Electrification can help lower energy bills, make homes more comfortable and reduce emissions. Inner West Council, with Renew and industry experts, has created these practical talks and resources to help renters, homeowners and apartment residents improve energy efficiency, get more from solar and move away from gas.
Presented by Graham Hunt Architect and Renew Sydney Central Branch Convenor and funded by Inner West Council
- Are you renting and have high energy bills, or does your rental get too cold or too hot?
- Maybe you know someone who is renting and struggling with their bills?
- Are you a landlord that would like to make your rental properties more efficient?
- This talk will give you all the info you need!
Resources
- Do you get condensation on your windows and walls?
- Do you have mould growing in your bathroom?
- Do you feel a breeze inside your home even when your windows and doors are closed?
- Do you want to fix these problems but you’re not sure where to start?
Presenter Sean Maxwell leads the Australian Air Tightness Testing and Measurement Association (ATTMA). Sean has led dozens of trainings for builders, project teams, and consultants to get a better handle on the practice of building more airtight buildings. Sean will cover the causes of condensation in existing houses, how to reduce the occurrence and severity of condensation-related problems and opportunities for energy savings in existing houses
Renew President and award winning building designer Dick Clarke looks at how extreme weather is impacting Australian homes. Dick poses the question of what’s involved in building to survive and live close to normal when faced with heat waves, cold snaps, bushfires, floods, power outages and mains water outages.
Speaker Dick Clark is Principal of Envirotecture and an Accredited Building Designer with 40 years of experience.
A panel discussion of experts including: Stuart Gordon from IQ Solar, Kosta Boukas from Power Smart Solutions and Vasilios Giotis from Blue Green Engineering cover the things you need to know to select the right solar system for your home from the get-go,
Learn how to plan for a solar system that will work well and last long term. You will also learn how to make sure your system is working properly and how to maintain it.
The Renew Sydney chapter team and environmental engineer and specialist energy consultant for residential strata buildings, Ethan Burns, cover where and how energy is being used in the common property and Identify low or no-cost opportunities to reduce consumption and save money
Ethan investigates opportunities requiring capital investment and their return on investment and how using the nationally recognised National Australian Building Environment Rating System (NABERS) can benchmark your building and monitor ongoing improvement in performance.
Opportunities for both common property and tenancies to install solar photovoltaic (PV) are also outlined.
Important viewing for strata managers, strata executive committees and residents.
Renew’s research team have demonstrated that making your home all electric will not only save you money in the long term but will also ensure your home is more resilient into the future.
Renew Australia recently launched it’s Getting Off Gas Toolkit and Renew Sydney Central Branch co-convenors Melanie Lupis and Graham Hunt introduced it to Sydney at this event.
The Toolkit provides practical information to help households work through the steps of ‘Getting Off Gas’ and replacing it with energy efficient electric appliances powered by renewables.
Watch this recorded webinar to learn more!
Do your energy bills keep going up and up? Is your home freezing in winter, hot in summer or both? Are you keen to live in a thermally comfortable and energy efficient home but don’t know where to start?
This popular workshop was delivered by Renew Sydney and covered energy efficiency retrofits with home energy efficiency and sustainability consultant Melanie Lupis and St Peters homeowner Sarah Aubrey.
- Overview of Residential Efficiency Scorecard Assessments
- What upgrades will give you the best bang for your buck?
- Is there an order of things?
- How do I choose a supplier? Who can do the work? What will it cost?
- Case study: Sarah’s Energy Efficiency Retrofit Project
View recording Energy Efficient Retrofits - Renew's Sydney Branch (youtube.com)