CEP2025 Conference Sponsors
Thank you to our CEP2025 Conference Sponsors
We extend our sincere thanks to all our sponsors for supporting the CEP2025 Conference, held on the 27th and 28th of May 2025 at the Grand Millennium in Auckland.
Your support has been instrumental in making this New Zealand’s leading sustainable conference.
GOLD SPONSORS
EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority)
The government agency working across sectors to improve energy affordability, security, and productivity to support better energy outcomes for all New Zealanders.
EECA is a deliver agency, a regulator, and an authority for energy use. EECA’s work encourages, promotes, and supports energy efficiency, energy conservation, and the use of renewable sources of energy. EECA’s purpose is to mobilise New Zealanders to be world leaders in clean and clever energy use.
Nature’s Flame
Our purpose is to provide a sustainable fuel source for New Zealand that is reliable, local and ethical.
This enables the decarbonisation journey that we are on as a country to move faster without sacrificing productivity that we all rely on.
Our goal is to continue expanding as fast as possible to turn the dial and remove as much coal use from our country as possible.
Toitū Envirocare
The leading provider of environmental certifications in New Zealand. Since 2001, its programmes have ensured that New Zealand companies are benefiting from international best practice, leading science, and effective tools.
Toitū Climate Impact and Enviromark certification programmes meet and exceed the requirements of ISO standards, ensuring consistent and comprehensive reporting, benchmarking and management of environmental and climate impacts. We offer product life cycle assessments and expertise in calculating and submitting science-based carbon emission targets.
Toitū Envirocare is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, a Government-owned Crown Research Institute. Though developed for New Zealand business needs, Toitū Envirocare’s offerings currently serve over 1100 businesses worldwide.
SILVER SPONSOR
ApricusEco
Sustainable, environmentally friendly, central heating and hot water.
Helping you to design & install sustainable hot water and central heating systems for any home or commercial building.
We are focused on reducing heating bills and environmental impacts by utilising the latest technology and design.
We provide advice, products, heat load calculations, detailed technical training and support for a range of eco-friendly hot water and central heating systems: including pellet boilers, hot water heat pumps and solar hot water systems.
INNOVATION PARTNER
Ara Ake
Aotearoa New Zealand’s future energy centre, focused on accelerating New Zealand’s transition to a low-emissions energy future. Ara Ake collaborates across the energy ecosystem to enable energy solutions to become commercially viable to support the decarbonisation of New Zealand.
LUNCH SPONSOR
Lumen
Are specialist engineers designing sustainable and practical solutions for a better future. With 50 professionals across New Zealand and Australia, we offer a wide range of engineering design and consulting services. From working with end users to reduce costs and decarbonise, to designing and maintaining new electrical infrastructure, we support decarbonisation across the entire sector. We have a down to earth, no-nonsense approach to consulting & engineering and we love seeing our clients succeed.
NETWORKING FUNCTION SPONSOR
Tonkin + Taylor
An award-winning, environmental and engineering consultancy. Founded in 1959, we have a rich history of technical excellence.
At Tonkin + Taylor, we take pride in our knowledge, experience, and our ability to act as nimble and responsive problem solvers. We believe that risk management is key and take a holistic approach to projects, considering each issue from multiple perspectives to provide the best possible answer.
With locations across New Zealand and Australia, project offices in the Asia-Pacific region, and global connections with consultancies through the Inogen Alliance, Tonkin + Taylor Group is committed to creating sustainable outcomes that benefit our clients, communities, and the environment.
NAME BADGE SPONSOR
Tether
Transforms your buildings from costly burdens into powerful assets by mastering the data that drives performance. We eliminate the painstaking hassle of data capture – saving your team days every week – with our unparalleled expertise in building performance data extraction. Our turnkey approach makes it effortless to MEASURE efficiency, strategically REDUCE your operational costs and carbon footprint, and effortlessly COMPLY with tightening regulatory and ESG demands. Partnering with Tether means less headache, more control, and tangible results. Boost your bottom line, achieve sustainability targets, and stay confidently compliant – all from a single, intuitive solution that delivers proven outcomes.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPONSOR
Climate Connect Aotearoa
Is spearheaded by Tātaki Auckland Unlimited on behalf of Auckland Council, is an innovation hub fostering collaborative climate action. The hub delivers on the Economy priority action from Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate Plan, aiming to “accelerate the uptake of innovation that supports the delivery of a resilient, climate-proof and regenerative economy”. The hub brings together business, government, Māori, academia, funders and investors, and climate innovators to develop, demonstrate and scale the solutions needed to ensure we reduce emissions in line with global agreements.
SPEAKER GIFT SPONSOR
Yealands Wines
Launched in August 2008 with the ambition of becoming a world leader in sustainable wine production. In addition to winning numerous international accolades for the quality of their wines, the company’s innovative approach to sustainable wine production has seen the extensive restoration of native vegetation within their vineyards to promote biodiversity and provide a habitat for native birds and insects and the installation and utilisation of renewable energy initiatives. Yealands is proudly New Zealand owned and has established itself as one of New Zealand’s prominent wine producers, creating premium quality sustainable wines that are exported to over 65 countries.
MEDIA PARTNER
Energy News
New Zealand’s online news and information service for the energy sector including a comprehensive industry participant and energy asset database.
Energy News was launched in 2008. Readers from more than 400 subscribing organisations visit the site more than 4,500 times weekly. Its readership consists of New Zealand energy sector organisations and services companies spanning the electricity, oil and gas, petroleum and alternative energy value chain.
The subscription-based website provides executive interviews, news, opinions and commentary on a daily basis. It also hosts a suite of information resources including two large databases of the sector participants and energy resources.
Published 26 May 2025
