Optimise Your Assets. Decarbonise Your Operations. Protect What’s Around Them.

Pollination's Asset Optimisation Advisory Services

We help industrial and infrastructure owners extract more value from existing assets while cutting emissions and reducing environmental impact - backed by technical and financial rigour.

Asset owners face a hard equation: ageing infrastructure, rising compliance pressure, capital constraints and a mandate to decarbonise – all without compromising output, reliability or nature-related commitments.

Pollination is uniquely placed to work with you to identify asset optimisation opportunities that align with your decarbonisation requirements.

What we do

Asset Optimisation

We analyse your operating assets – plant, equipment, fleets, infrastructure – to identify where performance, efficiency and emissions intersect. Our recommendations are engineered for implementation, not just modelling exercises.

  • Energy and emissions audits at asset and fleet level
  • Performance benchmarking against best-available technology
  • Retrofit, electrification and process optimisation pathways
  • Capital planning aligned to decarbonisation timelines

Decarbonisation Strategy

We build pathways that hold up under technical, financial and regulatory scrutiny.

  • Science-based target alignment (SBTi-compatible methodologies)
  • Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions mapping and reduction roadmaps
  • Marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) development
  • Transition risk and capex/opex scenario modelling

Nature & Environmental Protection

Decarbonisation and nature protection are not separate workstreams – they’re engineered together.

  • Biodiversity and land-use impact assessment
  • Water, soil and ecosystem risk screening tied to asset footprint
  • TNFD-aligned nature risk disclosure support
  • Mitigation and offset strategy where reduction alone isn’t sufficient

How we work

  1. Assess We start with your asset register and operational data – not assumptions. Site visits, engineering review and emissions/nature baseline established.
  2. Model We quantify the trade-offs: cost, carbon, performance and environmental risk, scenario-tested against your constraints.
  3. Prioritise You get a ranked set of interventions – sequenced by impact, cost and feasibility.
  4. Implement We stay engaged through delivery, working alongside your engineering and sustainability teams to get interventions built, commissioned and verified.

 

Why Pollination

  • Engineering-led. Our recommendations are grounded in asset-level technical analysis, not top-down sustainability narratives.
  • Dual-lens by design. Every optimisation pathway is assessed for both emissions and nature impact.
  • Built for capital decisions. Outputs are structured for investment committees, not just sustainability reports.
  • Independent. We don’t sell equipment, technology, or carbon credits. Our recommendations aren’t shaped by what we have to sell.

 

Our Asset Optimisation Team Leads

Will Acworth

Managing Director, Head of Energy

William combines deep technical knowledge of climate economics with strong stakeholder engagement to advance climate solutions across the globe. Prior to joining Pollination, William led Adelphi consult’s Carbon Markets and Pricing team where he oversaw projects in climate policy design, implementation and evaluation for clients including the World Bank, European Commission, national governments, development banks and multi-national companies.

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Max Dalton

Director

Max has 10 years’ professional experience spanning structured finance, project finance, funds management, and transactions, underpinned by a foundation in commercial law. Starting his career at Australian law firm, Holding Redlich, Max transitioned from private practice to hybrid legal and commercial roles, leveraging his expertise to deliver value across diverse industries.​

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Sam Bruce

Executive Director

Sam brings considerable experience in clean energy, working across technology strategy and investment, as well as project finance for utility scale assets. Prior to joining Pollination, Sam worked at Fortescue Future Industries, focusing on identifying and investing in solutions for a range of renewable energy technologies and their underlying supply chains. Sam also spent 5 years with CSIRO Futures, the strategic advisory arm of Australia’s national science agency, where he led a number of national strategies including Australia’s National Hydrogen Roadmap and Critical Energy Minerals Roadmap. Before joining CSIRO, Sam worked at Ernst & Young where he provided commercial and financial advice relating to the deployment of large-scale infrastructure assets.

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