Adrian Davison P. Eng Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Helping Clients move affordably to low carbon heat and power through innovative engineering and team work.

Calgary, Canada Area

Assisting companies reduce utility costs.Provided early design and project management services to a start-up Canadian geothermal project.Assisted a start-up renewable power company

Alberta, Canada

Consulting Engineer to various smaller companies in Canada and the US for energy audits, renewable energy projects, geothermal power and net zero power strategies

Calgary, Canada Area

• Found ways to significantly reduce Opex spend for 7 power stations; when the income from selling wholesale power into Alberta’s grid had been impacted by prices that were at an all-time low:
• Operations headcount was reduced, centralized leased warehouse closed, and parts moved to sites.
• All Ops staff were site based and up skilled to mechanics with most maintenance brought in-house;
• Ops provided remote diagnostic assistance to Client-operated peaking sites.
• Operations management services were sold to a 3rd party client as an extra income source.
• Lean techniques were applied to back-office systems then Operations absorbed them (Procurement, Client invoicing, Reporting, PLC support), allowing company back-office headcount to reduce.

Calgary, Alberta

• Bantrel supplied EPC services to Conoco Philips on their c$8bn Surmont 2 oilsands project. I was responsible for the cost and timeline for Electrical engineering deliverables. The team and I overcame several obstacles.
• Worked with vendors of c$220m of buildings and electrical equipment, managing Change Orders, undertaking walk-downs and overseeing the cloning of well-pad drawings.
• Re-designed the Cable Management Program to reduce on-site waste, improve efficiency and built the tracking and reel assignment program for over 40,000 cables.
• Supported electrical Superintendents with supply chain and quality issues as an on-site engineer.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Set up the first Regional office of Energy Solutions in Manchester and attracted new Clients.
• Became an accredited consultant with Carbon Trust as a specialist in biomass and cogeneration.
• Led and was part of federated teams on many power projects including solar, wind and EfW.
• Undertook a strategic review and 10-day viability trial of a partially built district heat and power scheme fired by a wood chip gasifier.
• Created niche markets for increasing power station efficiencies; complex invoicing audits with PPA reviews (1 Client saving over $11M, another avoiding prosecution due to wrongly calculated combustion emissions.

Warrington, United Kingdom

• With an open remit to save money associated with energy I:
• Created UU’s first Energy Policy and Action Plan that focused on energy reduction and decarbonizing facilities by requiring design standards to minimize lifecycle energy use.
• Created enhanced liquidity commodity trading contracts for electricity and “shrinkage gas”
• Wrote water-industry first “Risk and Governance” documents
• Created daily “Value-at-Risk strategy documents” so the CFO could pre-authorize significant commodity purchases if market triggers were reached.
• Took over renewable power generation technicians and assets as an "incubator project" (21 biogas cogen, 7 hydro) - Added an experienced cogen manager, optimized power & doubled income. - Changed the company narrative.

Harrow, United Kingdom

• Created an industry-first “profit sharing” natural gas commodity purchasing contract against a monthly datum price with traders.
• Re-designed and optimized an on-site utilities billing system for 9 utilities in 23 areas based on energy management system data and manual readings, reducing processing and reporting time, redirected to more energy.
• Led energy saving initiatives within Kodak production areas, that increased to supplying consultancy services to our largest customers in lieu of product price reductions.
• Part of Kodak’s outsourcing team for water supply via an Inset appointment.
• Was Kodak’s Power Station Chemist, also responsible for borehole abstraction and ultrapure water.
• Gained my Six Sigma Black Belt for modelling the addition of a $1.2m absorption chiller as extra steam load for the CCGT scheme in a 1-year simple payback project. I also contributed to its design

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Hands on experience as a 1st line manager managing continuous heat, steam and electrical power for manufacturing, schools and a hospital from natural gas, coal and heavy fuel oil
• I managed monthly billing, performance reporting and Client liaison
• My first optimization work was on a heat recovery system from a dyeworks outfall in Heanor.