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About Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice encourage industry participants and other stakeholders to work together on how to conduct assessments and effectively implement the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program.
These communities are working to improve the capacity of businesses to participate in Energy Efficiency Opportunities. In addition to Communities of Practice, the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism is also focusing on sector-based initiatives; the development of tools, materials and case studies; and skills development activities such as workshops.
Communities of Practice focus on industry-led cooperative knowledge and learning, and seek to complement the Department's commitment to comprehensive consultations on program policy and development issues.
Roles and responsibilities
If you are a member of a Community of Practice it is important that you are aware of your responsibilities and those of the Department. In summary, the Department promotes Communities of Practice, and provides limited assistance to each group. The organisation and administration of each Community of Practice is carried out by the group's members.
Participant responsibilities
- Input to charter development and refinement. Charters should contain:
- name of the Community of Practice
- contact details of the nominated project leader
- member names
- objectives
- deliverables
- intention of group in next 6 months
- operating practices
- whether the project is local or national
- next steps.
- Fulfill commitments agreed with Community of Practice colleagues.
- Pay own costs to participate.
- Freely share expertise and practical experience with Community of Practice colleagues.
- Document and share learning insights.
- Provide shared leadership and drive to the Community of Practice.
- Provide a place to learn, such as a meeting venue if necessary.
Community of Practice responsibilities as a whole
- Share knowledge, skills and resources amongst members.
- Document key learning insights and make available to others via the Department.
- Share learning insights at workshops.
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism responsibilities
- Offer to connect locally formed Communities of Practice that wish to operate more widely or nationally.
- Help source technical expertise if requested.
- Help source a facilitator if requested.
- Provide opportunities to share learning insights and experience amongst Communities of Practice and other program participants.
- Make a web-based discussion forum available to promote communication amongst Communities of Practice.
- Promote good practice and constructive approaches amongst all Communities of Practice.
Getting involved in a Community of Practice
Communities of Practice are listed below. You may offer to become involved in a particular Community of Practice by contacting the relevant project leader.
If you have any questions please call the EEO hotline on 1300 799 186 or email energyefficiencyopportunites@ret.gov.au.
Communities of Practice – Topics, objectives and contacts
1. Data capture and analysis techniques
2. Energy efficiency opportunities for mobile equipment
3. Hunter energy efficiency group
4. Red meat industry
5. New design assessment
6. Onsite generation, cogeneration, and utilisation of waste streams
7. Regional Queensland Energy Efficiency Opportunities participants
8. Representative assessments
9. Tracking energy efficiency projects and reporting
10. Sugar milling
| Topic | Objective | Contact |
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| Data capture and analysis techniques | Understand how to extract data practically and how to understand it using diagnostic and benchmarking tools. Demonstrate analysis techniques applied to examples based on actual data. | Narelle Roolker
Phone: (03) 6230 5686 |
| Energy efficiency opportunities for mobile equipment | Overall objective is to explore opportunities available to major users of heavy mobile equipment in mining, manufacturing and transport industries in terms of technology, practices and skills, for optimization of energy use. | Krish Krishnamoorthy
Phone: (08) 9360 4606 |
| Hunter energy efficiency group | Overall objective is to share knowledge to reduce the cost of compliance and foster idea development. To engage CEO involvement via discussions with trial company representatives, engage operational staff and drive cultural change. In addition, to widen the group to include other Newcastle-based organisations likely to be required to participate in the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program. | Jim Kelty
Phone: (02) 4961 6544 |
| Red meat industry | To foster an understanding of where energy is used in meat processing plants and the opportunities for reducing energy consumption and peak electricity demand. In addition, to facilitate the transfer of information between plants, particularly from larger processors to smaller processors, about energy efficiency opportunities. | Irene Parker
Phone: (02) 9223 6900 |
| New design assessment | Develop a method to ensure the best energy efficiency technologies are identified in new designs and projects and to have the method accepted by Energy Efficiency Opportunities as an assessment. | Paul Goerick
Phone: (03) 9665 7482 |
| Onsite generation, cogeneration, and utilisation of waste streams | To exchange information about on-site generation and co-generation opportunities within the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program and to further identify and remove barriers to the uptake of co-generation in Australia. | Soheil Haee
Phone: (03) 6237 3527 |
| Regional Queensland Energy Efficiency Opportunities participants | Fundamental objective is to share information and learning from each other, to maximise speed and breadth of Energy Efficiency Opportunities learning, from other organisations participating in the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program. Lateral and creative solution promotion should be a key goal of the group, given the diversity of location and organisational type evident in the group. | Josh Hankey
Mobile: 0417 191 630 |
| Representative assessments | To develop a fair representative assessment procedure that is not onerous on the business, but still derives maximum benefit from Energy Efficiency Opportunities. | Paul Lang
Phone: (03) 9829 3830 |
| Sugar milling | The sugar industry has a high degree of energy self-sufficiency. The Sugar Milling CoP's fundamental objective is to acquire and share information to provide some direction for the industry to satisfy the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program objectives and, at the same time, derive some real commercial benefits from participation in the program. Lateral and creative solution promotion should be a key goal of the group. | Michael Mangion
Phone: (07) 3138 9402 |
Getting involved in a Community of Practice Communities of Practice are listed below. You may offer to become involved in a particular Community of Practice by contacting the relevant project leader.
If you are having trouble viewing links or finding information on the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program, phone the EEO Hotline on 1300 799 186.
Consultation Process - Exemption for Generators, Transmitters and Distributors /energy/efficiency/eeo/etac/consultation/Pages/default.aspx
Companies whose main business is in electricity generation or electricity or natural gas transmission or distribution have been exempt from participating in the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program since it began on 1 July 2006.
The Australian Government recently reviewed this exemption and decided to extend it for a further four years, until 30 June 2013. In November 2008 and March 2009, the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism consulted with the public, and potentially affected stakeholders, as part of the review process. Documents relating to these consultation processes are available below.
The Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism would like to thank those who participated and contributed to the consultation and overall review processes.
The Energy Efficiency Opportunities Regulations 2006 have been amended to reflect the decision to extend the exemption for these sectors. Copies of the amended regulations are available from the Commonwealth of Australia Law website
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The future of the exemption will again be reviewed prior to 30 June 2013.
If you have any further questions regarding the exemption, please phone David Allbeury on 02 6213 7277 or the EEO Hotline on 1300 799 186.
Download PDF
1. 1st Consultation Paper 
[PDF, 203KB]
2. 1st Consultation Information Session Presentation [PDF, 242KB]
3. 1st Stakeholder Consultation Process Summary [PDF, 242KB]
4. 2nd Consultation Paper – March 2009 [PDF, 78KB]
5. 2nd Stakeholder Consultation Process - April 2009 [PDF, 78KB]
If you are having trouble viewing links or finding information on the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program, phone the EEO Hotline on 1300 799 186.