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title: 'About me'
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date: '2018-04-25'
description: 'Richard is a freelance consultant, author and presenter with particular interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has masters degrees in both Engineering (Electronics) and Environment (Energy Efficiency). He was a key author of the 2013 Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan and has bee…'
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# About me

![rk2012small](https://newenergythinking.com/user/pages/02.about-me/images/rk2012small.jpg)

Richard is a freelance consultant, author and presenter with particular interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has masters degrees in both Engineering (Electronics) and Environment (Energy Efficiency). He was a key author of the 2013 [Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan](http://bze.org.au/buildings-plan/) and has been published many times in Renew's publications on topics related to energy efficiency. Richard and his wife live in Cape Paterson in [their certified Passive House](https://newenergythinking.com/series-straithouse/).

![](https://newenergythinking.com/user/pages/02.about-me/images/20210214_205004-1-1024x576.jpg)

Richard is the author of the 2015 '[The Energy Freedom Home](https://shop.ata.org.au/shop/the-energy-freedom-home)' published by [Scribe](https://www.scribepublications.com.au/). The book builds on the work done in the [Buildings Plan](http://bze.org.au/buildings-plan/) which had many other contributors.

![EFH_cover lores](https://newenergythinking.com/user/pages/02.about-me/images/efh_cover-lores.png)

You can find me on LinkedIn [here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-keech-4a19703/).

I'm co-moderator at [My Efficient Electric Home](https://www.facebook.com/groups/996387660405677/).

Here's a [list](http://newenergythinking.com/publications/) of my published articles and papers.

Here's a [list](https://newenergythinking.com/list-of-blog-posts/) of my blog posts.

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