Grant: Engage Grants Program

Highland Valley Copper (HVC) is an operation within Teck's copper business unit that continues to push itselfto further embed sustainability into its culture. The mission statement for the Energy focus area under Teck'ssustainability strategy, states, ""we are a catalyst for introducing new energy and management systems that makea positive contribution to efficient use of energy"". In alignment with this mission statement, Teck has createdshort-term goals for 2015 to implement projects that reduce energy consumption by 1,000 terajoules (TJ) atexisting operations. To fulfill its commitment to sustainability, HVC intends to use its massive data sets onenergy consumption to make effective decisions towards conservation.Key Performance Index (KPI) is a crucial tool to measure one's progress towards pre-defined objectives. KPIsused by most companies primarily relate to financial or operational performance. KPIs relating tosustainability, conservation, environment, and health or safety issues do exist, but generally are not adoptedcross-industry. This project aims to develop industry and site specific KPIs for HVC. The company will be ableto use the KPIs to design a data warehouse accompanied with analytic statistical tools to better understand howenergy is being used. Such knowledge will aid HVC and Teck's decision-making process for energyconservation and help to improve their practice in energy conservation and maintain the leadership position inthe world.