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Project: Capturing the benefits from changes leading to energy efficiency and productivity improvements at Olympic Dam through Retailer Energy Productivity Scheme (REPS) activities
Category: Innovation and transformation - productivity improvement - Energy generation, transmission, distribution, retail, energy products and services
The Energy Use Improvement Capture Process was established to identify energy reduction or efficiency improvements across Olympic Dam (OD), and to capture these as Retailer Energy Productivity Scheme (REPS) activities, track them through the project delivery lifecycle and prove the energy savings. It established a system and pipeline of ideas and initiatives that will lead to future REPS energy reduction projects.
This has improved understanding as to how OD teams can contribute to carbon emissions reduction and provided tools to identify and deliver ongoing energy reduction and productivity improvements. It enables the whole workforce, and delivers on Olympic Dam's purpose of one team sustainably delivering copper to the world. It uses the BHP Operating System supported by the KaiNexus software application to track improvement opportunities through their lifecycle and conduct problem solving sessions to continue to increase engagement across the asset with REPS capture.
So far three projects have been delivered for REPs - Raise Bore Fans Improvement, Metering Improvement and Generator Studies.
This is an ongoing program and targeted search for opportunities to reduce fossil fuel use and electricity use and improve energy efficiency at Olympic Dam.
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