Episode 13 – Sharing solar PV energy across multiple strata dwellings
Solshare by Allume Energy is an option for sharing solar energy at strata groups. What are the planning and technical considerations?
Episode 12 – Multi-vehicle EV charging in strata groups and office carparks
Tesla option for EV charging, with solar power supplied by the Strata Corporation, but billed to individual users.
Episode 11 – Innovative solar, storage and sharing
Solutions for apartments There’s a problem for people living in medium and high density apartments as they lift ambition for climate action: Apartment blocks have limited roof space per apartment for solar PV and limited options for sharing stored energy … Continued
Episode 10 – Time-shifting energy usage
Out of the blue, our electricity retailer replaced our electricity meter with a smart digital meter, enabling billing based on time-of-day usage. So would our Tesla Powerwalls enable us to optimise, to benefit both our billing and the grid?
Episode 9 – Battery storage – adding a second Tesla PowerWall
2021 – Battery options modelling In September 2020 we installed our first battery at Sturt Apartments, Christie Walk. You can read the story of our modelling, battery choices and lessons learned in Episode 7 – Battery storage – Tesla PowerWall 2 … Continued
Episode 8 – We need to talk about shower heads
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How sustainable is your daily shower? Most shower heads at Christie Walk are WELS 3 standard, running at about 9L/minute. They were the best that were readily available when construction of our eco-village was completed in 2006. Older shower heads … Continued
Episode 7 – Battery storage – Tesla Powerwall 2
2020 – Battery options modelling In the middle of all that work on evacuated tubes, we learned that change was imminent in the SA Government Home Battery Scheme. To qualify for the maximum $6k subsidy, applications had to be lodged … Continued
Episode 6 – More evacuated tube solar hot water boosters
Adventures with an environment-conscious inner-urban community 2020 This was the crisis year for so many people – bushfires, COVID, job losses – and it also happened to be the year of our most adventurous emissions-reduction planning, carrying out 2 major … Continued
Episode 5 – Finalist – Carbon Neutral Adelaide Awards
Adventures with an environment-conscious inner-urban community 2016 to 2019 – Carbon Neutral Adelaide Since 2016 we’d had regular contact with the Carbon Neutral Adelaide team, culminating in our carbon emission inventory for the 2017 year. I’d also attended the Carbon … Continued
Episode 4 – Major PV upgrade
2019 For years we’d been tossing around options for increasing our solar performance without losing our high feed-in tariff (56c/kWh) for the 4.8kW PVs that were installed when the Christie Walk community built the Sturt Apartments in 2006. But by … Continued