This week the team take a look into the future; and more specifically the energy of the future!
We cover off on How just a few tweaks of the current system can help us have a more 'future-proofed' and envornmentally friendly approach to our energy consumption!
Listen in as Aaron & John talk with guest, Tom Green of Enginuity Power Solutions, on his new start up business and his passion for creating a better future for this and the coming generations.

Enginuity Power Solutions

Based in Tasmania and serving clients Australia-wide, Enginuity Power Solutions is a forward-thinking electric power company that turns intangible ideas into innovative power systems. We have a passion for optimising our clients’ energy consumption and power quality with highly efficient and environmentally sound solutions that comply with relevant standards and codes. Our foundations are built upon collaborating with our clients for the entire project lifecycle with an emphasis on our three pillars: consult, design, deliver.

Find out more about Enginuity Power Solutions here:

https://enginuityps.com.au/

Transcript of An Energy Efficient Future (with Tom Green of Engenuity Power Solutions)

Episode: | E82
Show Title: | An Energy Efficient Future
Cast: | Aaron Horne & John McGregor
Guest: | Tom Green
Show Length: | 31 minutes 33 seconds

Tom: In Tasmania, to generate power, it's around 230 to 250 grams of carbon for every unit of energy that we use.

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Aaron: All right, guys. Welcome back to The Property Pod, your weekly engagement into real estate here in the Hobart marketplace. I'm your host, Aaron Horne, and I'm joined by only one of the team members today, John McGregor.

John: Oh, everyone. It's tragic. [laughter]

Aaron: It's all right, mate... it's all right. We don't have our [uh] our captain, [um] Patrick Berry. He's actually off in Sydney with his son. He was competing in the national BMX trials or something like that across the weekend, we should have known. [John: yeah yeah] 

John: Did you see that dumb photo he sent back to where the kid just looked like he did a straight up street fighter kick to the guy's neck? [laughs]

Aaron: I did see that, yeah, so they were at this national event. They normally do events down here in Hobart [um] but yeah, this was his first national and that photo was like yeah it looked like a full 'Mortal Combat' move [John: yeah... yeah] and [um] I was like, "I see your son does this every weekend", he's like, "oh yeah he's really good"

John: Yeah, hats off to those young kids, though, because he said they all just got straight back on the bike and kept racing 

Aaron: Most definitely... most definitely. So, yeah... so Pat's away--it's actually unfortunate that he's away today [um] I think he'd really really be into today's topic and today's guest is kind of really trying to push that environmental approach here at the office and going paperless and going carbon-free and…

John: ...it's like as much as you can [Aaron: yeah] but even then, like there's always a limitation on what you can research yourself, so it's always, you know, being able to find an expert to bring in and go well. Did you know that this could happen? you know…

Aaron: Yes, yeah indeed. So today, we've brought in an expert--someone that we've known for years. We're actually crossing off, as we haven't close before how we... how we knew each other and turns out me and [uh] the guest lived on the same street [John: yeah (laughs)] 

Aaron: That was news to me today, so yeah.

John: I'm pretty pumped because we've got an old name of ours, [uh] Tom Green from Ingenuity Power Solutions.

Tom: Thanks for having me, gentlemen. 

John: Yeah, welcome!

Aaron: Not a problem, my friend. Welcome to the show! Thanks for coming in... thanks for coming in on a [uh] on a bright early morning. It's [uh] it's really good to see you!

Tom: Beautiful drive down from the north of the state this morning, so…

Aaron: I did want to check. Did you drive this morning or did you...? 

Tom: I did

Aaron: So, what time were you up to? What time were you up to come...?

Tom: Out of bed at about ten to five this morning... [the other two react and laugh]

Aaron: We told you we're not that professional. We could have done this [John laughs] way later in the day. [John: yeah yeah!] 

Tom: It's good--good excuse to get out of bed.

John: I think, sometimes, doing these, though, first thing's good, because your mind's not completely focused during work. It's hard to sort of shift gears between starting something, shifting gears, and then back into it. [Tom: Absolutely!]

Aaron: So let's jump straight into your business. You're a startup-- you've kind of just got off the ground in January you were saying, can you... can you give us some scope on [um] on what you... what you're doing out there?

Tom: Yeah look, fundamentally, [um] I guess I'm an Electrician by Trade, Electrical Contractor, also with an engineering degree, so I guess we're a little bit hybrid in what we do and how we do things [um] so I guess the premise of our business is, I guess, finding what we like to call a future-proof solution through energy efficiency and I guess, the added benefits of that [um] obviously, the bottom line, and to become cheaper [John: absolutely] every unit of energy that we use obviously produces carbon, so there's that environmental impact that we're trying to offset [uh] through, I guess, the technologies and the u[m] implementation of different strategies.

John: Yeah, most definitely. So just jumping from kind of, "I was an electrician" and then "I got an engineering degree" kind of... it's a very interesting [um] kind of leap you know, the stereotype will be you either choose a trade or higher education, many sensors, but then you've integrated both, [Tom: yeah, absolutely] so that's serious... serious amount of work there, mate.

Tom: A little bit of a hybrid approach to, I guess, my education in the [uh] moved away to western Australia, moving into year 11 and 12. [Aaron: yep] [um] finished year 11 in WA and then shipped back to Tassie. [um] The education system is convoluted as we all probably know, and I sort of missed the bite, "would have to have done year 11 again blah blah blah", so i gotta trade  [John: