Real numbers. Plain English. No sales pitch.
Most home energy advice is either too vague to act on or written by someone trying to sell you something. Decode Energy is built differently.
I spent over a decade as an energy manager, helping organisations cut millions of dollars off their energy bills. The same approach that worked there — measure what matters, fix the things that pay back, ignore the things that don't — works just as well for homes and small businesses. It just rarely gets written down in plain English.
So I started writing it down. Decode Energy guides and tools are built to do the same four things: help you understand how you use energy, quickly identify where the savings are, assess what each one's actually worth, and act on the ones that pay off. Guides give you typical figures for your country — useful for a quick read-through and a clear shortlist. The interactive tools (in the works) go a step further, tailoring the results based on your inputs so the numbers are yours, not an average.
When something isn't worth the money, we say so. When a "must-have" upgrade has a 20-year payback, we say that too. That's the whole point.
Right now you'll find guides for Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, with New Zealand, Canada, Germany and South Africa to follow. Small business editions and the interactive tools are in the works.
Thanks for stopping by.
— Ewan