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Alan Pears
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT
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Appliances
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.
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Getting Off Gas
Even though grid electricity is more expensive per unit of energy than gas at present, it still costs less to heat the efficient all-electric home.