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Vilnis Vesma

Vilnis Vesma has a website Vesma.com that organizes a lot of information about energy use and energy waste

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Personal profile: Vilnis Vesma

Direct +44(0)1531 821350
Mobile +44(0)777 378 1427
vilnis@vesma.com

Over 20 years' experience as an independent energy management specialist

Author of Energy management principles and practice (pub. BSI, 2009) and Managing energy with a desk-top computer (Energy Publications, 1985)

Previous experience includes:
Energy team leader in local government
Research engineer in electricity industry
Education officer and deputy secretary, Institute of Energy (1)
Graduate chartered engineer
Certified Energy Manager
Certified Measurement and Verification Professional
Specialist in low-cost and no-cost energy saving techniques including targeting-and-monitoring schemes and staff training
Formerly ran the AWA energy and water benchmarking study groups
Developed the concept of 'waste avoidance' as a tool for cost reduction and environmental management
Author of various computer software packages for energy management
Secretary, UK Association of Energy Engineers
Committee member, International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol
Member of CEN/CENELEC and ISO committees writing management-systems standards for energy
Former council member, Energy Services and Technologies Association
Chaired CEN/CENELEC joint working group drafting a European Standard for energy audits
Former council member of the Institute of Energy (1)
Former editor of the Eclipse Group's quarterly FM Focus: Cost Control

(1) Now the Energy Institute