Seven companies will receive grants to deliver bulk solar panel and hot water system installations to vulnerable households and support the switch away from gas.
Companies get funding to deliver solar and heat pumps to vulnerable households
Electrification
“A basic right:” Why energy for cooking, heating and cooling should be free
A leading energy researcher calls on the government to provide free energy for essential services
Switch to electric heat pump heating and avoid freezing with gas
Rather than freezing through a gas shortage, we can get our homes off gas, be safer, healthier and more comfortable, and ease our cost of living.
New York high-rise uses heat pumps and waste heat to cut fossil fuels
The cutting-edge, state-backed project could be a model for other big buildings sprinting to comply with the city’s building decarbonisation law.
Governments tip $63 million into electrification, efficiency for thousands in social housing
Federal and state governments announce $63.2 million partnership designed to provide energy upgrades for remote and regional social housing properties.
How ‘a suburban dad’ made his house carbon negative and even displaces other people’s fossil fuels
Motivated by wanting to show what householders can achieve, Brody Kenrick upgraded his house to generate clean energy for the grid, reduce emissions and make money for his family.
How batteries on wheels and bidirectional EV charging could kill VPPs
The energy market is relying on consumers signing up to virtual power plants. What if they're wrong?
Sun taxes and surprise tariffs: Why alienate consumers right when we need them most?
Two recent energy market developments show we’re still a long way from where we need to be on consumer engagement and integration of home solar and battery storage.
Households give power companies a fail on value for money, trustworthiness
Consumers think gas and electricity companies offer worse value than supermarkets, a survey shows, as regulators and energy bosses gather for a summit.
Electric lawn mowers and solar panels could be “gateways” to home electrification
US survey finds fhe best way to get people to electrify everything might be getting them to electrify something — anything at all.
Victoria is raising rental efficiency standards – it’s good news for tenants and the environment
Victorian government's proposed new minimum standards will greatly improve quality and comfort of rental housing. They will also make it cheaper to live in.
Talks underway to set minimum standards for “very energy inefficient” rental properties
Consultation on new minimum energy efficiency standards for rental properties opens door to major bill savings for renters and vulnerable.
Promised $1 billion in home energy upgrades yet to reach a single household
The $1 billion allocated to Australia's green bank for household energy upgrades is yet to reach a single home, a senate budget hearing has been told.
New government grants to help business ditch gas for efficient electric alternatives
New scheme offers up to $60,000 per site – or $66,000 for regional sites – for feasibility studies into cutting gas usage by switching to efficient electric alternatives.
State energy efficiency rebates to focus on electrification and getting homes off gas
State budgets $5.9m for strategic review of long-running energy efficiency rebate, to focus it on helping households and businesses to get off gas.
Ban on solar “nuisance marketing” extends to energy upgrade cold-calls and door-knocking
Participants in the Victorian Energy Upgrades scheme are now banned from unsolicited telemarketing, and face a ban on door-knocking from August 01.
