Mr William Saxby
Greenhouse and Environmental Management
William Saxby is an expert in the field of indoor air quality, urban air quality and greenhouse. He has advised the Australian gas and electricity industry on indoor air and urban air quality issues. He developed the greenhouse footprint for a major Australian gas and electricity company and the company's landfill gas emission reduction program that provided both NSW Greenhouse Abatement certificates and federal Greenhouse Friendly certificates. He has worked in the biodiesel industry.
During twenty-five years in the gas and electricity industry, he received a Meritorious Award from The Australian Gas Association and five achievement awards from the company for his work.
William's expertise in quantifying the impact of a company's greenhouse emissions is extensive; from the start of the Federal Government's Greenhouse Challenge to the current legislation on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
His work has involved:
- developing co-operative agreements and submitting annual reports to the Australian Greenhouse Office (now Department of Climate Change) that successfully passed independent verification.
- developing the necessary data collection procedures and spreadsheets for company-wide greenhouse footprints both for annual Sustainability Reporting and for National Greenhouse Emissions Reporting to a high level of detail and rigour.
He has promoted landfill and biogas greenhouse abatement projects. This work extended to developing Monitoring and Verification Protocols and spreadsheets for the generation of 'Greenhouse Friendly' abatement certificates and New South Wales Greenhouse Abatement Certificates for a business worth $9 million annually. William has conducted an evaluation of greenhouse abatement impacts of gas distribution network rehabilitation and demand side management projects in Poland, China and Chile.
He has written NSW Retail Licence Environmental Compliance reports to the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal for both gas and electricity. He has made submissions to the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority, the Victorian Office of Gas Safety, the National Environment Protection Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council on both urban air quality and indoor air quality.
He was the Australian gas industry expert on gas heater emissions and provided advice both to government and industry on the management and reduction of indoor gas appliance emissions.
He has managed and designed biodiesel production laboratories, trained staff and operators, solved biodiesel production problems and consulted to biodiesel companies in Australia, New Zealand and other countries.
He has authored and co-authored with Dr Ly more than 30 papers and abstracts on energy efficiency, the environment, greenhouse, natural gas for vehicles and gas appliance emissions for publication in journals and for presentation at technical meetings, seminars and international conferences.
