Customer focus and opportunities highlighted by Awards winners
29 Aug 2024The winners of the 2024 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards were Contact, Counties Energy, Fonterra, Genesis, Hiringa Energy, HWR Hydrogen, Kāinga Ora, Mercury and Powerco. The 14th annual awards, held at the Cordis Auckland last night, saw over 680 guests celebrate excellence across 10 categories.
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Tonight is the night!
28 Aug 2024We look forward to welcoming you to the Great Room at the Cordis, Auckland for the 2024 New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards. Doors open at 6.20pm with the ceremony beginning at 7pm.
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AWARDS FINALIST: PowerNet – Leading decarbonisation and electrification efforts in the south
27 Aug 2024PowerNet's Partners in Decarbonisation programme has helped Southland industry and the region's energy providers develop plans to manage the transition to cleaner fuels over the coming decade. The work, begun in 2021, has underpinned a pipeline of six electrification projects across a range of sectors which, by the end of next year, will have reduced annual emissions by more than 112,000 tonnes a year.
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AWARDS FINALIST: Tim Edmonds – Simply Energy
26 Aug 2024Tim Edmonds joined Simply Energy as the commercial customer connections lead in 2021. Less than a year later - having identified that engineering decisions were regularly overlooking opportunities within the market that could lower costs, accelerate electrification, and facilitate earlier emissions reductions - he set up a team to turn these opportunities into business services.
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AWARDS FINALIST: Daniel Cunningham – Lodestone Energy
23 Aug 2024Daniel Cunningham, Lodestone Energy's general manager for development, has played a key role in the company's success in building utility-scale solar generation. Moving from Canada at the age of 29, where he had led the development of the C$1 billion Travers solar project, in 2020 Cunningham joined forces with stepfather Gary Holden and capital partners Guy and Sue Haddleton and started Lodestone.
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AWARDS FINALIST: Northpower – A focus on workplace well-being
22 Aug 2024Northpower says its approach to wellness has evolved over the past five years, from ad-hoc and reactive physical health initiatives to a more comprehensive, holistic approach. In 2020 it established a kaitiaki peer support network and the Wāhine Toa women's network to provide on-the-ground support across the business and to complement the service provided by Raise Mental Health, its external assistance provider. Since 2021, the firm has worked harder at understanding psycho-social hazards in the workplace.
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AWARDS FINALIST: Fonterra – Waitoa Biomass Boiler Project
15 Aug 2024Fonterra says replacing an existing coal boiler with a biomass unit at its Waitoa plant has halved the site's coal use and will reduce the group's emissions by almost 3 per cent. Earthworks for Project Kahikatea began in August 2022 and the new 30 MW boiler was commissioned late last year. The $90 million investment achieved its business case in the first year of operation, and the project will set the delivery standard for other energy projects in terms of systems and processes, safety management and project culture.
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AWARDS FINALIST: OMV – Driving down operational emissions
14 Aug 2024OMV is on a company-wide drive to reduce emissions in all areas of its operations. It aims to cut global oil and gas production by 20 per cent by 2030 and cease production for energy use completely by 2050. It will also leverage its assets and expertise to expand into geothermal, carbon capture and storage and solar and wind activities. In New Zealand, OMV is focused on enabling that transition while driving down emissions from the energy assets it operates.
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AWARDS FINALIST: PowerNet – Innovating ICP billing management - compliance made easy
13 Aug 2024The ARC software platform developed by PowerNet and Digital Stock is simplifying Installation Control Point (ICP) management and reducing compliance risks for the handful of other electricity distributors already using the system. PowerNet initially faced significant challenges in managing compliance around ICP billing. Issues included handling connections, disconnections, accessing historical demand information from the Electricity Authority registry/hub and calculating line charges and billing for customers across multiple bespoke databases.
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AWARDS FINALIST: Contact – Skin health programme saving lives
9 Aug 2024Contact Energy's skin health programme is saving lives making a difference in the way its employees approach skin-cancer prevention. Originally focused on outdoor workers, the programme expanded in 2022 to include all 1200 staff members after a routine check revealed an office worker's melanoma, highlighting the risk everyone faced, regardless of where they worked.
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