Welcome to the Energy Management Association of New Zealand

WELCOME TO THE ENERGY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION'S WEBSITE

Energy Management is critical to our future economic prosperity and environmental wellbeing. The Energy Management Association of New Zealand (Inc.) works to ensure that a continuing high standard of expertise in energy management and energy efficiency is available to industry, commerce and the public of New Zealand.

EMANZ Members can login to the members only area here.

Please take the opportunity to look at the range of information provided by the Association on this site, and contact us with any suggestions you may have.

RECENT ADDITIONS

A short opinion piece on the current media commentary on smart metering by EMANZ Executive Officer, Ewan Gebbie

EMANZ MONTHLY TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

Monthly Technical Presentations
The EMANZ Monthly Technical Presentations are for the benefit of members and others concerned about achieiving the wise use of energy. Presentations aim to share knowledge and understanding on a range of technical energy issues. Attendance by Members is free. Non Members attending at a video venue will be required to pay a fee of $20 (incl. gst). The presentations are via video conference between the EECA offices in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. A teleconfeence link is also available of attendees outside these centres (information on the contact teleconference number will be made available in the promotion for the event).
Date	Speaker and Topic	Links
Tues, 7th April	No Technical meeting
Tues, 5th May	Liz Root, Technical Manager, The New Zealand Green Building Council, (confirmed) [EECA Auckland office]	Click here for more information or email Administration Support link to NZGBC website
Tues, 2nd June	Stephen Broadbent, Rockwell Automation, (confirmed) [EECA Auckland office] Cancelled (to be rescheduled later in the year)	link to RA website
Tues, 7th July	Bryan King, Lighting Management Consulting Ltd (confirmed) [EECA Auckland office] EC "Efficient Street Lighting" program "Lighting for Roads and Public Spaces - The New Energy Agenda".
Tues, 4th August	Mike Fairfield, Strategic Partnerships Manager ECCA (confirmed) [EECA Wellington office] Update on EECA's residential EE programme. EECA's longer term residential energy strategy and on achievements for NZEECS residential programme.	click here for Energywise Home Grants info on EECA website
NEW Fri, 14th August	Joe Trimboli, EcoBright T5 adaptors for linear fluorescent lighting - striving for best practice in an emerging market	link to EcoBright website
Tues, 1st Sept	Jorg Mager, Team Manager, HERS EECA (tbc) Update on HERS and HERS assessments in NZ (confirmed) [EECA Wellington office]	click here for HERS info on EECA website
If you would like to give a presentation at the EMANZ Monthly Technical Presentations please contact the Executive Officer. Presentations start at 4.00pm and typically last 30 minutes with some time for questions at the end. Presentations are made available after the event on the EMANZ web-site in the Member's Only Area. A sign-in sheet will be circulated on arrival at each event centre so for administrative purposes please ensure you acknowledge your attendance. .

EMANZ LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT REGIONAL FORUMS

EMANZ is pleased to announce that the Auckland forum has now been run and was a great success - thank you to all those who were involved.

Presentations and feedback notes from this forum are available on the Local Government Energy Focus Group section in the EMANZ Members only area. EMANZ Members can login in here.

If you are a non-member and attended the forum please contact the Executive Officer for a copy of the notes and presentations

We are currently looking at running similar events in other parts of the country and would welcome input to that process.

Executive Officer

EMANZ Training

EMANZ is currently reviewing its training strategy for the next three years and would like to hear from you. We expect to complete the strategy in August this year and from there we will be rolling out courses accordingly.

In the meantime:

What training needs are you looking for that you aren't getting?
What training have you had that you'd like to provide us with your comments on?

Please email admin@emanz.org.nz with your suggestions.

Model Energy Reports

By clicking on the links below you will find Model Audits for the following audit types:

Level 1
Level 1 Multi-site
Level 2 Industrial
Level 2 Commercial - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

Check these out. Any comments, please let us know by emailing admin@emanz.org.nz .

Energy Management Resources

Emprove Manual - Part One

Emprove Manual - Part Two

Energy Audit Grant Scheme

The following Audit scheme is currently structured as follows:

Funding for up to 50% of the cost of an energy audit to a maximum of $50,000
Up to 100% of the cost of a scoping study to a maximum $10,000
Requirement to identify the potential for demand response and co-generation opportunities.
Minimum energy spend of $100,000 per annum to be eligible for grant funding
Design audits available for organisations with a building area over 1000m2

Full details about the changes are included in the attached Energy Audit Grants information sheet and application form or via www.emprove.org.nz/over500/grant.asp

Grants are available for any business wishing to improve their energy consumption with energy audits, adopting renewable energy initiatives and/or utilizing advances in technology.

Energy Intensive Business Grants

Energy Audits

Wood Residue Grants