EMCa consults to energy market organisations, energy utilities, energy regulators and related parts of government
Principle Consultant – Ignatius is an energy market practitioner with over 20 years’ experience covering the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), Western Australia’s Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM), and the North West Interconnected System of Western Australia (NWIS). He is well-versed on energy market design, generation business operations, market policy and regulatory matters, energy commercial negotiations, energy trading and energy procurement.
Ignatius started his career in the energy sector as an electrical engineer. Since then, he has undertaken various roles in the energy industry including those in energy trading, strategy analysis, financial modelling, energy procurement and policy and regulatory advice.
Some of his previous key roles includes: commercial and regulatory advisor to the CEO at Bluewaters Power (a JV of Sumitomo and Kansai Electric), Senior Advisor at the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), Assistant Director (Electricity Market Surveillance) at the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA), energy procurement specialist at the Fortescue Metals Group and energy trader and strategy analyst at various organisations in the NEM and WEM.
Ignatius has authored a number of high impact submissions and policy papers in the WEM and the NEM, through which he has played key roles in shaping the energy policies in these markets.
EMCa assisted TNB with preparation and justification of its capital and operational expenditure forecasts (and supporting narratives), WACC, RAB, Incentive Scheme parameters and targets, and regulatory accounting methods including regulatory depreciation and RAB roll-forward. The advice encompasses transmission and distribution activities across peninsular Malaysia as well as other operating divisions.
Kieran Devine has senior management expertise in electrical, energy and infrastructure engineering organisations. This includes asset management, investment decision processes, project delivery, and operational management.
For ten years, Kieran was the General Manager Systems Operations for Transpower New Zealand, where he was initially responsible for developing the SO Team and role. Within the newly created Electricity Market Regulations, he managed the real-time operation of the New Zealand electricity system, and the associated national electricity market. Prior, he was General Manager Service Delivery responsible for the operation, maintenance and investment in the Grid assets at Transpower.
Kieran is, and has been, a director for energy companies and a member and chairman for industry governing bodies and associations. This includes experience in industry reform, organisational change management, asset management, and management efficiency and performance programs.
Kieran Devine has a BE (Hons) Electrical, and ME Electrical from University of Canterbury and a Master’s in Business Administration with Distinction from the Victoria University of Wellington.
Doug is an electrical engineer with broad experience in the electrical supply industry and particularly in electricity market and power systems operations. Doug has held senior management positions in power systems design, project management, and operations.
Doug has over 40 years’ experience in electricity generation, transmission and systems operation. His roles in Transpower included Wholesale Market Project Manager, managing Transpower’s efforts in the design and development of the governance, regulation and rules of the New Zealand Electricity Market (NZEM), the corresponding design and implementation of the NZEM scheduling, dispatch, information and pricing systems and business processes and organisational structures.
In the last 10 years, Doug was accountable for the oversight, coordination and management of Transpower’s wholesale market development strategy and implementation. He was a member of the Market Pricing Working Group, the Security Constraints Working Group and the Electricity Governance Board Rules Rationalisation Working Group. Allied tasks included ownership of the projects implementing approved changes to market systems and business processes.
Doug has a BE Electrical from the University of Canterbury.
Paul is Director of EnergyConsult, an EMCa associate firm. EnergyConsult was established in 1999 in Australia and provides energy policy, market research and program development services in energy efficiency and carbon abatement, mainly to government, development agencies and energy utilities.
Prior to founding EnergyConsult, Paul was a consultant in an international energy consulting firm leading Australian and international energy efficiency research projects and demand side management programs. In the 1980’s while working with the state electricity commission of Victoria, Paul developed the first energy rating label requirements and regulations for several appliance types.
Paul’s latest energy sector experience is focused on forecasting, modelling and data analysis of the physical and financial impacts of the energy efficiency initiatives, regulations and programs. He has assessed or advised on Minimum Efficiency Standards and Energy rating labels in Australia and New Zealand relating to air conditioners, hot water systems, TVs, standby power, refrigerators, fans, chillers and motors.
Paul’s recent international energy efficiency experience includes the development of a national energy efficiency plan for Nepal and energy efficiency measurement systems for Vietnam. He has also undertaken projects regionally for ASEAN, the Pacific islands and Hong Kong. He has strong technical, analytical, modelling and software programming skills which are complimented by his experience in economic, financial and market analyses.
Paul has a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic)
Pat is a Director of our associate firm Efficient Energy International Limited. Prior to becoming a partner in a specialist market and brand business with clients ranging from national organisations through to social behaviour change Not for Profit organizations was the General Manager: Marketing & Communications for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) in New Zealand.
At EECA he led the development of EECA’s brand strategies, marketing strategies and communications including the successful EnerySpot (award winner), home insulation and products programme (which includes appliance labels marketing, Energy Star) and energy efficient lighting programme and which has resulted in significant market change.
Pat is an experienced operator in the private sector having held senior marketing and General Management roles, in a wide range of industries in New Zealand and internationally. Pat’s global experience includes operating in Asian, (China, Japan, India) European, African and American markets.
Pat holds an MBA from Brunel University, London.
Robert is an EMCa Associate and Managing Director of our associate firm, Efficient Energy International Limited, consulting in market strategy, energy policy, capacity building, evaluation and sustainable energy.
Until 2014, Robert was Head of Energy Efficiency at the International Energy Agency. Key outputs included; Energy Efficiency Market Report, Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency, Regional Energy Efficiency Policy Recommendations, cross-sector and sectoral policy analysis in a series of Policy Pathways and sector focused projects in buildings, appliances, industry and transport.
Prior to this Robert was Manager Monitoring and Research for the New Zealand Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA). Whilst in the NZ EECA Robert lead monitoring and analysis of programme design, tracking changes in energy efficiency and renewable energy performance across the New Zealand economy. He was also involved in the development and operation of economic analysis tools for policy design and evaluation. He led New Zealand’s product efficiency regulatory programme, and held roles in the development of New Zealand’s first National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy.
Robert’s international energy efficiency experience includes involvement in IEA and APEC energy efficiency committees and programmes. Robert, whilst working for the APEC Energy Working Group Secretariat developed the Peer Review Energy Efficiency (PREE) concept into a working process. Robert has worked as Project Overseer over representatives from APEC Member Economies and developed tools for effective training and capacity building to be implemented within the APEC Member Economies.
Robert has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Associate Director – Scott is an engineer with 20 years’ experience in all aspects of the electricity industry. Scott has experience working across the entire electricity supply chain and has also worked in government policy development, energy regulation and electricity market operations.
Since joining EMCa, Scott has worked primarily with a large electricity utility business in Malaysia, providing advice and guidance on the preparation of their incentive based regulatory submission. He has worked with the business in preparing a convincing narrative for the submission, and ensuring all past and future expenditure is suitably explained and persuasively supported by robust justification.
Prior to joining EMCa, Scott worked at Networks NSW where he project- managed the regulated revenue resets for NSW distributors Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy and Essential Energy. This included managing the preparation of three highly complex submissions for each business, and tens of thousands of pages of supporting information, independent expert reports, financial and performance reports, and court submissions.In this role he:
At NSW electricity distributor Ausgrid, Scott was responsible for smart meter policy and regulation. During this time, he also project managed a smart meter technology trial and several customer research programs aimed at developing and implementing new smart meter enabled electricity tariffs.
Scott spent 3 years working at the Australian Energy Market Commission, where he managed several major industry reviews including, review of the Effectiveness of the NEM in light of Extreme Weather, review of dispatch arrangements for wind farm and review of reliability standards.
Earlier roles include Wholesale Markets Regulation Manager at Energex Retail, Team Manager Electricity Markets at Queensland Government, Market Analyst at the National Electricity Market Management Company, and Engineer at NSW generator Pacific Power.
With an associated firm, EMCa is advising the Malaysian Energy Commission (Suruhanjaya Tenaga) on benchmarking expenditure, prices and performance in the Malaysian electricity generation, transmission and distribution sectors.
September 2014
David Keir has joined EMCa as an Associate. Click here to review David’s experience.