On 23 May 08, the National Environment Agency (NEA) organised an "Advanced Energy Efficiency Seminar" given by one of the world's leading innovators in energy, Mr Amory Lovins. Admission was free for this seminar. Energy efficiency has been recognised by organisations worldwide as a cost-effective solution to the challenges of climate change and rising energy prices. Companies are saving millions of dollars by being more energy efficient.
Speaker: Amory Lovins is the Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a leading institute in energy efficiency and a non-profit organisation in the USA. RMI shows businesses how to create competitive advantage and increase profit by doing what they do far more efficiently, typically with expanding returns to investment. Amory Lovins has advised industries in more than 50 countries for four decades, and his clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, BP, Chevron, Baxter, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, Accenture, Bank of America, Prudential, major real-estate developers and over 100 utilities. An $18-million utility experiment he steered saved 97% in energy use through an office-air-conditioning retrofit design, and he produced houses comfortable with no air conditioner at up to 46ºC yet costing less to build. The Wall Street Journal’s Centennial Issue named him among 39 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s. Newsweek called him “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers.” He has also been recognised as a Time Hero of the Environment as well as Hero of the Planet.
Date: Friday, 23 May 2008 (9.30am - 1.00pm)
Venue: SPRING Singapore Auditorium
2 Bukit Merah Central Singapore 159835
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Time
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Title and Synopsis
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Target Audience
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9.30-11.00am
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Advanced Energy Efficiency for Buildings
New ways of combining both new and old technologies into integrative designs can achieve very large savings — 3 to 4 times in existing big buildings and 8 to 10 times in new ones — with paybacks of a few years on retrofit and often at a lower capital cost in new projects, whilst improving comfort and performance. Achieving this requires the optimisation of the whole building for multiple benefits, not isolated components for single benefits. The required design skills are available but not commonly demanded nor rewarded. Successful implementation requires meticulous attention to detail across the whole value chain. The benefits in property value, human health and productivity, and competitive advantage make such adoption a strategic imperative. Presentation slides can be downloaded here: 
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Property owners, developers, financiers, architects, design professionals, M&E consultants, building and facilities managers, building owners and energy services companies
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11.00-11:30am
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Tea Break
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11.30am-1.00pm
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Advanced Energy Efficiency for Data Centres
Systematic, comprehensive design improvements can save most of the energy and capital cost in new data centres whilst improving uptime and reducing construction time. A 2003 industry workshop defined a roadmap that can achieve about 90% energy savings at lower capital cost, reducing the cooling-and-power overhead from about 70-150% to about 13% of server input energy. A more recent design reveals the potential to cut this overhead to only about 8 to 11% at even lower capital cost. Many of the measures are at least partially retrofittable into existing data centres. Presentation slides can be downloaded here:
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Analysts, CIOs, data center administrators, disaster recovery managers/specialists, facilities engineers, facilities management, IS VPs, IT managers, network managers, project managers, systems software managers, technical specialists, technology consultants, data center solutions providers, energy services companies
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Friday, 23 May 2008 (2.00 - 6.00pm)
Venue: MND Auditorium
5 Maxwell Road, MND Complex, Annex A, 2nd floor, Singapore 069110
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Time
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Title and Synopsis
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Target Audience
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2.00-4.00pm
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Advanced Energy Efficiency for Process Industry and Semiconductor Manufacturing
Recent redesigns of heavy process plants in diverse sectors have yielded energy savings around 40-90% with lower capital cost, or on retrofit, around 30-60% energy savings with 2 to 3 year paybacks and improved performance. Such surprising results come from integrative design that optimises whole systems for multiple benefits, not isolated components for single benefits. For example, one recent front-end chip-fab design yielded major energy and water savings with 30% lower capital cost, whilst another is expected to save two-thirds of energy and half the capital cost whilst eliminating all chillers. Presentation slides can be downloaded here:
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Power generation, refining, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor companies (designers, energy managers, facility directors, EHS managers, plant managers, facility managers, EHS engineers, process engineers), energy service companies
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4.00-4.30pm
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Tea Break
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4.30-6.00pm
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Next-Generation Electricity: The Emerging Negawatt and Micropower Revolutions
A sixth of the world's electricity and a third of added supplies now comes from "micropower" — combined-heat-and-power plus distributed renewables. "Negawatts" — electricity saved by more efficient or timely use — are probably of roughly comparable effect and cost even less. The technological shifts that have replaced computer centres with networked PCs and central telephone exchanges with distributed packet-switching are now coming to the power sector, and can capture more than 200 hidden economic benefits that typically increase the economic value of distributed resources by an order of magnitude. Surprisingly, even the variable types of renewables are turning out to require less storage or backup than is already installed to cope with the intermittency of large thermal stations. Presentation slides can be downloaded here:
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Power utility owners, power utility managers, utility analysts, utility marketers, utility engineers, electric generators, energy buyers, energy managers, energy service companies
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