Welcome to Energy Futures Australia
Energy Futures Australia was founded in 1996 by our Managing Director, Dr David Crossley. We are a small, highly focussed consultancy company specialising in providing analysis, advice and project management services in relation to:
- sustainable energy policy and programs, including energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy and abatement of greenhouse gas emissions;
- energy policy and planning across all energy forms, with an emphasis on climate change and greenhouse issues;
- energy industry restructuring and reform across the diversity of evolving energy markets.
Since 1996, we have completed more than 50
projects and over 100
publications for a broad range of clients in Australia and internationally, including governments, regulators, energy companies, industry associations and NGOs.
Note: Energy Futures Australia is not involved in futures market trading. Our company name refers to future energy policy and programs rather than financial trading.
What we do
Following are some of the projects we have successfully completed. For background information on each of these projects, please click the links in red. Summaries of all projects completed by Energy Futures Australia are available from the search boxes on the left under 'EFA's Work'. A printable list of all EFA projects is available under the 'About Us' menu item above.
Technical Assistance on Energy Efficiency and Emissions Trading in China
Client: The Regulatory Assistance Project, China office
Currently managing the provision of technical assistance on energy efficiency and emissions trading to a range of government agencies at both the central and provincial level in China. There is considerable activity in China at present on developing pilot trading schemes in several locations, though none has actually been implemented yet. This project is providing technical assistance to the various groups involved in designing these schemes. One major activity undertaken in May 2011 was organising international practitioners who have been personally involved in designing and implementing trading schemes to speak at a workshop in Beijing on market mechanisms to support China's climate change goals. The workshop was organised by the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese Government’s National Development and Reform Commission in association with the Beijing office of The Energy Foundation, a United States NGO. Project commenced in 2011.