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A 'one-stop-shop' making finance and installations possible for more households.
When Katherine McConnell started her finance company Brighte, her mission was to get more solar panels on rooftops – to make more houses sustainable …
2 years, 10 months ago
What Australian householders can learn from the US Inflation Reduction Act
Sage Briscoe, Director of Federal Policy for Rewiring America, discusses the landmark US $500 billion Inflation Reduction Act, which is designed to h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lending regulations need to be modified to finance household electrification at scale
Gordon Noble from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney, discusses why we can't rely on government grants to …
2 years, 10 months ago
Why choosing an induction stove is a gateway decision for getting rid of gas from our homes
Chef and kitchen consultant Luke Burgess on why induction stoves are so efficient and why he thinks they are unlikely to be superseded any time soon.
2 years, 10 months ago
Australia could save $8 billion every year by changing more light globes
Half of Australia's lighting is still inefficient 'tubes and bulbs'. Harry Verhaar from Signify, the largest lighting company in Australia, discusses…
2 years, 11 months ago
How energy efficiency will save money and decarbonise the grid faster
Rob Murray-Leach from the Energy Efficiency Council discusses how we can get to net zero faster, easier and cheaper if households adopt energy effici…
2 years, 11 months ago
Distrust of the energy industry could slow the rollout of all-electric households
Dr Hedda Ransan-Cooper from the ANU discusses her focus group research that shows many people don't trust private companies with vested profit intere…
2 years, 11 months ago
The future of energy is local, in our smart all-electric homes
Rather than a ‘hub and spoke model’ where all our power generation is centralised, and the home is just a consumer, we hear how the all-electric home…
2 years, 11 months ago
We can't build cities around cars, even if they're electric
Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and lead author on transport for the IPCC, Peter Newman, says electric transport not only provides a…
3 years ago
How a Republican Mayor in the US uses local government powers to electrify his city
For the last 14 years Mayor R. Rex Parris has led Lancaster's transition to net zero. Lancaster has built solar farms, made it compulsory for new hom…
3 years ago