SunPower Corporation Australia Pty Ltd managing director Bob Blakiston has been elected as the new chair of the Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc.
SunPower Corporation Australia Pty Ltd managing director Bob Blakiston has been elected as the new chair of the Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc.
Mr Blakiston takes over from retiring chair Simon Avery of Solahart Industries.
Below is the announcement:
The Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc (WA SEA) members today elected Bob Blakiston as the new Chair of WA SEA, the only business peak body actively supporting substantive action on sustainable energy in Western Australia.
Mr Blakiston is Managing Director for SunPower Corporation Australia Pty Ltd, the Australian operation of the Nasdaq listed company SunPower Corporation (SPWRA), a manufacturer of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems.
Mr Blakiston takes over the reigns from retiring Chair, Simon Avery of Solahart Industries, and becomes WA SEA's fourth Chair.
"WA SEA is growing rapidly, is increasingly more effective and respected, but it will only remain relevant if both of those things continue to happen with the growing support of members," says Bob Blakiston, Chair of WA SEA.
WA SEA represents more than 190 industry members from a diversity of companies, businesses, organisations and individuals involved in sustainable energy practices and including energy efficiency across government, business and the community in: infrastructure; architecture and design of buildings and homes; transport; performance of appliances, vehicles, machinery, and industrial processes; and the use of renewable energy generation including passive use and solar hot water.
WA SEA members are many of the key energy players in Western Australia, exemplified by our current corporate members: Alinta, Auto Classic BMW, BHP Billiton Iron Ore, BP Australia, Carnegie Corporation, City of Mandurah, Gull Group of Companies, Horizon Power, Landfill Gas & Power, Pacifichydro, Perth Energy, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rio Tinto, Solahart, SunPower Corporation, Synergy, The University of Western Australia,Verve Energy, Western Power, the WA Department of Industry and Resources, and WorleyParsons.
WA SEA has a strong reputation in Western Australia for authoritative commentary on a broad range of issues around energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
"WA SEA Members are already engaged in providing the business part of the solution to climate change in both energy efficiency and emissions free energy, to get the job done in a way that won't cost the Earth," says Dr Ray Wills, CEO of WA SEA.
"And WA SEA Members are already engaged in providing the business part of the solution to climate change, to get the job done in a way that won't cost the Earth."
The members of the 2008/2009 WA SEA Management Committee elected at today's Annual General Meeting are:
Chair
- Bob Blakiston, Managing Director, SunPower Corporation Australia
Vice-Chair
- Greg Denton, General Manager - Power, WorleyParsons
Treasurer
- Harry Porrins, (Individual member)
Secretary
- Adam Lippiatt, Legal Counsel, Horizon Power
Committee Members
- Howard Buckley, Chief Executive, Sungrid Ltd
- Regina Flugge, Principal Adviser Sustainable Development & Projects Rio Tinto
- Glen Head, Director, HAC Consulting
- Jim Thomson, Director, Outback Energy
- Michael Starling, Director, Planet Carbon
- Andrew Disney, (Individual member)
