Award winners say

"While energy efficiency is the core of how the company does its business, Covid-19 has highlighted an urgent need to drive positive change, not just for the business but also for the community and employees." Josh Watts, plant director, Concentrate Manufacturing Singapore Pte Ltd

"We have built a dedicated energy management team involving members from different departments, invested in training, and established new data driven processes on energy usage tracking and performance monitoring." Amy Chung, CEO, Containers Printers Pte Ltd

"We believe that by digitalising you can achieve sustainability and energy efficiency goals as well." Anoop Sharma, energy management consultant, Digital Enterprise Services Asean, Siemens Pte Ltd

"We have proven that with data, we can accurately carry out effective measures to ensure productive energy efficiency measures." Peter Goh, vice president, Sunseap Solutions and Sunseap Energy Ventures

"Businesses can take a wide range of approaches to promote energy efficiency in their own operating systems. Apart from the environmental benefit, doing so reduces the operating cost and generates more cash flow for the company. It sometimes also enhances productivity." Beh Cho Hwa, energy manager, CCD Singapore

"Our energy efficiency efforts have not only reaped cost savings, but it also means improved equipment reliability and increased equipment availability. Actual annual savings on a system level is 34.2 per cent and 3.2 per cent on a facility level with no capex outlay." Sean Spencer, vice president and managing director, Afton Chemical Asia Pte Ltd

"As part of the ExxonMobil Global Energy Management System best practices, the plant is on a constant lookout for opportunities to improve its energy use - big and small. And Covid-19 has not stopped the efforts to improve the way it uses energy in its Singapore plants." Raymen Chee, technical director, ExxonMobil Singapore Chemical Plant

"There is awareness across the organisation that energy efficiency sustenance is an on-going team effort hence employees are encouraged to come together to make suggestions such as to improve operational efficiencies." Francis Tan, energy manager, Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (Private) Limited

"Promoting energy efficiency is an ongoing effort at Senoko Energy, and it is not curtailed because of the pandemic. As part of its long-term strategic planning, the company strives to produce energy more efficiently and generating cleaner energy is high on its list of priorities." Tan Cheng Teck, executive vice president, operations & maintenance, Senoko Energy

"Plans are being put into action to elevate the performance of our Green Mark Platinum standard buildings to Super Low Energy buildings in the coming years." Sundaravadivelan Selvam, vice president, campus infrastructure and services, Singapore Management University

"Improving energy efficiency reduces the greenhouse effect and global warming, which helps to combat climate change. Our daily energy demand generates primary greenhouse gas which can be reduced if we use energy more efficiently." Alan Thng, director of Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Estate, Eco & Safety Office

"The building sector can significantly reduce energy use by incorporating energy efficient strategies into the design, construction, and operation of new buildings, and retrofitting existing building to improve their efficiency." Loh Wai Soong, principal engineer, JTC

"JTC is currently working with relevant stakeholders to promote BCA's latest Green Mark super low energy accreditation. It hopes to further improve the energy efficiency of its building operations together with its facilities management partners and industrial partners." Nagarajan Ratha, senior mechanical engineer, JTC