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Electric bytes
SwitchedOn Australia Podcast








What you missed


Smart EV chargers are coming, but meanwhile we have to make do with dumb and smart-ish chargers.


Why banks and lenders need to innovate to enable more homeowners to finance green retrofits and electrification.


Without effective efficiency standards for heat pumps, householders must rely on unfriendly, inaccessible, and imperfect Small Technology Certificates to compare the efficiency of heat pump hot water systems.


Smart meters will be rolled out to 5,600 households in western and southern Sydney to help reduce peak electricity demand, and lower network costs for consumers.


With delays in large-scale wind and solar investment and the construction of new transmission infrastructure, Governments are being urged to expand renewable consumer energy resources.


Even in countries where the grid is dominated by fossil fuels, EVs produce less CO2 than internal combustion engine cars over their lifecycle.


Residents of Esperance who are unable to install rooftop solar will be able to share the benefits and savings of renewable energy.


A $1.5 million trial will help determine how vulnerable households can benefit from electrification.


An estimated 60,000 air source heat pumps were installed in Australia during the first half of 2023.