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Join Anne Delaney as she tracks the electrification of everything with people at the forefront of the electrification transition.

  1. Summer Series: How I electrified – Mark

    3 DAYS AGO

    Summer Series: How I electrified – Mark

    Deputy Chair of Zero Emissions Noosa, Mark Purcell, is on a mission to get 50,000 households to electrify and install batteries. He's electrified three homes, and now wants to spread the word to other householders about electrification and decarbonisation. He’s calculated that if he can get 50,000 households to electrify and install batteries one less gas peaker plant will be needed during critical hours of peak demand. But although he's fully committed to household electrification and decarbonisation, Mark didn’t start his own electrification journey for sustainability reasons.

    37 min
  2. Summer Series: How I electrified – Brody

    JAN 12

    Summer Series: How I electrified – Brody

    Two years ago Brody Kenrick embarked on a journey to not just make his late 60s house carbon neutral, but carbon negative. He wanted to make sure his own house had zero carbon emissions and also displace emissions from the grid. Since upgrading his own home Kenrick has also decarbonised his son’s preschool, his parents’ house, and his in-laws. They all now make big savings on their energy bills. While he admits being a trained electrical engineer and tech savvy has been an advantage, and he and his wife were fortunate to have the upfront capital, Kenrick says many of the energy upgrades they did can be achieved by other people. He hopes his house will be a ‘proof of concept’ for others who want to electrify and decarbonise.

    56 min
  3. Summer Series: How I electrified - Sarah

    JAN 5

    Summer Series: How I electrified - Sarah

    Sarah Aubrey lived in her federation house in the inner west of Sydney for 12 years before she embarked on her electrification journey. By then she was fed up with being cold in winter and paying ever increasing energy bills. So she ditched the gas, went fully electric and efficient, and now uses a quarter of the electricity she used to.

    40 min
  4. Will Victoria’s ‘one-stop-shops’ overcome the hurdles facing household electrification?

    12/22/2024

    Will Victoria’s ‘one-stop-shops’ overcome the hurdles facing household electrification?

    When it comes to electrification everyone’s situation is different, and whilst many people are curious about home electrification, others are disinterested or hesitant – it’s seen as too complex, too costly, and too hard to find someone you can trust to do the work. Which is why the Victorian Government announced plans to roll-out ‘one-stop-shops’ that will help householders get accurate information, connect them with accredited installers and products, and apply for government rebates and incentives. Last year the Victorian government relaunched the State Electricity Commission, with a renewables reboot. As well as ramping up renewable generation and storage, the SEC has been tasked with supporting the switch to all-electric households. The partnerships manager at the SEC, Jess Christiansen, discusses how the roll-out of ‘one-stop-shops’ is progressing.

    37 min
  5. Let's stop letting gas shape our thinking and build a national pathway to electrification

    12/15/2024

    Let's stop letting gas shape our thinking and build a national pathway to electrification

    Australia is still investing heavily in new fossil gas projects, the Australian government’s Future Gas Strategy emphasizes the continued use of gas beyond 2050, and we still don’t have a gas reduction strategy. The CEO of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Amandine Denis-Ryan, explains how fossil gas continues to shape our thinking in Australia, why new gas supplies are not needed in the long term, and why we urgently need a nationwide plan for electrification.

    34 min
  6. How real estate agents stonewalled renewable energy upgrades for private renters

    12/06/2024

    How real estate agents stonewalled renewable energy upgrades for private renters

    Alastair Matcott, from Green Energy Trading, worked on an advocacy project that provided free energy audits and free renewable energy upgrades for private renters and investors. But it failed because they were completely stonewalled by every real estate company and industry body they encountered. It’s left Alastair thinking the only way to deal with the split incentive between landlords and tenants is to mandate minimum energy standards for rental homes.

    30 min
  7. Electrifying all our public hospitals is a marathon we need to start now

    11/28/2024

    Electrifying all our public hospitals is a marathon we need to start now

    It’s estimated the healthcare industry contributes around 7% of Australia’s carbon emissions, with hospitals being the biggest carbon emitters in the sector. Hospitals run 24/7 energy-intensive operations for heating, cooling, lighting and to power all that medical equipment. A new campaign led by health care workers and medical groups is calling on the federal government to kick start what will be a marathon to electrify Australia’s 700 odd public hospitals. They’re proposing the government fund a feasibility study to retrofit and electrify nine of Australia’s existing public hospitals. Ursula Alquier is the Healthy Hospitals Campaigner for Health Futures, the not-for-profit social enterprise behind the proposal.

    29 min
  8. Postcodes with higher unemployment have higher rates of rooftop solar

    11/17/2024

    Postcodes with higher unemployment have higher rates of rooftop solar

    With around a third of our homes now sporting a solar array, Australia leads the world by far in solar installations. Recent research has looked at what makes people install solar and found some very surprising factors. Postcodes with higher rates of unemployed have higher rates of rooftop solar, for instance, and the more solar panels you see in your neighbourhood, the more likely you are to install them yourself. Kaveh Khalilpour is one of the report’s researchers and an Associate Professor in Engineering at the University of Technology in Sydney.

    31 min
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Join Anne Delaney as she tracks the electrification of everything with people at the forefront of the electrification transition.

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  • Creator
    RenewEconomy
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    70
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