Energy efficiency has been recognised by organizations 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.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) invited Mr Amory Lovins, one of the world's leading innovators in energy, to deliver a keynote address at a non-paying breakfast talk for CEOs:

Date: 22 May 2008
Time: 8.30 – 10.45 am
Venue: Taurus & Leo, Level 1, Marina Mandarin Hotel

Mr 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 organization 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. Mr 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, Lockheed Martin, Wal-Mart, and over 100 utilities. 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 magazine called him “one of the Western world’s most influential energy thinkers.” He has also been recognised by TIME Magazine as a Hero of the Environment as well as a Hero of the Planet.

110 CEOs and senior management from the public and private sectors attended the breakfast talk. The topic was “Advanced Energy Efficiency – Bigger Savings, Lower Cost, Better Results”. In his talk, Mr Lovins drew on his experience in more than US$30 billion worth of new and retrofit projects worldwide in 29 sectors. He had shown how optimising a whole factory for multiple benefits can achieve very large energy savings, at lower cost, and often achieve side benefits far more valuable than the energy savings themselves, such as reduced maintenance and longer equipment lifespan. After his presentation, there was a Q & A session in which there was enthusiastic participation from the audience.

The presentation slides of Mr Amory Lovins' talk can be downloaded here: