For business
What you’d save a year, what the fix costs, how fast it pays back — and whether it’s yours to fix or your landlord’s. One guide covers every site you run in that industry.
Every energy use in a café, priced. What you'd save a year, what the fix costs, how fast it pays back — and whether it's yours to fix or your landlord's.
Roughly half a building's energy sits inside your tenancy. This prices every bit of it — what you'd save, what it costs, how fast it pays back, and who controls it.
Instant PDF download · one-off payment · free corrections to the 2026 edition.
Rent is fixed. Wages are fixed. Suppliers put their prices up and you wear it.
Your energy bill is different — it’s full of decisions, and most businesses have never had anyone look at theirs properly.
The guides on this page cover what you can do yourself. If you’d rather someone did it for you, here’s exactly what that costs — every price on the table, because “it depends” is not a price.
Our sweet spot is businesses spending $100,000 to $4 million a year on energy — enough that energy is real money, not enough to justify a full-time energy manager. Smaller than that? You’re welcome here too: the guides, the free check and the subscription services carry most of the value at that size, and they’re built to.
Free · no obligation
Send a recent bill. You’ll get a straight answer on three things:
No cost. No obligation. No sales call unless you ask for one.
If there’s nothing worth doing, we’ll tell you that — and that’s the end of it.
info@decodeenergy.com.au
Multiple sites, negotiated contracts or interval data? The deep version is $950, fixed — and every dollar of it comes off any service you engage within 90 days.
We only carry risk one way. No-win-no-fee applies when we take the risk of finding nothing. Once money’s been found and measured, you get fixed prices — or the template to claim it yourself, free.
The fee-payback rule. We don’t sell a service whose fee we don’t reasonably expect you to recover within about 12 months. If your situation doesn’t clear that bar, we’ll tell you — and point you at the $99 guide instead.
Plenty of “energy advice” in Australia is lead generation — free assessments that somehow always conclude you need the thing the assessor sells. We don’t sell hardware, we don’t take referral fees, and we’re not paid to reach any particular answer. The only person paying us is you, which is the only way the advice can be worth anything.
It’s the line we lead the whole business with, and you can check it: our published guides mark the upgrades that don’t pay back, with the working shown. A solar quote that doesn’t stack up gets told it doesn’t stack up. It’s also now a pricing policy — see the fee-payback rule above.
Most consultants hand you a proposal and ask you to trust the numbers. We publish ours. The hour-by-hour models behind our EV and battery articles are free to download, with every assumption and source listed, specifically so you can pull them apart. When our own review found errors in one, we fixed it and said so in public.
That’s the standard the paid work is held to as well.
Ewan Willcox — 15 years in commercial and industrial energy management, with a BE (Hons) in Renewable Energy Engineering, and formerly a Certified Energy Manager.
The same approach used to strip millions in energy costs out of large organisations, sized down for a business like yours. A café’s bill has fewer zeros than a factory’s; the discipline that finds the money is identical.
You deal with him directly — there’s no account manager between you and the person doing the work.
No — we don’t sell or install anything, and take no commissions. If solar stacks up for your site we’ll say so and tell you what to ask installers for. If it doesn’t, we’ll say that instead, which happens plenty.
It’s all on this page — the health check is free, recovery is 40% of what lands and nothing otherwise, and everything else has its price or starting price published above. The only things quoted individually are the ones that genuinely vary with your site, and those get quoted before anything starts, in writing.
Then you pay nothing on the free check and the recovery work, and we’ll tell you your bills are clean — which is genuinely useful to know.
Then you owe us nothing on recovery work. We carry that risk, not you — that’s the whole point of working on contingency.
Not at present — we’re not currently registered for GST, so none is added to our fees. If that changes we’ll confirm it in writing before it affects anything you’ve agreed to.
Not for the free check. Recovery work starts with a short no-win-no-fee agreement — signed before we look at anything, so the terms are settled before anyone knows what the bills hold. A letter of authority comes later, only if there’s something worth taking to your retailer, and we’ll explain exactly what it covers first.
By invoice, bank transfer. Fixed-fee projects under $5,000 take a 50% deposit; larger work bills by milestone; subscriptions are monthly; recovery is nothing-up-front, always.
The health check is quick. Recovery depends on how fast your retailer moves, which is not something anyone can promise. The bigger pieces depend on how many sites and how much data exists — we’ll tell you the honest timeline before you commit, not after.
The guides cover five markets, but the paid work is Australian only for now — tariffs, rebates and market rules are country-specific, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
Send a recent bill. We’ll tell you whether there’s money on the table — and if there isn’t, we’ll tell you that too.
Email a bill →Every other service starts from there.