Four years of household energy costs and emissions
17 April 2021
In the last few years, we have been slowly electrifying our transport and home heating/cooking needs.
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The purpose of this blog is to share about the topics I am passionate about.
I want to share about the things that my family are doing to reduce our impact on the climate and the environment around us. I hope that some of the changes we have made will spark your interest, and you too might seek to explore possibilities around what you can do.
17 April 2021
In the last few years, we have been slowly electrifying our transport and home heating/cooking needs.
In the last few years, our family have transitioned from fossil-fuel based energy to electric only. We have done this primarily to reduce our CO2 emissions, but it is interesting to also see the impact that the change has on energy costs.
02 November 2020
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11 September 2020
We have been on a transition from traditional hydrocarbon based energy to an electric-only based solution. For the last few months, we’ve been using electricity as our sole energy source.
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06 June 2020
We have now had our first full month with the new heat-pump based heating system. In this post, I will compare the raw numbers for heating/living with a combination of electricity and gas (June 2019), and electricity-only (June 2020).