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Free online calculator to count huge savings from going electric and quitting gas
Sophie Vorrath9 Jun 20230 comments

Free online tool will help households understand when and why to electrify everything – and how the humble hot water heat pump can crush power costs.

Solar, Battery/Storage, Electrification
“Beautiful,” ethical solar: 1komma5 begins delivery of high-end German rooftop module
Sophie Vorrath1 Jun 20230 comments

A new rooftop solar panel coming to Australia this year promises German-made quality, good looks, and high ethical standards.

Energy Efficiency, Electrification, Tariffs
Shop around to beat electricity price hikes? It’s not as easy as it should be
Lurion De Mello30 May 20230 comments

As electricity prices continue to rise, consumers are being told to shop around for the best deal. But where do you start? And how do you compare retailers?

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Solar, Electrification, News, Tariffs
AGL launches fund to install solar for hardship customers, help electrify homes
Sophie Vorrath29 May 20230 comments

AGL Energy bolsters efforts to improve energy affordability and protect those hardest hit by rising power prices, including through a rooftop solar fund.

Solar, Electrification, Policy
How to ensure renters can cash-in on rooftop solar as electricity prices rise again
Bjorn Sturmberg, Lee White & Mara Hammerle26 May 20230 comments

Further power price hikes will deepen the divide between solar haves and have-nots. New measures are needed to make sure renters can get in on the action.

Battery/Storage, Electrification, Featured, Policy, Solar
Home battery rush looms as rebates about to be replaced by zero interest loans
Sophie Vorrath24 May 20230 comments

Solar Homes battery rebate will close to applications in just over one month's time, as the scheme switches to a zero interest loan offering instead.

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Solar, Battery/Storage, Electric Vehicles, Electrification, Featured, News
Is your rooftop solar performing as well as it should? Data says… probably not
Sophie Vorrath18 May 20230 comments

Some 75% of residential rooftop solar systems are not passing on the full extent of electricity bill savings they are capable of delivering. Why – and what can be done?

Electrification, Energy Efficiency, News, Policy
Budget home energy funding a good start, but dwarfed by the scale of the task
Trivess Moore & Ralph Horne11 May 20230 comments

If we assume most of our existing homes are below-par on energy performance, we will need to retrofit to more than 45 homes every hour between now and 2050.

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