Adam Vucelich
PE, CEM, CMVP
World Kinect Energy | Global Director, Energy Efficiency and Compliance
Speaker
Track G: Energy Services
Session G3: Energy Auditing
September 27, 2024 | 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Strategic Energy Efficiency: Incorporating your decarbonization plan into site-level energy audits
To stay ahead of increasing regulation and disclosure requirements, manufacturers are understanding the need to combine facility energy audits with comprehensive decarbonization strategy. The upcoming mandates from the SEC and a growing number of states make it clear that calculating and making plans to reduce your carbon footprint are going to be necessary. A path to reduce your carbon footprint is to reinterpret the energy audit as one step in a more comprehensive decarbonization strategy. Focusing on energy conservation and carbon reduction as an integral aspect of the energy audit will enable paths to optimize decarbonization project economics and implementation timelines. This requires a holistic view to try and identify electrification, energy reduction, and time of use considerations to provide the greatest benefit. By incorporating decarbonization planning into energy audits, leaders will have a direct line of site on how their investments in energy conservation impact larger sustainability goals.
Speaker Bio
Adam Vucelich spent the first 13 years of his career with Alcoa and Arconic in the aluminum industry. He began his career as a high voltage substaion engineer for a large smelter and progressed through various power system engineering roles including support for Alcoa’s hydroelectric generation facility and rolling mill in Tennessee. Halfway through his career at Alcoa Adam joined the corporate energy group, managing energy efficiency strategy and performing energy auditing work at over 50 locations globally. In the last 3rd of his career with Arconic, Adam was responsible for both energy efficiency and energy procurement for Arconic globally. After leaving Arconic Adam joined Oak Ridge National Lab supporting the US Department of Energy for their Federal Energy Management Program, focusing on Energy Service Performance Contracting and energy efficiency financing. Since Oak Ridge National Lab Adam has worked for high-density data centers managing energy procurement and demand response contracts for mulitple locations. Adam joined World Kinect Energy in 2023 as the Global Director of Energy Efficiency and Compliance to lead energy efficiency efforts and services for WKC clients
