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saving electricity

Backyard Chickens Soar In Popularity

March 18, 2010 by Darren

I’ve long had the feeling that more and more people are getting into things like growing their own food, keeping chickens, and living sustainably. But then my own interest in these areas has been growing over the past few years too, so I wasn’t sure if it was just that I was paying more attention … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity, Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Water Tagged: backyard chickens, food gardens, organic gardening, saving electricity, saving water

Generating Electricity vs Saving Electricity

June 15, 2009 by Darren

While putting together notes for [my talks over the weekend](http://green-change.com/2009/06/14/welcome-super-challengers/), I noticed something interesting. The amount of electricity we saved each day by [converting 10 halogen downlights to CFLs](http://green-change.com/2009/05/25/converting-halogen-downlights-to-cfls/) (4 kWh) is about equal to the amount of electricity we are generating each day (on average) since [installing a 1 kW grid-connect solar power system](http://green-change.com/2009/05/18/we-now-have-solar-power/). … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: chest fridge, government rebates, halogen downlights, power consumption, renewable energy, saving electricity, solar power, solar power system

Free Energy Monitoring Trial For Kiama Residents

March 31, 2009 by Darren

If you want to reduce your energy bills, you need to know what it is in your house that’s using all the electricity. An Efergy energy meter is a great way to do that. The Efergy meter is installed inside your electricity meter box, and transmits real-time energy usage information to a display panel inside … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity, Illawarra Councils Tagged: Efergy, electricity meter, energy consumption, energy monitoring, Kiama Council, nsw government, saving electricity

Fridge Buyback Scheme Comes To The Illawarra

March 26, 2009 by Darren

The NSW Government has been trialling their [Fridge Buyback Scheme](http://fridgebuyback.com.au/) in Sydney for a while now, and starting next month the scheme will be broadened to include the Illawarra. At this stage it will only encompass the Wollongong and Shellharbour Council areas, but hopefully it will extend to Kiama in the near future. The scheme … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: Climate Change Fund, fridge, fridge buyback scheme, Kiama, saving electricity, Shellharbour, wollongong

Reducing Electricity Consumption

November 14, 2008 by Darren

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 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity Tagged: air conditioner, baseline, bathroom heater, CFLs, clothes dryer, dishwasher, electricity consumption, fridge, habit, halogen, halogen downlights, hot water system, incandescent bulbs, night lights, night lights for kids, power meter, saving electricity, simple actions, standby power, washing machine

Baseline Water and Electricity Usage

November 7, 2008 by Darren

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 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Electricity, Water Tagged: off peak electricity, saving electricity, saving water

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