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Electric homes group tops 35,000 members

My Efficient Electric Home (MEEH) is a rapidly growing Australian online community where members volunteer their time to help each other improve their homes – often in relation to heating and cooling. Last week it passed the milestone of 35,000 members. Group founder and co-admin Tim Forcey describes MEEH as “possibly Australia’s largest continuously updated […]

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Energy experts urge Australia to ‘electrify everything’

A report released by Rewiring Australia, a new energy think tank, shows that Australian households could vastly reduce their energy bills through electrification, and cut domestic emissions by around one-third by 2030. Rewiring Australia’s inaugural report, Castles and Cars: savings in the suburbs through electrifying everything presents new modelling, which shows electrification will save the […]

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Case grows stronger for all-electric homes

A report developed by Renew has analysed the optimum fuel and technology choices for households in Western Australia – and found that the ecological argument for all-electric homes also stacks up economically. The objective of the project was to understand the most cost-effective choices for residential consumers to access stationary energy in the South West […]