Erin specialises in food processing, industrial sites and institutions.

Building on his background working on energy policy and MW-scale renewable energy projects, Erin has focused his last 20+ years within the industrial energy management sector. In that time, he has acquired considerable experience in helping large energy users achieve significant energy, carbon, and cost savings.

In addition to comprehensive site-wide energy management analysis, Erin specialises in a range of industrial energy-intensive subsystems, and has completed several investment-grade process heat, refrigeration, and compressed air audits at many food processing (and other industrial) plants. Erin has been a Director and Principal Energy and Carbon Specialist at Whirika Consulting Limited since 2024. Prior to this, Erin was Managing Director of Emsol for 22 years.

His approach is to understand his client’s needs and work closely with site managers, engineers, production staff and contractors to maximise practical energy saving projects (often yielding additional productivity benefits).

Erin bases his recommendations on measurement and analysis of key energy and engineering parameters. He also works with clients’ preferred suppliers and service contractors to ensure energy saving solutions integrate with existing systems, projects or planned changes.

Erin is a qualified professional Natural Resources Engineer and has a few post-graduate papers in energy analysis and monitoring.