Printing industry environmental commentator and author Phillip Lawrence will lead a webinar on voltage optimisation next week.
The event on July 9 at 1pm AEST – one of a series presented by Australia’s Printing Industries – will focus on reducing energy costs by using voltage optimisation.
Lawrence, who represents BJ Ball’s e3 (for energy, efficiency and environment) initiative, says a significant amount of energy going into printing companies is wasted, but reducing this can be relatively simple: “Forty-three per cent of energy supplied to a business or home is wasted,” he says. “This leads to more energy consumption which is even more costly and produces even more energy wastage.
“The traditional solution is to produce more energy via sun and wind instead of reducing wastage but these are not the only options for optimising energy usage.”
Voltage optimisation can help make machines quieter and cooler, require less maintenance, emit less CO2 and cost less.
Lawrence has a Masters Degree (Research Ecological Modernisation) UTS, and is a PhD candidate in Ecological Modernisation at Sydney University. He came to e3 through the commercialisation of his studies which focus on efficient environmental technologies that are widely used overseas but under-utilised in Australia.
To register for this 30 minute webinar click here. A 15 minute Q&A session will follow.