Energy Institute elects first chartered energy manager
8 Dec 2010
The Energy Institute (EI) has elected its first chartered energy manager - Owen Everall CEng MEI, who is the site engineering and facilities manager for Syngenta.
The EI launched this new grade of registration earlier in the year to support and recognise professional practitioners who are responsible for managing energy to reduce use, increase efficiency and reduce carbon emissions on a daily basis.
The EI’s new grade of Chartered Energy Manager completely sums up what I do in the energy management arena,” said Everall. “It’s about managing energy on-site and more closely reflects and recognises the work undertaken to deliver sustainable energy savings.”
Everall joined Syngenta in 2004 and since then he has worked with the site engineering team to immediately effect changes to the way the building services are operated and has continued to do so over the last five years, resulting in an energy reduction of 43% and water savings of 60%.
This equated to a reduction from 72 million kWhrs in gas/electricity in 2004 to 41 million kWhrs in 2009 and water consumption has reduced from 174k tonnes to 72k tonnes over the same period, meaning a financial contribution of £3.6 million compared to a ’do nothing’ approach.
Sarah Beacock FEI, professional affairs director at the EI, said: ’The assessors and peer reviewers were very impressed with Owen’s enthusiasm for the job and his passion for continued learning. We believe Energy Managers are critical to the success of an organisation looking to meet its carbon reduction commitments or indeed any environmental targets where energy plays a key part.”
