Ernst & Young Interview

-LDA report is on the website. Other reports cannot be shared.

-In LDA project, focus on building, transport and business infrastructure.

-Which projects are the Project Director & Project Manager directly involved? (refer to slides 7 and 8)

-In the process of filling up the table (sent to EY last Thursday)

-In previous project, went to the precinct and get the energy consumption from the electricity distributor (e.g. SP services for residential, NEA to support and obtain approval for sharing of data, approximation required if data is not available) and obtain the energy mapping

-Approximations will have a basis e.g. EMA has info on the % of energy consumed in common areas

-ICT: will rely on the study on data centers (but only for 20 DCs); will segregate 5 or 6 companies (of different scales) to do detailed analysis (do calculations) and then estimate for the rest

-How to do footprinting for transport sector? – Impossible to do it at precinct level. Apportionment based on population and type of building load (building methodology) for national level

-Presentations will take up 6 months (work will be completed in 9 months)

  • Masdar city is not a good example as it is a green field => not a relevant experience
  • Company wise, they have 2 projects that are of similar scope
  • Try to get the India report (as Project manager and director are directly involved), look into London report
  • Did not get scope right (e.g. abatement cost curve all involve vehicular technologies, most of the technology levers are not relevant to Singapore – pg 34)
  • Get info of the expertise of the team members
  • Data collection may be difficult but EY did not mention about conducting fieldwork

McKinsey

-Project directors: Shannon (similar project in San Fransico, Australia) Kaushik and Rohit

-Project manager: Michele, Sushant (similar project in India, EE for bldgs in KL, cost abatement curves in Indonesia)

-Driving EE in Singapore (industrial sector) in corporation with EDB and NEA

-Invented intellectual technologies

-Not physical technology developers, thus presenting an objective view

-Able to look into development of IP for Singapore

-Refresh earlier work with EMA (from 2009 to 2011) for transport sector

-If data is not available, do approximations and assumptions for the categories of vehicles (factor in the income to do the approximations & benchmarking from national level)

-Benchmarking: Density (population per sq km) and GDP per capita (directly related to energy comsumption)

-Data are not available in sub-sector, sectors are not defined in the same way so benchmarking may be difficult

-Leverage on relationships with San Fransico, London, Shanghai, New York

-Additional benchmarking cities are at Singapore’s approval and interest

-Penetration rate of HVAC is comparable for Middle East, KL, India, Australia, Florida (during summers)

-Rely on actual data and comparison of other cities for project with some approximations; does not rule out fieldwork

-Publicly available sources such as IEA, manufacturers (when will technologies be commercially available and the estimated cost) to develop the cost curves for Singapore

-Data from US companies may not be applicable to Singapore => customization will be made for Singapore

-Fieldwork will be conducted (e.g. go to supermarket) to collect the prices of technologies in Singapore

-Abatement potential of ICT in other sectors are 3 – 5 times.

-Talk to experts which technologies are currently available/on the horizon and talk to government what are the policies/directions

-Interviews of homes and companies to find out the number of computers/printers, data for mobile phones is usually widely available (obtain from studies/reports published)

-Always testing the total consumption and make sure that the energy consumption by each component add up and make sense.

-Able to arrange meetings with other cities if interested

-Working with EMA on LNG currently (workflow and timeline are similar); EDB coal gasification (similar workflow and timeline) => timeline is tried and proven in Singapore’s context

-Able to take NEA members to work full-time tgt or nominate different members in different work streams (up to NEA)

-Organise telephone calls or be flown to Singapore when required of the experts

-Similar scope done in **San Francisco (report will be completed in a month’s time, subjected to approval by San Francisco) , Australia (national level, synthesized report available), New York (sector level => power infrastructure and some buildings), India (carbon cost abatement, baseline 2005, BAU projections), city of Mumbai (able to share public report), cost curves for Indonesia and Thailand, look for building retrofit opportunities in Malaysia KL

-Experts in each sector on top of experts at a city level

-Project manager & director for EMA project available

-Info required from McKinsey: Projects involved and scope of projects, who are the project managers and directors for the projects in a table format; condensed version of reports on sustainability projects; sample cost curves and sources of references and datasets and examples of references in the penetration rate

-Are the software proprietary and IP of McKinsey? – algorithms and global dataset are proprietary to McKinsey; anything related to Singapore will belong to Singapore

-Excel-based application

McKinsey is willing to do fieldwork but both companies use the same methodology (apportionment for national level)