Energy Assessment Services

Standard Consultation, Analysis & Report Services

On-Grid Solar Power & Battery Consultation & Report

Get Independent Advice when installing a New Solar Power System or Upgrading an Existing System with More Solar Panels or a Battery (possibly to meet Additional Demand because you want to Get Off Gas / Go All-Electric).

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Off-Grid/Standalone Load Assessment Consultation & Report

Consultation and Report considering:

Assessment of Your Seasonal Electricity Load
Ways to Minimize Your Seasonal Electricity Load
Sizing of Solar Panel and Battery Capacities
Energy Flows for a Range of Appropriate Solar Panel and Battery Capacities
Backup Generator Runtime for a Range of Solar Panel and Battery Capacities
Features to ask for from your Installer to ensure a Convenient User Experience

On-Grid Battery-Backup Assessment Report

How long would your Solar Power System give you:

If you added a 5 kWh, a 10 kWh or a 20 kWh Battery ?
On the Average Day in sunny Summer vs cloudy Winter ?
If there was a Mains Grid Outage at 2 am ?

Before you invest in an Expensive Battery Backup System: Make sure it is Big Enough to do the Job ... but not Larger than you need to pay for ...

On-Grid Solar Performance Assessment Report

Get Independent Analysis of the Data to establish whether your Existing Solar Power (and Battery) System is performing as it should be.

This Report is CURRENTLY *NOT* AVAILABLE as we are making improvements to our Analysis & Presentation Tools for this Report.

On-Grid Solar Feed-In Tariff Comparison Report

Get Independent Analysis of your Smart Meter Data to establish whether the Solar Feed-In Tariff (FiT) that you are receiving for you Solar Export back to the Mains Grid - Variable Rate vs Flat Rate - offers the Best Earnings for your Actual Solar Generation Profile.

This Report is CURRENTLY *NOT* AVAILABLE because the Victorian Government no longer promotes Variable Rate Solar Feed-In as an alternative to Flat Rate Solar Feed-In Tariffs ... and the Victorian Government's Mandated Mininum Solar Feed-in Tariff has been (since July 2025) so low as to be a Rounding Error.

If this Report does become relevant again, part or all of it, might be made available as a Free Online Tool ...

Custom Data Analysis, Summarization & Visualization Reports

Do you have Time Series Interval Data from a Smart Meter, Solar Inverter, Battery Management System or Datalogger ... and help need to:

Make sense of what it is telling you about your Energy Usage ?
Find opportunities to Reduce Costs by gaining insight into Peak Demand ?
Model Hypothetical Changes to your Energy Demand Profile ?
Produce Written Reports with Custom Summarization and Data Visualizations ?

Custom Data Cleaning, Conversion and Reformatting

Do you have Time Series Interval Data from a Smart Meter, Solar Inverter, Battery Management System or Datalogger ... and help need to:

Clean it to remove any Corrupt Data ?
Replace Missing Time Series Data with Reasonable Approximations ?
Convert Data soured as JSON into CSV for use in Spreadsheets ?
Set up Custom Summarization and Data Visualizations ?

Victorian Residential Efficiency Scorecard & NatHERS

Central Highlands Energy Assessments currently does ** NOT ** act as an Accredited Victorian Residential Efficiency Scorecard nor an Accredited NatHERS Assessor.

There are other Accredited Victorian Residential Efficiency Scorecard and/or an Accredited NatHERS Assessors in Victoria local to the Central Highlands, Ballarat, Hepburn Shire - eg. Dale Boucher (Boucher Consultancy), Tim Drylie.

Energy Audits under Australian Standard AS/NZS 3598:2014

Central Highlands Energy Assessments currently does ** NOT ** offer Energy Audits are standardized under Australian Standard AS/NZS 3598:2014 (Category Type 1 (Basic), Type 2 (Detailed), and Type 3 (Precision)) to identify broad wide-ranging energy-saving opportunities. Conducting an Energy Audit under Australian Standard AS/NZS 3598:2014 is a worthy thing to do ... but doing so requires producing a substantial Report Document specifically designed to comply with that Standard ... and these Costs are not always what a Customer wants.

Focus on Purchasing Decisions for Solar Power & Electrical Appliances

Central Highlands Energy Assessments instead provides narrow but deep Assessments focused on making Purchasing Decisions for Solar Power and Batteries based on Analysis of Time Series Interval Data for Electricity Usage.

Central Highlands Energy Assessments has particular expertise is in the Numerial Analysis of Time Series Interval Data allowing the matching of Current/Actual and Hypothetical/Modelled Electricity Usage to Supply needed for making Informed Purchasing Decisions when Getting Off Gas / Going All Electric and/or Adding Solar Panels with or without a Battery.