I saw the other day that close to 70% of Australians support the need to build more renewable energy projects. That’s huge. No surprise that rooftop solar is the most popular at 80% of course—4M homes already have that—but hydropower at 73%, solar farms at 69%, onshore wind at 60% and offshore wind at 59% […]
Living Green (Literally)
A new copper-clad, energy-generating home on the outskirts of Oxford in Britain is being hailed as both a triumph of style and sustainability. The house—by UK architect Adrian James who’s called it “Copper Bottom”—is green in the most literal sense. The outside of the house is almost all clad in copper, as if the roof […]
One Billion Smart Meters And Counting
The smart electricity metering market in Asia Pacific is inching ever closer to the historic milestone of 1B installed smart meter devices. A new regional snapshot from analyst’s, Berg Insight, says installed smart electricity meters will grow from 818.6M units in 2023 to nearly 1.2B units in 2029—a compound annual growth rate of 6.4%. Meaning […]
Copper Cuts Climate Emissions
The carbon payback for additional copper ‘invested’ into improving energy efficiency is earned back 20 to 300 times over the lifetime of an energy system says a new European report. And for renewables, the carbon emissions for producing copper is earned back in a matter of 1 to 2 weeks. Increasing the cross section of […]
NBN Redux?
There’s both good and bad news when it comes to the NBN, but over twenty years since launch its future is still a hotly debated topic around the country. There’s definitely a lot of good NBN news these days. A new study commissioned by NBN Co found faster broadband is set to deliver a $400B […]
Banking Solar
Net Zero are definitely the buzz words these days and while industry pursues that goal it’s also on the agenda of homeowners. And battery storage is key. It’s part of what is now known as Battery Energy Storage Systems or BESS, and one application helps store power generated from clean energy like solar photovoltaic or […]
Has Green Fatigue Set In?
A new study says two thirds of consumers know how to make sustainable energy choices, but won’t spend the time or money to do it. Really? The snapshot from Ernst Young (EY) calls this “consumer fatigue”. They found households—and they asked 100K of them—are keen on clean energy and know quite a bit about it, […]
Being Green Just Got Easier
‘It’s not easy being green’ may have been a hit song by a frog 30 years ago, but for most people renovating a home that original message still rings true. Till now that is. The Green Building Council of Australia—GBCA—has just launched their sustainable guide to home renovations so builders, designers & homeowners can make […]
Lets Get Serious On Smart Meters
The Federal Government wants to see 100% of homes with smart meters by 2030—starting with a compulsory roll out in 2025—that could deliver $507M in net benefits across the country. The Australian Energy Market Commission—AEMC—is pushing a new campaign that it says offers “customers more ways to engage with the energy market now and in […]
Electrified Home Debate Sparks Up
I see that Sydney City Council now wants to ban gas connections in all new homes and some businesses, an all electrification trend that just seems to keep growing. Victoria got the ball rolling with a gas ban from January 1 next year but the ACT and some councils like Waverley in Sydney have also […]
What’s Most Important To Australian Cablers?
Registered Cablers recently did a small survey of Aussie Cablers to find out what they’re most concerned about and what they’d like to know more about. It proved very interesting. We asked 2 big questions. First we asked Cablers to rate 10 topics they’d be interested in learning more about, ranging from the AS/CA S009 […]
“Chameleon-like” Buildings Sensing Temperature
We urgently need new ways to control building temperature in a flexible and energy-efficient way…..and the brainiacs are responding I’m glad to say. One of the newest is using copper to change a home’s “infrared colour” to decide how much heat it absorbs or emits. It’s still early days of course, but the work by […]
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