NG Energy Efficiency Optimisation Project (Revoked)

NG Energy Efficiency Optimisation Project (Revoked) was an energy efficiency project with a nationwide scope across Australia, managed by Northmore Gordon Pty Ltd. It was registered in August 2019. Because the project involves upgrading equipment at various industrial facilities rather than operating on a single rural property, it covers an unknown area size and the regional land use is predominantly urban, commercial, and industrial built environments.

Industrial Equipment Upgrades projects involve modifying, replacing, or installing new industrial equipment to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Standard requirements dictate that the upgraded equipment must have been in use prior to the project, consume less than 500,000 gigajoules of energy annually, and the upgrades must be recommended by an independent energy savings report or audit from the last 2 years.

Due to the nationwide, facility-based nature of this project, typical agricultural environmental metrics do not uniformly apply. The climate and rainfall classifications vary significantly across the continent depending on the specific facility locations, and soil types, such as basalt, clay, or sandy loam, are largely irrelevant to the concrete and built environments where these commercial and industrial upgrades occur.

The project targeted a massive array of activities, including boiler upgrades, fuel switching, HVAC system overhauls, waste heat capture, and the installation of variable speed drives. Northmore Gordon, the project proponent, is a specialist energy and environmental consultancy with physical offices across Melbourne, Sydney, and Newcastle. The project was voluntarily revoked under section 30 of the CFI Rule on November 3, 2023.