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Efficiency and solar: existential threat or business opportunity for utilities

Recent drops in energy use and the rapid uptake of solar have led to growing concerns among energy utilities that customers will abandon the grid leading to a 'utility death spiral'. But smart utilities are increasingly viewing efficiency and solar as a business opportunity and a new cloud-based platform could offer them the tool to deliver retrofits at scale.

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June, 2017

Community Energy Blitz: how city councils and community groups can lead the energy transition

Increasingly, councils and community groups are seeking to promote energy efficiency and solar PV within their local community, however most lack the tools or resources to implement large-scale programs. A new platform from Ecologic Apps can help retrofit households and businesses at scale.

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May, 2017

Ecologic moves beyond the home

We are excited to announce that the Ecologic audit and retrofit platform now supports a much wider range of property types including commercial offices and retail.

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April, 2017

New Feature: Solar PV Optimisation

Ecologic Apps are excited to announce a world-first tool to assist with the complex decision of sizing solar PV systems.

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March, 2017

New tool released for assessing solar hot water

Are you interested in solar hot water? Ecologic can give you accurate estimates of how much money you'll save based on your actual circumstances.

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February, 2017

Statistical, dynamical, integral: the three waves of ecohacking

One of the most exciting developments in the energy sector in recent years has been the emergence of 'ecohacking'. Beginning around 5 years ago, we've witnessed the emergence of a swathe of companies applying the latest web technology to drive the uptake of energy efficiency and renewables.

Here we characterise the emergence of ecohacking as three waves to paint a picture of the broad waves of innovation that have occured while offering our vision for the sector.

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January, 2017

Energy action guides launched

Ecologic Apps recently released a new set of guides to assist you with acting on your personalised energy saving plan.

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December, 2016

New tool released for building energy professionals

Ecologic Apps are excited to announce a new product, Ecologic Pro, to enable energy auditors and building performance professionals to provide rapid simulation-driven audits and retrofit assessments.

November, 2016

Ecologic Apps for Professionals

In this post we explore how a range of professionals will be able to apply our platform to strengthen their business, including energy auditors, architects, builders and energy saving product providers.

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October, 2016

Ecologic Apps - Where We're Going

In our previous post, we explained the untapped potential of energy efficiency or 'energy efficiency gap'.

In this post we'll introduce our recently released energy auditing platform and why we think it could be a game-changer.

July, 2016