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Documents from the forum are available for download at the bottom of this page.
On 25 March 2003, the National Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Committee (NAEEEC) held its sixth annual stakeholder forum at the Duxton Hotel in Melbourne.
NAEEEC is a committee of Commonwealth, State, Territory and New Zealand government officials charged with promoting both the manufacture of energy efficient products by suppliers and the marketing of these products to consumers. Its stakeholders are companies and individuals with an interest in end-use product energy efficiency.
This sixth annual forum provided an opportunity for the NAEEEC to release its plans for the next year and inform stakeholders of achievements and developments. And importantly, the forum provides an opportunity for stakeholders to comment on that program and provides an opportunity for government officials to listen to ideas and concerns of the public and interested parties.
Almost 150 participants attended the Energy Efficiency Forum 2003 throughout the day representing industry, regulators, Commonwealth and State government agencies, testing authorities academia and consultants.
The format of the forum involved a keynote address by the Hon Theo Theophanous, Minister for Energy Industries & Resources, Victoria. The Minister's address was followed by four other keynote plenary speakers, leading then into four workshops to promote discussion and provide opportunities for participants to express their views on relevant issues. The final session captured and reviewed the outcomes of the day. All reports and presentations from the Forum are included below on this web page.
The workshops consisted of four topics:
The Forum was opened with addresses from key speakers. The first was a keynote address by the Hon Theo Theophanous, Minister for Energy Industries & Resources, Victoria. Mr Theophanous issued a wake up call on energy efficiency, saying that "Australia must make a quantum leap in its energy efficiency to remain competitive in an increasingly global economy". The continuing substantial rise in Australian energy consumption and the access to abundant and cheap energy were issues for attention, as energy waste and inefficiency will eventually lead to losses in productivity, making Australia less competitive in world markets. Mr Theophanous went on to announce his support for development of a new National Framework for Energy Efficiency, with Victoria working with all Australian jurisdictions to achieve a "sea change" in Australian energy efficiency practices. He also confirmed the Victorian government's support for the expansion of the NAEEEP program of mandatory Minimum Energy Performance Standards.
The second speaker was Mr David Young, CEO of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria. He provided the forum with the results of recent work to establish a national framework on energy efficiency in Australia. He showed that energy consumption in Australia is continuing to grow and that key energy efficiency indicators show a slight deterioration in recent years, once structural changes in the economy are taken into account. He showed that the savings that could be achieved under a high efficiency potential scenario exceeds 50% in many market segments. Even under the low efficiency potential scenario, investments are expected to have an average 4 year payback resulting in a 15% reduction in energy, an 11% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions and an increase in GDP and employment over the period to 2012.
The third speaker was Dr Stephen Wiel, head of the Energy Analysis Department, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, California, which provides expert technical advice to the US Department of Energy. He provided detail of the origin and development of the US regulatory program for MEPS and outlined the analytical and economic framework for the development of the program in the USA. He showed that the techniques being used were becoming more sophisticated and that the impact of MEPS was both significant in greenhouse and energy terms and cost effective. Dr Wiel compared in some detail the Australian energy efficiency program to other similar national schemes operating elsewhere in the world. He revealed that Australia's program is among the world's best in comparative coverage, stringency of standards, and effectiveness. He also provided an outline of the activities of the Collaborative Standards and Labelling Program (CLASP), which provides assistance to developing and transitional counties in the development and implementation of local and regional labelling and MEPS schemes.
The fourth speaker in the Plenary Session was Dr Tony Marker, Manager, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Energy Group, Australian Greenhouse Office. Dr Marker presented an address on behalf of Mr Gerry Morvell, Executive Manager of the Sustainable Energy Group who was unable to attend at the last minute. This presentation was about the Commonwealth processes operating in the energy efficiency arena and ongoing efforts to expand and enhance the National Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Program. Dr Marker also presented the results of a just completed review of the combined impacts of the program which revealed that the effectiveness of energy efficiency measures continued to rise in terms of energy savings nationally, associated greenhouse gas emission reductions, while at the same time offering outstanding cost effectiveness.
The final speaker was Ms Jennifer McNeill, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Ms McNeill talked about the federal processes operating to support compliance of energy efficiency regulations, and, in particular minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) in Australia. She described how ACCC policy follows an 'enforcement pyramid' which features a solid foundation of educational and awareness raising activity, a middle ground of cooperative compliance and agreements with industry, finally reaching, in a smaller number of cases, punitive measures including possible prosecution.
The publications from the forum are available for downloading as PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view these files. To download and save the file on your local computer right click the link and "Save Target As". If you are unable to access this document, please contact The Australian Greenhouse Office to organise a suitable alternative format.
Forum program and summary
2003 Forum Program (2003-forumprogram.pdf - 148 kB) NAEEEP Forum 2003 - Summary of Proceedings (2003-forumsummary.pdf - 170 kB)Publications distributed to forum attendees (available from the NAEEEC electronic library - follow the links below):
Plenary Session Presentations
Media Release - 25 March 2003
(2003-mediarelease.pdf - 224 kb) Development of a National Framework for Energy Efficiency
(2003plenary-young.pdf - 568 kb) An Overview of the U.S. Energy Efficiency Standard - Setting
Program and Some International Ramifications (2003plenary-weil.pdf - 568 kb) Well, how does Australia really compare?
(2003plenary-morvell.pdf - 818 kb) (presented by Dr Tony Marker, AGO) Energy Performance Standards and the Trade Practices Act
(2003plenary-mcneill.pdf - 185 kb)Workshop Presentations
Compliance (2003-workshop1.pdf - 145 kb)
Energy Performance Standards and the Trade Practices Act (2003w1-mcneill.pdf - 156 kb) Victorian Regulation and Infringement Notices (2003w1-driver.pdf - 125 kb) Compliance - Electrical Equipment Safety and Performance in Queensland (2003w1faulks.pdf - 103
kb) Standards Development 2002 (2003w1-harrington.pdf - 233 kb) NAEEEC verification and compliance program (2003w1-holt.pdf - 130 kb) National Appliance Labelling Strategy (2003-workshop2.pdf - 118 kb)
Making Labels Work in Resource Efficiency Programs
(2003w2-wilkenfeld.pdf - 128 kb) Cooperative efforts to enhance the gas MEPS & labelling scheme (2003w2-mcnicol.pdf - 76 kb) Appliance Endorsement Award (2003w2-oneill.pdf - 168 kb) Scope of Label Review (2003w2-marker.pdf - 656 kb) Standby Power (2003-workshop3.pdf - 140 kb)
Standby Overview (2003w3-edlington.pdf - 304 kb) Change for the Better With Energy Star (2003w3-abelson.pdf - 417 kb) Standby Calendar for 2003 (2003w3-ellis.pdf - 157 kb) Appliance Standby Power Consumption - Store Survey 2003 (2003w3-kleverlaan.pdf - 225 kb) IEC Activities on Standby (2003w3-harrington.pdf - 117 kb) Australia's Energy Efficiency Program for Air Conditioners
(2003-workshop4.pdf - 125 kb)
Airconditioners - MEPS and Voluntary Measures (2003w4-ryan.pdf - 236 kb) MEPS - Manufacturers Eradicating Poor Standards (2003w4-anderson.pdf - 90 kb) Achieving Best Practice (2003w4-pelvin.pdf - 429 kb) Arc-tick Accrediation Scheme (2003w4-woodhouse.pdf - 626 kb) Airconditioner testing and standards development (2003w4-holt.pdf - 174 kb)This page last modified 27 June 2007
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