Dr David Crossley is Managing Director of Energy Futures Australia Pty Ltd.  David established this company in June 1996 to provide consultancy services on energy and environmental policy and programs.  Since then, he has provided advice to a broad range of clients, including governments, regulators, energy companies, industry associations and NGOs.

In May 2009, David joined The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), on a part-time basis.  RAP is a global, non-profit team of experts that focuses on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the electricity and natural gas sectors, providing technical and policy assistance to government officials on a broad range of energy and environmental issues.  Formed in 1992 by a group of veteran utility regulators, RAP has deep expertise in regulatory and market policies that promote economic efficiency, protect the environment, ensure system reliability, and allocate system benefits fairly among all consumers.  For RAP, David is managing a team of experts who will provide technical assistance on demand side management and energy efficiency to the electricity industry and regulators in China and India.

David has 35 years experience working in the energy sector, both in Australia and internationally, particularly in the following areas:

• sustainable energy policy and programs, including energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy and abatement of greenhouse gas emissions;
• government energy policy and planning, across all energy forms;
• energy industry restructuring and reform.

From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, as a university researcher, David pioneered the introduction into Australia of social science research on energy policy and consumer energy conservation behaviour.

During the 1980s, David was the first director of energy planning for the State Government of Victoria in Australia.  He was responsible for the development of energy policy and programs across all energy forms, including initiating and establishing a state-wide energy planning program.

For five years during the 1990s, David was the inaugural senior executive responsible for demand side management and energy efficiency in Pacific Power, which was then the monopoly electricity generation and transmission utility in the State of New South Wales, Australia.  During this time, he wrote the demand side management sections in the National Grid Protocol, the original design for the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) and coordinated national policy on demand side management and energy efficiency in the development of the NEM.

During 1995 and early 1996, David planned and established the Sustainable Energy Development Authority for the State Government of New South Wales, with a mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through promoting energy efficiency and increased use of renewable energy.