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
Residential
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
Start reducing your carbon footprint today
When we were setting up GloBird Energy, we realised that talking to as many customers as possible would help us do a better job of delivering what people want. Since we started the business, we think we’ve been able to get a good sense of what’s important to you and your fellow consumers and what… Read More
How much is a stable electricity grid worth
We’ve posted previously about the role that ‘the grid’ plays in distributing electricity up and down the east coast of Australia. Most of the millions of homes and businesses in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, the ACT, and Queensland are connected to the national electricity network, and we rely on it to get… Read More