MAC Energy Efficiency Group

With all the fuss over increasing Gas generation, we're focussed on how can we do More with Less.. so let me introduce you to Energy Efficiency, one of the largest job generating (per spend) industries in Australia.

What is Energy Efficiency? This short animation explains how energy efficiency works and what programs are available around Australia to help you save energy for your home and business.

What a year with this MACnificent team!

Thank you to every one of our hard-working crew who spend thousands of hours desktop auditing, creating training animations and clamouring up ladders inspecting sites, but most of all, helping us ensure that we always deliver the MAC Standard in everything we do.

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“When in doubt, send them out” this our motto when it comes to desktop audits not passing the ‘sniff test’.

It’s a fundamental quality assurance measure that a business has access to inspectors who are ready to pop out to a site to give an unbiased report on the work that has taken place.

This skilled, independent reporting holds your contractors to account and ensures that your work is compliant, meeting all Regulations and Code requirements.

However, finding those inspectors can be hard and expensive to have on full time, this is where MAC comes in.

MAC auditors are:

✔️ Police checked
✔️ Uniformed and ID tagged
✔️ First Aid trained
✔️ Hold a minimum Cert IV in Workplace Health and Safety
✔️ Working at Heights Accredited; and
✔️ Have comprehensive compliance and regulation training

Our auditors don't simply cover the minimum requirements but provide extensive reporting with geotagged photographs and recommendations that outline industry best practice.

We have auditors Australia wide so get in touch and we'll talk you through just how straight forward it is.

Recently the ACT announced extending the EEIS out to 2030 and NSW are extending the ESS to 2050!

The great news is that there is a larger focus on the benefits that demand response, grid energy management & load balancing can provide for the NEM under these initiatives.

Did you know that energy efficiency measures in buildings could achieve over 50% of the Australian Governments 2030 energy productivity targets?

Many businesses can bring down their own costs while improving system reliability and helping balance supply and demand.

We are excited to see this industry continue to flourish and look forward to working with Australian businesses to help them carry out their work in accordance with the regulations and targets.

💡 A recent report by Emerald Planet states that 21A contributed the highest number of VEECs created across all activities under the VEU scheme last month!

💡 That's massive!

💡 On this ‘bright’ note we have a module in our EEIQ platform to help train your teams on 21A. It covers best practice procedures on how to install and even covers ACL (Australian Consumer Law) requirements. It’s not just relevant to the Installers doing the work but your office team too. Lead generators, call-center support and marketing teams will all benefit from learning about 21A and ACL, it’s online and fun to watch!

💡 Get in touch for more info and we can have you sitting the course in no time.

Great News! our Director, Merrily Hunter has been elected to the board of the Energy Efficiency Council (EEC).

The EEC is an association dedicated to the progression of smart energy policy in Australia. Merrily is incredibly passionate about the critical work that the EEC undertakes and is looking forward to offering her 20 years of expertise to the Board. Merrily is a person of action, one of her more note-able quotes was:

“I am not here to quietly fill a seat, nor a diversity quota... I am here to ask the hard questions and build on what the EEC has already successfully created”

Congrats Merrily! Your passion and knowledge will offer so much to the EEC & esteemed individuals you will share the board with.

Remember when you were at school and you would read about a maths problem in a textbook and your teacher would talk about it? Remember how damn hard it was to grasp?

You'd just kind of sit there squinting and trying to get your head around it. Then the teacher would show you how to work it out on the board or in your workbook. 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 it made sense. You had to see it!

Tradespeople have learnt their trade visually, on-site and through experience. If you are trying to teach your team something via email or slides in a classroom and wondering why it doesn’t work.. think twice about your communication choice”

Imagine a way you could simply 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀 them a real example in a really easy to understand way. That exists. It's called EEIQ.

Working in the Energy Efficiency industry, we can sometimes lose sight of why this industry exists & what we are all aiming for. This is a great image that demonstrates each State’s emissions and renewable energy goals by when. ⁠
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Great to see ACT & TAS aiming for 100% renewable energy in just the next few years! ⁠🌏⁠
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Thank you to the Green Building Council Australia & Property Council of Australia for putting such a great report together. This chart in particular really stood out! ⁠

Here's a direct link to the report:https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2095495/_Communications/Advocacy/Submissions/SUSTAINABILITY/Executive_summary_v10.pdf
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Incorrect BCA (building code) class selections are something that people often miss when carrying out Commercial Lighting upgrades.

Our latest module on Commercial Lighting covers some great tips and considerations when doing CL upgrades.

🎃 😱 Here’s something that’ll spook you if haven’t given feedback on REES yet!

Tomorrow is the deadline to get in your feedback on the REES Directions paper. If you operate in South Australia as an energy Retailer or Activity Provider now is your chance to share your views on the future direction of the REES.

Ever had a 'lightbulb' moment? [pun intended]. ⁠
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We have too. It happened when we were chatting with an AP (activity provider) at an event and they told us how much time and effort goes into logging, training, tracking & measuring their tradies to keep them skilled up and across codes, regulations, and best practice. ⁠
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*Cue lightbulb moment*⁠
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What if we used all of our years of knowledge to create an online training tool so they can get up to speed from anywhere at any time and we give you a tool that logs it all for you too? ⁠
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So EEIQ was born. Get in touch to learn more. ⁠

What a whirlwind couple of days we had this week meeting and hearing from so many industry experts!


In a world full of pessimism, it was lovely to be surrounded by so many optimists about the future of energy efficiency in Australia. We are excited to be part of the change in this dynamic industry.


A massive thank you to all of those who shared such interest and signed up for EEIQ, we couldn’t be happier seeing the excitement that our tradie-training platform generated!


Thank you to the EEC for hosting another great event bringing together thought leaders from all over Australia. @ Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)