Energy advice to take home
Home energy advice to make your home more healthy and comfortable – lowering bills, reducing emissions. Powered by research – impact for good.
Services we provide
Our proven home energy advice helps local households achieve year-round comfort and lower bills, with tailored solutions that won’t cost the earth, giving you confidence to act with impact.
Our service offering starts simple and steps up to higher value advisory and partnering opportunities.
Simple Starter - Tailored Tips consultation
Not sure where to start or just want to get an expert opinion?
Try booking a Tailored Tips consult to help you get oriented (30 – 60 minutes phone or online). Includes a questionnaire and emailed notes – perfect to test the water with advice you can act on now. If you need more detailed advice we can conveniently step up to Home Energy Pathways.
Home Energy Pathways Package
Ready to upgrade your energy future for good but need evidence for a clear confident path?
Our Home Energy Pathways Package is our core value service and includes a NatHERS Existing Homes rating with a report that presents an energy future pathway that you can follow with confidence.
NatHERS Existing Homes rating certificates
The Nationwide Home Energy Rating Scheme expanded in July 2025 to include ratings for Existing Homes. This will be the basis for mandatory disclosure of home energy ratings at the point of sale or lease. It is the future-ready tool of choice for guiding home upgrades.
Scorecard rating certificates
Need a Scorecard certificate for a green loan?
Michael is an accredited Scorecard assessor.
Bio
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Michael is grounded in 11 years of hands-on residential thermal comfort and energy efficiency research at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong.
Michael led a team of 15 home assessors on the Energy+Illawarra (Low Income Energy Efficiency Program) project where he had oversight of the home assessments and recommendations of tailored retrofits for 200 homes of low-income older residents of the Greater Illawarra and Southern Highlands regions. Indoor temperatures and energy bills were compared before and after the retrofits.
He has participated in many similar residential thermal comfort and energy efficiency research projects with 150 home energy assessments personally conducted, tailored retrofit advice implemented and monitored for 270 homes, assisted with 20 blower door tests for air tightness measurement.
He is an accredited NatHERS Existing Homes assessor and an accredited Scorecard assessor.
Michael is an experienced home energy advisor with a heart to listen with care to what you want and need for your home.
Based in Wildes Meadow, near Fitzroy Falls, NSW, his core service area includes the Southern Highlands and Greater Illawarra.
Project achievements
NatHERS Existing Homes -- Cohort 1 Trial
Michael participated in the first cohort of home energy assessors to be trained to trial the NatHERS Existing Homes benchmark rating tool -- Accurate Enterprise (Existing Homes), conducting 23 home assessments in the Southern Highlands, Illawarra and Forbes regions. He was the 7th assessor nationally to be accredited under this scheme.
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