Category: Electricity
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Energy Around The Home Workshop – Kiama
This is another workshop I’d have loved to attend, but unfortunately I can’t make it. It would be really useful, given our current efforts to [reduce our high electricity consumption](http://green-change.com/2008/11/14/reducing-electricity-consumption/)! – Date: **Saturday 22 November 2008** – Time: **9:30am – 12:30pm** – Venue: **Girl Guide Cottage, Hindmarsh Park, Kiama** ([map](http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=-34.668886,150.853647&spn=0.003521,0.004528&t=h&z=18)) Learn which parts of your…
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Solar Hot Water Information Night – Gerringong
I’m really looking forward to the solar hot water information night on Friday. I’m hoping to find out whether it is possible to retrofit some kind of solar heating (or at least boosting) to my off-peak electric hot water system. It’s in good condition and it seems wasteful (and expensive!) to get rid of it…
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Reducing Electricity Consumption
After figuring out our [baseline electricity consumption](http://green-change.com/2008/11/07/baseline-water-and-electricity-usage/), we were mortified to see how much electricity we use. I had honestly thought our usage was about half of that amount. So, where are we wasting electricity? We have over 30 50 watt halogen downlights throughout the house. They use a lot of electricity, and we’re pretty…
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Baseline Water and Electricity Usage
Two of the most obvious things to look at when trying to live more sustainably are your usage of electricity and water. We had to record these in the first Super Challenge survey to set a baseline starting point, and I was actually pretty shocked at how much of each we use. For the past…