Most people don’t want to think about when they use energy, yet I want to show you some of the advantages of scheduling and moderating your use (especially high-level use), whether you do it actively and consciously, or automatically via technology.

Saving the planet one kWh at a time I’ve been reflecting lately on why, in my efforts to contribute to ‘saving the planet’, I have devoted my working-life to saving

Seb Crangle  Home Energy Advisor   To those that can afford it, solar PV is often seen as an easy fix, a ‘get out of jail free’ card, a ‘set

people who rent deserve a comfortable, energy-efficient place to live. All too often landlords do nothing to improve the energy efficiency of their investments, simply because

You’d be justified in thinking that the answer to this question was a resounding “YES” – that one of the benefits of LED over halogen downlights is that it isn’t

For those of us who don’t live in homes designed from the outset for energy efficiency, there are actions we can take to prevent them from: A.) becoming uncomfortably hot

One of the speakers at last week’s Sustainable House Expo by Tweed Shire Council was Catherine Patterson from Carbon Positive Australia. She spoke about how households can mitigate their carbon footprint by purchasing

Like a lot of people in the Northern Rivers we live in a house built with little regard for modern ‘passive solar design’. It is very hot in summer and

Some of you may know that I worked at Enova Energy up until 2 weeks ago when they succumbed to the energy crisis, going into voluntary administration. One of the

“The greenest power is the power you don’t have to produce” Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute While there has been an understandable focus on