REC’s What do you do?

 When we started on this journey of sustainable renovation one of the first things we did was to replace the electricity hungry hot water system with a Siddons heat pump system which has cut our hot water costs by a large amount. We received a $1000 rebate from the Federal Government and we had 30 [...]

Manners meanderings from the Meander Valley

 
 

Wow it is nearlythe end of May and I have not updated the site for a little while. This is not because there has been nothing happening but because there has been so many small things going on.
 

Where to start. Well the insulation we had put into the walls along with the draught proofing  and [...]

Solar System Connected at last!!

 

Conergy Inverter finally in action

 
8 WEEKS AND 3 DAYS AFTER BEING INSTALLED AURORA FINALLY COMMISSIONED OUR 1KW GRID CONNECT SYSTEM.
Well it has only taken eight weeks and three days but our Conergy grid connect system is finally producing power. It only took Aurora Energy approx 2 hours to move the meter and two electricians from [...]

Grid Connect solar panels installed

5th January: The sparky’s turned up and spent the day installing our 1KW photovoltaic grid connect system. Fantastic. We had waited since November for this day. What with delays to the Government rebate scheme with the introduction of a $100,000 income limit and general slow government departments.
So what a day. The electrician showed us the [...]

Solar Panels & Grid Connect System

September 2008 saw the new roof on the house and the days slowly getting longer as Spring slowly started to come around the corner. We looked at the expanse of North facing new Colorbond roofing and started to think about solar panels for generating electricity.
A reasonable explanation of how solar panels can be found by [...]