This week
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SwitchedOn Australia Podcast
What you missed
The cleanest, cheapest and most convenient way to charge your EV is with your own rooftop solar. Tim Eden provides some tips.
We don't need more gas: we need energy efficiency and electrification to reduce gas demand, and deliver financial benefits.
Zero Homes scopes and sizes electrification projects — installing air-con, heat-pump water heaters, induction stoves, and EV chargers — without ever setting foot in your house.
Policies, regulations, and designs need to speed up the roll-out of V2G in Australia.
Victoria will ensure its Energy Upgrades scheme prioritises electrification as the best way to lower power prices.
Motivated by a determination to do the right thing by the planet, Kenrick's house now generates clean energy for the grid, and makes money for his family.
More funding for active transport options will cut transport emissions.
Most policy changes needed to unlock the full potential of consumer energy can be done with the sweep of a pen – and at minimal cost to the budget bottom line.
Bigger batteries actually increase energy consumption, result in higher costs for purchase and operating expenses, and more greenhouse emissions.
Energy retailers taking part in Victoria's Energy Upgrades scheme are now banned from unsolicited telemarketing.