From storing electricity during off-peak periods to lower your bills to saving power when cooling your home this summer — these savvy tips from Gizmodo Australia will help you maximise your home’s smart energy potential.
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The Tesla Powerwall Is Just The Beginning: The Home Electricity Storage Revolution Coming To Australia
Tesla’s Powerwall is a 7kWh lithium-ion battery designed to store excess energy, whether it’s off the grid or from a home’s solar panels. For such a simple concept, the Powerwall has quickly drawn a lot of attention, with some pundits predicting big implications for the energy industry. The Powerwall is not the first or only innovation in battery storage technology we’ve seen, though — and it certainly won’t be the last.
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Tips And Tech To Make Your Home Energy Smart
Turn off the lights when you’re not in the room, unplug devices on standby and run appliances at off-peak power times — we’ve heard all these tips for lowering your power bill before. With all the power-saving apps, services and gadgets that are now on the market, there are so many more options for making your home energy smart.
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How To Save Power (And Money) Cooling Your Home This Summer
Summer is fast approaching, and even in the early days of spring we’ve seen some incredibly hot days. It may be tempting to crank the air-con up high and keep your house at sub-arctic temperatures until the weather outside finally cools down, but it’s worth thinking about the impact that’s going to have on your bill. There are plenty of ways you can cool your house in a more economical way — or, if you can’t bear turning off the air conditioner for a minute, we’ve collected a few tips so that you can use it more economically.
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The Smartest And Most Energy Efficient Household Lightbulbs You Can Buy
Thanks to strict government regulations, inefficient lighting in homes has quickly becoming a thing of the past. While compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) have been around for a while, the far more efficient technology of LED lighting is now cheap enough to justify an upgrade. But which brands offer the best efficiency?
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Going Solar? Meet The Smart Services That Will Make The Most Of Your Power
Reposit Power is pioneering a new take on the traditional power station. It doesn’t have a generator running on dirty coal — but neither does it have huge fields of wind turbines or solar panels. Instead, Reposit’s ‘power station’ consists of a network of homes across Australia that have solar panels and battery storage, and want to sell their power back into the grid in a smarter way.