While fuel efficiency standards overseas are helping bring down emissions by boosting the sale of electric vehicles, Australia still has no mandatory standards and risks becoming the dumping ground for dirty, high emissions cars no-one else wants to sell.

Efficient electric heaters and cooktops are a paradigm shift away from traditional electric appliances.

With the number of households connecting to gas increasing faster every year than those disconnecting, governments must set dates to ban new gas connections.

A number of online tools are now available to help households go electric and quit gas. We look at a couple.

The energy sector is full of terms and references that might be unfamiliar.