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Local Government Energy Management and ESG Reporting
Location: Greater Perth Region
Project Type: Emissions Management and Reporting
Year: 2025-26
Practice Capital works with local government clients, including the City of Perth, City of Rockingham, City of Melville, and Town of Bassendean, to deliver practical energy management and sustainability reporting outcomes in partnership with our technology partner, CCR. The program enables rapid data ingestion in weeks, not months, combining tariff review, live data monitoring, IoT-enabled measurement, and seamless reporting aligned to recognised ESG frameworks including CDP, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and GRI.
The platform gives councils immediate visibility over energy performance, operational faults, and optimisation opportunities across complex asset portfolios. Live monitoring can identify issues that would otherwise remain hidden, such as a solar array being offline for months before maintenance review, while deeper parametric analysis supports functional optimisation across high-consumption sites such as aquatic centres, including energy use, plant performance, and water temperature management. This turns sustainability reporting into an operational performance system, helping councils reduce waste, improve resilience, and make more defensible investment and maintenance decisions.
Multi-site restaurant energy demand reduction
Location: Perth suburbs (various)
Project Type: Energy Assessments
Year: 2026
Working with one of Australia's top three fast-food chains and have recently completed a pilot across several of their sites. The results uncovered significant energy, cost and emissions savings opportunities.
Using advanced energy intelligence and monitoring technology and novel refrigerants, the pilot delivered measurable outcomes including reduced peak demand, lower energy consumption and improved visibility into asset-level performance. The results have been sufficiently compelling that a broader national rollout is now under consideration, with potential international application being explored.
What makes this particularly interesting is that many of the savings opportunities identified were previously invisible through conventional utility metering. By analysing energy consumption at a much more granular level, the business was able to identify operational inefficiencies, validate equipment performance and establish a repeatable pathway for ongoing savings.
Aged Care Energy Reduction Project
Location: East Perth
Project Type: Energy Assessment
Year: 2026
The Aged Care Energy Reduction Project demonstrates how targeted energy optimisation can deliver measurable financial and environmental returns without compromising resident experience. The project identified $58,058 in annual savings, a 3.1-year payback period, 78 tonnes of annual CO₂e emissions reduction, and $580,580 in undiscounted value over ten years. Importantly, these outcomes were achieved with no operational disruption, allowing residents to experience improved comfort rather than upheaval.
The project provides a practical and replicable model for energy reduction across government and community assets. It shows that sustainability initiatives can produce verified financial returns while also reducing emissions, improving asset performance, and strengthening the evidence base for future investment decisions. By using clear visual data and practical implementation pathways, the project builds confidence that energy efficiency can be delivered as a commercial, environmental, and human outcome.
Student Accommodation Energy Optimisation Project
Location: Perth
Project Type: Energy Assessment
Year: 2026
The second case study, a 39-storey student accommodation facility in Perth, demonstrates that Practice Capital’s energy optimisation methodology is replicable across different building types and operating environments. Using a similar optimisation bundle, the project focused on common-area HVAC and base-load visibility, lighting controls, water management, and improved renewable energy utilisation. The estimated business case identified $97,000 in annual recurring savings, a 3.9-year payback period, and 160 tonnes of annual CO₂e emissions reduction. Over ten years, the project is expected to deliver approximately $900,000 in value, with cumulative savings exceeding $1 million when a 3% annual utility escalation is applied.
Importantly, even in a relatively modern building of 3 years there are savings, using the strength of the underlying methodology. The case study validates the approach across facility types, from aged care and student accommodation to hospitals, schools, public housing, and other government or community assets, showing that well-targeted energy optimisation can consistently deliver strong financial, environmental, and operational outcomes.
Town of Victoria Park Carbon Literacy Essentials Training
Location: Victoria Park
Project Type: Carbon Literacy Training
Year: 2025
Practice Capital successfully delivered Carbon Literacy Essentials training to Town of Victoria Park staff in November 2025, with participants drawn from Environment, Parks, Waste, Grants, Depot Operations, and Projects. The program received exceptionally positive feedback, with participants rating overall satisfaction between 8/10 and 10/10 and reporting significant increases in climate literacy, understanding of carbon emissions, and confidence discussing climate change and carbon-related issues.
The evaluation found that the training materially improved climate literacy, confidence, and action-readiness across participating teams. Participants identified practical actions including reducing personal energy use, increasing public transport use, reducing waste, improving circular economy outcomes, integrating emissions reduction into operational and project planning, and supporting implementation of the Town’s Climate Emergency Plan. All participants agreed that additional Town staff would benefit from the training, and the likelihood of recommending the program to other organisations was rated between 8/10 and 10/10, supporting expansion to broader staff and community audiences.
AASB S2 Climate Reporting
Location: Perth
Project Type: AASB S2 Reporting
Year: 2026
Practice Capital supported CCR in assisting an organisation with $1.2 billion of assets under management to undertake an AASB S2-aligned climate risk and resilience assessment, develop an adaptation roadmap, and produce disclosure-ready outputs. The project showed that the core challenge was not access to climate data, but converting detailed climate projections into usable, decision-ready insights that could support compliance, asset planning, and executive decision-making. By aligning climate scenarios to asset behaviour, operational realities, and financial exposure, the assessment helped translate complex risk information into concise narratives and practical actions.
A key finding was that climate risk is shaped not only by exposure to hazards, but by resilience, safeguards, interdependencies, and the decisions already embedded in asset management. Assessment boundaries were critical, as the inclusion of assets, supply-side dependencies, and operational interdependencies directly influenced the risk profile. Scenario analysis across lower and higher warming futures helped show how risk evolves over time, while linking risks to value-at-risk moved the assessment beyond narrative disclosure into quantifiable business impact. The result was a practical framework for understanding climate risk, prioritising adaptation, and building defensible AASB S2-aligned disclosure.