - Opportunities and Challenges

• Nuclear Generation The UK ?
• Nuclear Energy is at the heart of their response
  to low carbon emissions
• Gordon Brown, British PM
• Determined long term action to reduce carbon
  emissions using nuclear power as a tried and
  trusted technology has provided the UK with
  secure supplies of a safe, low carbon electricity
  for half a century

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The Issues - Opportunities and Challenges

• Nuclear Generation Australia ?
• Australias member of the International Nuclear
  Energy Academy
• (it would be) environmental vandalism.. for
  Australia to reject domestic nuclear power
• Nuclear Power will assist Australia
• In implementing a low carbon nation
• Provide certainty of power
• Stimulate infrastructure construction

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EcoSmart Electricians
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• The Background
• Initial Research Attitude to green issues A
  changing paradigm
• Green most definitely a current affair and is
  becoming more prominent in everyones lives.

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• Old (receding) New (emerging)
• green paradigm green paradigm

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• Ignorant No understanding, concern or action
• Cynic Understanding but no concern or action
• Ostrich Concern but no understanding or action
• Apathy Concern and understanding but no action
• Sheep No concern or understanding, but action
  anyway.
• Copycat Concern, no understanding, action anyway
• Activist Concern, understanding and action

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UNCONCERNED
PROACTIVE GREEN
AWARE
Unconcerned 23
Concerned 77
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• How it began
• Sustainability Victoria in conjunction with NECA
  Victoria
• Pilot program in NSW and Victoria with input from
  Schneider, Pierlite and others
• Rigorous feedback from participants followed by
  course review

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• How it has evolved
• National Rollout
• Online blended learning program in partnership
  with DEWHA
• Further input into course refinement from DEWHA,
  LCA, trainers and industry partners

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• Next Steps
• More comprehensive on-line courses, resources and
  assessments
• A Phase 2 extended EcoSmart Electricians course
  (notionally 200 hours) for specialists

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• EcoSmart Electrician Accreditation
• Use of EcoSmart Electrician logo restricted to
  those businesses that take up accreditation
• Integral marketing tool for contractors who want
  to differentiate their services
• Accredited contractors can work closely with
  suppliers to provide a specialised service

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Comment on Compulsory Green Training for
Electricians My Opinion!

• Is it Possible?
• Yes if the regulators support it, especially with
  new COAG national licensing scheme.
• Is it Necessary?
• Yes and no.
• Yes because it would be nice
• No because the majority of electricians are
  employed in the construction industry as
  employees who install to specifications.

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Comment on Compulsory Green Training for
Electricians My Opinion!

• Would it be Supported?
• By Government - No
• By Contractors Largely no
• By NECA Probably no
• I would argue compulsory CPD on electrical safety
  would be more important to manage both workplace
  and public risk.
• Compulsory retraining suggests vast expense and
  increased burden on employers
• Green training within apprenticeships would seem
  a more sensible solution.

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Compulsory Retraining?
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• Questions

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• Thank You