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•  Introducing Greensense •  Resource Efficiency – let’s change •  Behavioural Change •  In Action: Subiaco Oval

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

INTRODUCING GREENSENSE � We provide three services:

– Climate change consulting – Sustainable event management – Technology for sustainability

� We are Perth based and Australian focused

� We are a preferred supplier of climate change consulting services to local government and work with some of Australia’s leading companies

“We help business & government to work towards a sustainable future and to respond to the challenges and the opportunities of climate change and the carbon-limited economy.”

We all know about resource scarcity… There is some action But is it enough? Is it fast enough? What can you do?

THE RESOURCE ISSUE

Cnr Pier & Wellington St 1893 First electric power plant produced

15kW – WA’s first streetlights

source: esaa, Clean Energy Council & AEMO

23% of Australia’s emissions are from energy demand in commercial and residential

buildings

source: esaa, Clean Energy Council & AEMO

HOW MUCH WAS YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL LAST MONTH?

WHY DID YOU PAY THAT MUCH �(OR LITTLE)?

SO, THE PROBLEM � Energy use is invisible for

most of us

� We don’t really understand it

� We have only the vaguest ideas about where and when we use energy

� And because of that we struggle to value and manage it

INTRODUCING � Self-consciously moving people in a direction that will make

their lives better

� A mechanism to promote desirable outcomes while respecting individual choices

� 1 Fun

� 2 The Stick

� 3 Compelled

� 4 Informed

THE NUDGE

SO WHAT�ABOUT�ENERGY?

““Providing direct feedback of energy use to users can generate 10-15% cost and

emissions savings” �Environment Change Institute, Oxford University

SO WHAT �DOES THAT�MEAN FOR US?

THINK ABOUT YOUR FACILITIES��  how can you engage more with building users? �  how can your building users be more informed? �  how can you make change fun? �  how can you compel people to change? �

WHAT IS YOUR NUDGE?�

GREENSENSE VIEW

Greensense View monitors your sustainability performance in real-time helping to conserve energy and water resources and to educate and engage building occupants.

Greensense View uses state-of-the-art wireless sensors, or your building management system, and can aggregate data across hundreds or even thousands of assets.

HOW IT WORKS

CASE STUDY�SUBIACO OVAL – WA Football Commission

THE OUTCOMES

�  Real-time data now in place for 50% of the facility �  Positive engagement with each tenant – through fun and competition

�  Identified opportunities for energy reduction �  Energy profile being used for tariff selection �  Base load and peak patterns being used to pro-

actively make changes �  Early initiatives identified

QUESTIONS?