Clients don’t go shopping for an emissions platform. They ask their accountant what to do.
An agency proposal. Your clients get a defensible Scope 2 position through one interface. Your firm keeps the engagement, and takes a recurring share of what they spend.
PATtech Limited · Auckland & Sydney
Prepared for advisory leadership · September 2026
Commercial in confidence
Why clients are about to ask you about this
Electricity is the biggest number in your clients’ emissions, and the hardest one to stand behind
They are being asked
Banks, listed customers, tender panels and insurers now want electricity emissions as a condition of the relationship.
The usual answer doesn’t hold
An annual average, or a certificate from midday solar standing behind consumption at 8pm on a winter evening. Anyone checking can see the gap.
It is now automated
Interval data flows in on its own and matches hour by hour. The position is live all year instead of rebuilt from invoices each March.
The work that used to take a consultant three weeks now runs by itself.
Why it lands on your desk
As emissions reporting becomes a standardised process, accounting firms are positioned to be the trusted advisers
Accountants already hold the trust
When a bank or a customer sends a client an emissions question, the first call is to the accountant — not to an energy broker and not to a software vendor.
Accountants already sell the work around it
Reporting, assurance readiness, disclosure and transition planning are advisory lines the firm already has. This is the missing piece of infrastructure underneath them.
PATtech has no ambition to build a direct sales force into the small and mid-market. That market is reached through its accountants, which is why we are proposing an agency rather than a referral fee.
What the client actually buys
One interface that turns a power bill into a defensible Scope 2 report
Hourly Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin — serialised certificates anchored to the settlement interval in which the generation physically happened — matched automatically against the client’s own interval consumption.
Load profile, automated
Interval data connects once and keeps flowing. No spreadsheets, no annual reconstruction, no consultant rebuilding a year from invoices.
Matched hour by hour
Certificates are acquired and matched against each interval of actual consumption, continuously rather than once a year.
Recorded and serialised
Every certificate retired against the client, with a full audit trail built to connect into a statutory registry wherever one operates.
Reported on demand
A market-based Scope 2 position an auditor can follow, current at any date, exportable into the client’s reporting.
PATtech does not sell electricity and does not compete with the client’s retailer or with government registries. It is reporting infrastructure — which is why it belongs with the accountant rather than the energy broker.
How it works, and what stays yours
The firm holds the client. We hold the plumbing.
The firm is the adviser
Clients onboard under the firm’s agent code. The firm advises on what to buy and how to report it, bills that work at its own rates, and keeps every dollar of it.
PATtech does not advise your clients
A non-circumvention term in the agent agreement: we will not market advisory services to, or accept a direct advisory engagement from, a client introduced under the firm’s code.
The firm sits in front
Onboarding is co-branded, the firm is the named adviser on the account, and support escalates through the firm first. The client experiences their accountant delivering a capability.
PATtech runs the platform
Matching, transfer, retirement records, settlement and the evidence trail — built to connect into a statutory registry, not to be one. Plus training, material and second-line support for the firm.
Attribution is recorded at onboarding. The firm is paid on every client it introduces, for as long as that client stays on the platform, whether or not the firm keeps introducing new ones.
An example revenue share model
Nothing to build, nothing to carry
Platform access
$49.99 per client account, per month
Tenant sub-account
$9.99 per tenancy ledger, per month
Certification
$0.50 per MWh certified
Transfer
$0.50 per MWh transferred
Retirement
$0.20 per MWh retired
Emissions statement
$99.99 per statement issued
Terms: fifty-fifty on every line. Settlement monthly in arrears. No exclusivity either way, no minimum volume, and no cost to the firm to begin. Generator-side fees are not part of the share, so the firm earns only on what its own clients pay.
An illustrative model at indicative fee levels, in NZD, not a published rate card. Australian pricing to be set in AUD. The split and the fee levels are the substance of the conversation we would like to have.
Run it across the client book
Move the sliders
Opens on a mid-sized book: 250 client accounts, a hundred tenancy ledgers across the property clients, and a quarter of the book assured each year. Move any slider to test the shape of your own client base.
Where one client becomes forty
Property portfolios: a landlord buys once and on-charges to every tenancy
Landlord buys
Certificates matched against the building’s whole-of-site interval load.
Allocated by tenancy
Each tenancy’s share of each hour, calculated from its own sub-metered load.
Tenant claims
Certificates retire against the tenancy and cannot be claimed again by the landlord.
| One office tower · 12,000 MWh · 40 tenancies | Basis | One building | Portfolio of 15 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform access | Site account | $299.94 | $4,499 |
| Tenant sub-accounts | 40 tenancies per building | $2,397.60 | $35,964 |
| Certification | Whole of site | $3,000.00 | $45,000 |
| Transfer to tenants | 85% of load on-charged | $2,550.00 | $38,250 |
| Retirement | Volume retired against claims | $1,200.00 | $18,000 |
| To the firm, per year | Recurring | $9,447.54 | $141,713 |
And the landlord makes money too: on-charging at a $3/MWh margin returns $30,600 per building per year, turning a green lease obligation into a billable service.
Illustrative modelling at the fee levels on the previous page, not a forecast. Sub-metered or embedded-network sites; allocation follows each tenancy’s interval data, not floor area.