On 1 May 2014, Sustainability Victoria introduced an online platform to allow FirstRate5 to move to a fee-per-certificate model. This enabled FirstRate5 to recover its own costs, and allowed Home Energy Rating data to be collected in a central repository. In 2012 it was estimated that FirstRate5 accounted for 95% of all Home Energy Ratings carried out in Victoria and 45% of those carried out in Australia. This data is a rich store of information on new and existing Australian dwellings in a searchable database.

Sustainability Victoria (SV) is pleased to release the FirstRate5 data analysis report. The report presents the results of an analysis of Home Energy Ratings certified for the 2014/15 financial year and will form the baseline for future reports. The analysis approach is based on questions developed by SV following discussion with industry and government in Victoria.