Discover a Greener Future: Public Tour of Christie Walk
Ready to be inspired? Reserve your spot on a public tour and witness the future of sustainable urban living firsthand.
Episode 14 – Integrating solar, 4 batteries and EV charging
July 11th 2025 marked an important milestone. We commissioned two additional batteries – bringing our total to four – plus our first EV wall charger. That sounds relatively straightforward, but it was the culmination of extensive research followed by six months of negotiating permissions and detailed planning.
Vale Chérie Hoyle
Chérie was a storyteller. When she talked of how it could be, you could picture it and you could feel her energy. Magic did happen with the building of Christie Walk.
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?
Vale Effie Best
Vale Dr Effie Deland Best (1931-2022) A scientist, ecologist, and a supporter of the Peace Foundation, Effie was born in 1931 in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1954 she was awarded a Bachelor of Science with Honours and went on to … Continued
Ambassador – Carbon Neutral Adelaide
At tonight’s Carbon Neutral Adelaide Awards event, Christie Walk was made a Carbon Neutral Adelaide Ambassador, an honour given so far to only 3 others of the 200 Carbon Neutral Adelaide Partners. It was given in recognition of 3 decades … Continued
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