Why did Wattly's relocation to LaunchPad represent a strategic shift for both organizations?
Wattly's move to LaunchPad, where our offices are located, enabled the two organizations to work much more closely together despite the modest 300-meter physical distance. This co-location allowed them to combine Wattly's innovative tools for creating environmental certificates with our extensive consulting expertise in industrial and commercial energy efficiency. The partnership aims to provide clients with more comprehensive and valuable assistance by integrating certificate strategy with energy optimization consulting and project delivery.
What are the complementary strengths that Wattly and Northmore Gordon bring to energy projects?
We provide extensive industrial and commercial energy efficiency consulting experience, including energy audits, measurement and verification, and investment case development. Wattly specializes in innovative tools for creating environmental certificates. Together, they address the full project lifecycle: We identify opportunities and build business cases, while Wattly's certificate tools help clients capture financial value through schemes like Victorian Energy Upgrades, NSW ESS, and ACCU projects. This integration allows clients to understand both technical feasibility and commercial viability in a coordinated way.
How does the partnership support clients pursuing environmental certificates through Victorian Energy Upgrades or similar schemes?
The partnership enables clients to access both the technical assessment and the certificate pathway from coordinated teams. We can conduct energy audits, develop investment cases, and establish measurement and verification plans that align with scheme requirements. Wattly's tools then support project registration, certificate creation, and trading. This coordination ensures that eligibility assumptions, evidence gathering, and financial projections are aligned from the planning phase through certificate issuance, reducing timing risks and improving the likelihood of capturing available incentives.
What does Northmore Gordon's delivery approach contribute to certificate projects?
We employ a six-stage delivery approach: Assess (identify opportunities), Build the Case (develop feasibility), Capture Value (assess funding and certificate pathways), Deliver (implement and verify), Procure (manage energy and environmental attributes), and Perform (sustain outcomes). This structure ensures that certificate eligibility and commercial assumptions are assessed early, before equipment commitments are made. By connecting technical assessment with commercial decisions and ongoing performance, the approach reduces the risk of projects losing certificate eligibility due to poor timing or incomplete evidence gathering.
How can clients use Northmore Gordon and Wattly together to de-risk energy investment decisions?
Clients can present investment cases with and without conditional certificate support, understanding which projects are worthwhile on operating merit alone. Our investment case guidance separates energy savings, maintenance benefits, and certificate revenue as distinct benefit streams. Wattly's tools help quantify certificate quantity and commercial assumptions early. Together, this approach makes it possible to model what happens if certificate eligibility, price assumptions, or timing change—allowing management to make resilient decisions that do not rely entirely on unconfirmed incentives.
What types of industrial and commercial sites can benefit from the Northmore Gordon and Wattly partnership?
Our service scope includes industrial facilities, commercial buildings, and utilities. The partnership can support energy efficiency improvements in manufacturing, food and beverage processing, animal processing, buildings, water utilities, and other sectors. Potential certificate pathways include solar and renewable projects (STCs, LGCs), heating and cooling upgrades (Victorian Energy Upgrades, NSW ESS), and emissions reductions (ACCU projects). By combining our sector-specific consulting with Wattly's certificate tools, clients across these sectors can identify opportunities and translate them into funded and verified projects.
What should organizations prepare before approaching the Northmore Gordon and Wattly partnership?
Organizations should prepare a project brief that identifies the business problem, site location, decision deadline, existing equipment, project stage, available energy data, and any prior incentive or certificate arrangements. This brief should distinguish measured information from estimates and clarify whether work is still at the idea stage, under contract, or already commissioned. Having this information ready enables the partnership to establish an appropriate scope quickly, assess eligibility assumptions, and identify which evidence must be gathered before equipment changes remove the baseline data.
How does the co-location of Wattly and Northmore Gordon improve project timing and evidence coordination?
Co-location allows the teams to align on project timing decisions early, ensuring that measurement and evidence-gathering milestones are coordinated with certificate-pathway requirements. Many schemes have strict timing prerequisites: for example, ACCU newness rules and Victorian Energy Upgrades requirements depend on when specific commitments are made. By working together in the same office, the teams can review chronologies, identify risks, and adjust project schedules before costly mistakes occur—such as proceeding with equipment changes before establishing a proper baseline for measurement and verification.
