Posted on June 30, 2009 by greentasreno
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 [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2009 by greentasreno
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 [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by greentasreno
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 [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by greentasreno
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 [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by greentasreno
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 [...]
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