Renew Magazine
The EVs are coming! But is your home EV-ready?
Electrical contractor, EV charging point installer and EV owner Bryce Gaton looks at what you need to know to assess the potential hidden installation costs and practical considerations in preparing your home for an EV.
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Renew Magazine
Drawdown: A plan to reverse global warming
Paul Hawken's Drawdown project brings together peer-reviewed science on the “top 100 solutions to climate change”, highlighting the benefits and costs of each. ATA member Tom Hunt met with him recently in Melbourne.
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Renew Magazine
Renew member profile: A window on a life in building efficiency
A physicist by training, Peter Lyons has spent two and a half decades involved with housing energy efficiency—in particular, the role of windows, and windows ratings systems. He talks to Anna Cumming.
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Renew Magazine
Pears Report: Risky business?
Transforming our energy system may prove far less risky than propping up traditional over-built electricity supply, suggests Alan Pears.
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Renew Magazine
Renew Issue 143
ReNew 143 is our annual building materials special.
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Renew Magazine
Getting solar: from research to install
One homeowner shares the steps to planning a successful solar electricity system.
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Renew Magazine
PV recycling – Where do all the panels go?
What do you do when a panel comes to the end of its useful life? Moreover, what do you do with billions of them?
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Renew Magazine
ReNew Issue 142
ReNew 142 is our landlords and renters special, plus we’ve updated our ever-popular solar panel buyers guide.
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Sanctuary Magazine
When Stars align: Finding the energy star rating and financial ‘sweet spot’
When does investment in energy performance garner a financial return? We ask three of Australia’s leading energy efficiency housing researchers to find out.
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Renew Magazine
More flexible energy systems: energy storage buyers guide
With rapidly increasing demand due to increasing energy prices, there has been an explosion in the number of ready-to-use energy storage systems available. We take a look at the options available.
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Renew Magazine
ReNew Issue 141
ReNew 141 is an energy efficiency special, plus we’ve updated our popular energy storage buyers guide.
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Sanctuary Magazine
Many happy returns: 21 years of solar
Stuart McQuire and Wendy Orams were second in Australia to install a grid-connected rooftop PV system and haven’t paid an electricity bill since 1996.
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