Young Achiever
Winner: Matthew Forrest, Founder and Managing Director Economical Energy
Commendations
Aaron Barbaro, OZ Minerals
Fontae Franks, OZ Minerals
Matthew Musolino, OZ Minerals
Indigenous Young Achiever
Winner: Chandrika Coulthard, Byrnecut/OZ Minerals Alliance
Winner: Tyrone Strangways, Agile Mining Services
Award nominees
369 LABS
Project: Unlocking renewables for all
A renewable energy metering platform providing solar and storage for tenants.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
AA Managed Investment Group (AAMIG) and Colby Phillips Advisory
Project: South Australia's home-grown Energy Management Platform for agribusiness
A bespoke platform to manage and optimise cost savings and revenues from investment in renewable energy.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
Learn more about AAMIG and Colby Phillips Advisory and their project
Adbri Limited
Project: Adbri's trainee program builds community capability
A community-based training program, recruiting employees from local communities, and with a strong focus on cultural fit and alignment.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Resources)
Alligator Energy Ltd
Project: Mineral exploration improve biodiversity and pastoral condition
An innovative integrated approach to land management, working in conjunction with landowners and Traditional Owners to rehabilitate the country following exploration and other land uses.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources)
Winner
Amber Electric
Project: SmartShiftTM
The development and deployment of automated demand response technology, using real-time wholesale price signals to automate distributed energy resources, saving money and increasing renewable energy consumption.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy sector)
Winner
Australian Gas Networks
Project: Hydrogen Park South Australia (HyP SA) Community
HyPSA established a new standard for community engagement, supplying over 700 homes with up to 5% renewable hydrogen blend into existing AGN natural gas networks.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Energy)
Australian Rare Earths Limited
Project: Koppamura Project
Development of a new resource commodity to the Naracoorte area, setting a strong precedent for what community engagement and co-existence looks like in a modern-day resource development.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Resources)
Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources, The University of Adelaide
Project: Foam-based fluid characterisation: an environmentally friendly technology to enhance gas production
Develops and characterises an eco-friendly foam-based fracturing fluid system to apply under harsh reservoir conditions to replace conventional slickwater.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources secrtor)
Learn more about Australian School or Petroleum and Energy Resources and their project
Winner
Beach Energy
Project: Dombey 3D geophysical surveyAn innovative approach to acquiring geophysical data, eliminating the need for clearing native vegetation and better protecting local wildlife habitats.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources sector)
BHP Olympic Dam
Project: Creating a safe and inclusive workplace culture
Using an approach focused on understanding specific drivers of inappropriate behaviours within the workplace, progressing the goal of achieving gender balance in their workforce by 2025.
Premier's Awards category: Inclusion and wellbeing (Resources)
BHP Olympic Dam
Project: Reduction of diesel particulate matter and respirable crystalline silica exposure
Improved design and installation of controls to reduce the number of workers potentially exposed to diesel particulate matter, respirable silica and coal mine dust at the Olympic Dam operations.
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources)
Delorean Corporation Ltd and Blue Lake Milling
Project: Blue Lake Milling SA Bioenergy Plant
Development of the world's first commercial scale anaerobic digestion facility to convert ground out milled feed into renewable energy, heat and biofertiliser.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Energy)
Learn more about Delorean Corporation Ltd and Blue Lake Milling and their project
EPS Energy, AMP Energy, Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation (BDAC) and Norman Waterhouse
Project: Yoorndoo Ilga Solar
A battery storage project on land owned in freehold by BDAC, delivering clean and renewable energy targets for the state and whole of Australia, and providing significant positive economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Energy)
Erizon
Project: Tailings storage facility dust management project
Developing a bonded fibre matrix mixture combined with a fertiliser and seed program, and use of purpose-built low-ground pressure vehicles to reduce soil impaction, achieving long-term dust suppression.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (ETS)
Hallett Group
Project: Kulpara Quarry - process and sustainability improvements
Innovative changes to production processes to minimise handling and production methods leading to reduced production costs and minimising waste products.
Premier's Awards category: Productivity improvement (Resources)
Hanson Construction Materials
Project: Crushing fixed plant decommissioning
Development of in-pit crushing using a mobile crusher to reduce dust and noise, increasing operational efficiency and providing improved environmental outcomes.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources)
Learn more about Hanson Construction Materials and their project
Hanson Construction Materials
Project: From by-product to raw material
Creation of a new set of evaporation ponds to optimise silt recovery, allowing effective management and using the silt as raw material in the brick industry for rehabilitation purposes.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Resources)
Learn more about Hanson Construction Materials and their project
Iluka Resources Limited
Project: Iluka Resources Work Experience Program
A collaboration between Iluka Resources, Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation, EyrePlus and Spencer Institute of TAFE Ceduna to provide opportunities for Indigenous youth to engage with local employment.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Resources)
IQMS Australasia Pty Ltd
Project: SA Engineering
Implementing a management system to maximise employee engagement through technology and increasing operational efficiency through automation.
Premier's Awards category: Productivity improvement (ETS)
JOLT Charge Pty Ltd
Project: Fast, free electric vehicle charging across Adelaide
Establishing a network of free, fast public electric vehicle charging stations in Adelaide LGAs at no cost to Councils.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
Kaefer Integrated Services
Project: SMART Choices Behavioural Program
Development of a cultural program to encourage employees to make good choices in the workplace, based around 5 pillars of safety, quality, environment, people and productivity.
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources)
Learn more about Kaefer Integrated Services and their project
Winner
MaxMine
Project: MaxMine Carbon
Utilising innovative technology and extensive data analytics capabilities to allow open pit mining companies to measure, manage and reduce their carbon footprint associated with diesel emissions.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (ETS)
Neoen
Project: Horndale Power Reserve Virtual Machine Mode (VMM)
Demonstrating that grid scale batteries can deliver inertia services comparable to traditional synchronous machines - with strong collaboration between Neoen, Tesla, the Australian Energy Market Operator and ElectraNet.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
OZ Minerals and Global Maintenance Upper Spencer Gulf
Project: Competitive Capability Program (CCP)
A cross-sector, region-wide capacity-building program delivering hands-on business development assistance to SMEs across the Upper Spencer Gulf.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Resources)
OZ Minerals and QUBE Holdings
Project: Vision Electric
A cross-sector partnership undertaking an operational trial of exchangeable battery technology to eliminate charging time, and retrofitted into existing haulage fleets.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Resources)
Learn more about OZ Minerals, Qube Holdings and their project
Winner
Planet Ark Power and Epic Energy
Project: IKEA eleXsys Microgrid
A unique eleXsys technology platform enabling installation of optimised rooftop solar across commercial and industrial buildings, combined with batteries in a microgrid to play a key role in providing grid stability.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
Learn more about Planet Ark Power, Epic Energy and their project
SA Power Networks
Project: Inspector Spot: Autonomous asset inspection
Combining leading-age AI technology and one of the first quadruped robots along with ground and airborne drones to automate asset data collection, enabling improvements to ensure service performance, risk and cost objectives are met.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Energy)
SA Power Networks
Project: Reset stakeholder engagement
A redesign of the business as usual framework, establishment of a new Community Advisory Board and reset of stakeholder engagement to ensure voices of all customers are heard and considered.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Energy)
Santos
Project: Cooper Basin waste minimisation project
Waste improvement initiatives to drive step change in the management of waste and implementation of behavioural improvement initiatives, including partnerships with key contractors to deliver waste reduction campaigns.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources)
Winner
Santos
Project: How to drive around the world 500 times safely - the Santos story
A review of Santos' fleet and driving standards, including in-vehicle monitoring resulting in reductions in speeding LSRs and fatigue events along with a significant cultural change to driving.
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources)
SGS Australia
Project: See Something, Say Something!
A campaign to explain to employees, contractors and visitors how caring for each other's health, safety and wellbeing can be lived and acted every day.
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources)
South Australian Hydrogen Hubs Inc
Project: SA-H2H Hydrogen Technology Cluster
Establishing Hydrogen Hubs in strategic locations across South Australia that will become the go-to locations for hydrogen technologies and processes.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (ETS)
Learn more about South Australian Hydrogen Hubs Inc and their project
The University of Adelaide
Project: Determining relative permeability and capillary pressure from single coreflood
Developing a new laboratory method for simultaneous determination of rock sample relative permeability and capillary pressure from the same coreflood test.
Premier's Awards category: Productivity improvement (Resources)
Learn more about The University of Adelaide and their project
The University of Adelaide and MinEx CRC
Project: Transformative ways to date resource-hosting rocks
Applying new laser-based mass spectrometer technology to date sedimentary rocks in deep time - quickly, cheaply and accurately.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Resources)
Learn more about The University of Adelaide and MinEx CRC project
The University of Adelaide
Project: Wellbore decommissioning for hydrogen pipe storage
A multidisciplinary research project introducing a model which details how oil and gas wellbores can be repurposed for storing hydrogen in gaseous form.
Premier's Awards category: Environment (Resources)
Learn more about the University of Adelaide and this project
Winner
Uni Hub Spencer Gulf Inc
Project: Uni Hub Spencer Gulf - 'Growing our Own' skilled workforce
A local not-for-profit organisation operating university study centres and partnering with universities to invest in local delivery of qualifications to address the region's professional workforce shortages.
Premier's Awards category: Community (Resources)
Unlocking Complex Resources - The Consortium, The University of Adelaide and University of South Australia
Project: PRIF Mining Consortium 'Unlocking complex resources through lean processing'
An interdisciplinary approach in partnership with end-users and the METS sector to optimise the entire mining value chain, maximising value from complex resources and minimise environmental impact.
Premier's Awards category: Innovation and collaboration (Resources)
Learn more about Unlocking Complex Resources - The Consortium
Wilco Technologies
Project: Trajectaflex resin firing system
A system that allows operators to install resin bolts from the drill work platform, minimising and eliminating risk when applying ground support to minimise the potential for rockfalls and roof collapse in underground mining.
Premier's Awards category: Health and safety (Resources)
