Gareth Evans - Driving Down Business Energy Costs
Download MP3Gareth Evans is the founder and CEO of Veckta, an energy consulting firm that advises businesses on how to take control of their energy costs. Far from taking passive positions, and given rising energy costs, he encourages businesses to explore their options using tools such as onsite energy production, energy efficiency, and energy storage. Veckta develops custom solutions and then employs its platform of ~4,000 vendors to fulfill strategies based on a particular company's needs... be it cost savings, energy resilience, cutting emissions, brand recognition, or prioritizing between locations.
What Gareth has realized since founding Veckta in 2019, is that companies need a playbook. While companies are naturally expert in their own lines of business, since energy costs represent up to 40% of operating costs, rather than letting energy costs spiral upward... companies need to be made aware of their opportunities to not only stem costs, but to create new revenue centers. To spread the word, Gareth has recently written the playbook, a book called "Powering Profits." It was released on May 19, 2026 and is available on Amazon.
Gareth's career in energy began in oil and gas. In 2009, and right after the Gulf War, he was dispatched to Iraq to determine the steps required to rebuild the war-ravaged oil and gas infrastructure in Iraq as a precursor for major oil companies restarting operations there. He was stationed at a U.S. Army base in Basra, and describes mortar attacks, his detail of body guards and more. In that very dangerous capacity, he was made painfully aware of the complex and costly infrastructure needed to extract oil and gas, and beyond that, he took stock at how these precious resources were exported to foreign countries, often for inefficient uses.
In Iraq, Gareth also witnessed the gross disparity between the major international, fossil fuel conglomerates, and the people in Iraq who were lacking access to energy... often with very limited electricity, and often without air conditioning in the desert heat of summer there. His experiences shaped his perspectives, that energy is the lifeblood of economies around the world. Too many of us take it for granted.
For 15 years Gareth worked for Worley/Parsons, nine years of which he worked for its consulting division -- Advisian -- helping to establish energy infrastructure in countries around the world. His frustration with writing plans and giving presentations, often followed by inaction, led him to form Veckta. Through his own company, he was and continues to be determined to see plans through to action... realizing actual projects to manage energy and its costs most wisely in dynamic markets.
This is the gist of Powering Profits: challenging the status quo, adapting purposefully, and empowering co-creation as taking action, Gareth notes, is a team sport. The book makes clear the options that businesses have to control their costs and footprints. It also highlights the cost of inaction, and while fear of failure is understandable and a more powerful emotion than the possibility of victory, how companies can reward action. It's a book for business leaders, a playbook that he hopes will result in hugely positive returns for those companies that take its messages and strategies to heart... and to action.
What Gareth has realized since founding Veckta in 2019, is that companies need a playbook. While companies are naturally expert in their own lines of business, since energy costs represent up to 40% of operating costs, rather than letting energy costs spiral upward... companies need to be made aware of their opportunities to not only stem costs, but to create new revenue centers. To spread the word, Gareth has recently written the playbook, a book called "Powering Profits." It was released on May 19, 2026 and is available on Amazon.
Gareth's career in energy began in oil and gas. In 2009, and right after the Gulf War, he was dispatched to Iraq to determine the steps required to rebuild the war-ravaged oil and gas infrastructure in Iraq as a precursor for major oil companies restarting operations there. He was stationed at a U.S. Army base in Basra, and describes mortar attacks, his detail of body guards and more. In that very dangerous capacity, he was made painfully aware of the complex and costly infrastructure needed to extract oil and gas, and beyond that, he took stock at how these precious resources were exported to foreign countries, often for inefficient uses.
In Iraq, Gareth also witnessed the gross disparity between the major international, fossil fuel conglomerates, and the people in Iraq who were lacking access to energy... often with very limited electricity, and often without air conditioning in the desert heat of summer there. His experiences shaped his perspectives, that energy is the lifeblood of economies around the world. Too many of us take it for granted.
For 15 years Gareth worked for Worley/Parsons, nine years of which he worked for its consulting division -- Advisian -- helping to establish energy infrastructure in countries around the world. His frustration with writing plans and giving presentations, often followed by inaction, led him to form Veckta. Through his own company, he was and continues to be determined to see plans through to action... realizing actual projects to manage energy and its costs most wisely in dynamic markets.
This is the gist of Powering Profits: challenging the status quo, adapting purposefully, and empowering co-creation as taking action, Gareth notes, is a team sport. The book makes clear the options that businesses have to control their costs and footprints. It also highlights the cost of inaction, and while fear of failure is understandable and a more powerful emotion than the possibility of victory, how companies can reward action. It's a book for business leaders, a playbook that he hopes will result in hugely positive returns for those companies that take its messages and strategies to heart... and to action.
