Cool Communities – Program Design and Technical Consultancy

EnergyConsult was the project manager and principal consultant conducting program design and providing technical advice for a national program being sponsored by the Australian Greenhouse Office that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector through community-based projects. The project developed an overarching framework to implement and measure a range of greenhouse gas abatement actions at the household level and develop specific quantifiable actions for individual communities to undertake to achieve behaviour change and household greenhouse gas abatement.  Community projects developed ranged from HERS attached to “green” home loans, energy efficiency retrofits, to community waste management projects. EnergyConsult also designed and implemented a greenhouse emissions abatement measurement system and analysed the first two years of data.

Client: Australian Greenhouse Office