If your hot water system is running at a higher temperature than it needs to be, then it’s costing you more money than it should. So, what do you need to know to get it right, and can you adjust it yourself, if need be? This recent article by ABC Brisbane’s Dannielle Maguire, How to… Read More
Residential
Could rooftop solar owners be charged to sell energy back to the grid?
When the electricity grid was designed and built there was a large generation source at one end and consumers at the other. It started with heavy cables strong enough to handle the extreme electrical current coming from the generator and the web of wires and infrastructure got smaller with less current being distributed over thinner… Read More
The (almost) A to Z of saving on your gas bill
Gas bills go up in winter. That’s just a fact of life, because most households use more gas in the colder months, particularly heating water and rooms. It’s one of the reasons we recommend bill smoothing: paying a little more than the bill in the warmer months so that the difference between the ‘peak’ season… Read More
Has energy consumption changed during the Covid-19 crisis?
Even before the virus breakout, in recent blog posts we’ve mentioned the need to be positive and to focus on the good. Lately that has become much harder. The pandemic has impacted so many aspects of our lives. Not just large industries, like airlines, but small business, too. The uncertainty and the relentlessness of the… Read More
7 things you should do now to reduce your winter energy bills
Given the current stay-at-home directives from the Government, it looks like a lot of households might be occupied for more hours per day than in previous years as the cold weather starts to set in. That will inevitably mean higher energy use and correspondingly bigger bills. So, if ever there was an incentive to do… Read More
Meanwhile, in news you might have missed …
Like everyone, we watch and read the daily news. Being so close to the operations of the energy sector, we spend a lot of time thinking about the everyday challenges for energy consumers and business. That does mean that it’s easy to start thinking about the difficult bits too much and take our eye off… Read More