SwitchedOn Australia

Half of Australia's lighting is still inefficient 'tubes and bulbs'. Harry Verhaar from Signify, the largest lighting company in Australia, discusses how efficient LED lighting is one of the easiest, ready-to-implement technologies that can help transition to a low carbon economy.

Rob Murray-Leach from the Energy Efficiency Council discusses how we can get to net zero faster, easier and cheaper if households adopt energy efficiency measures like insulation and efficient electric appliances.

Dr Hedda Ransan-Cooper from the ANU discusses her focus group research that shows many people don't trust private companies with vested profit interests when it comes to energy technology and electrification. But they trust other householders on the same energy transition journey.

Rather than a ‘hub and spoke model’ where all our power generation is centralised, and the home is just a consumer, we hear how the all-electric home of the future could become 'intelligent.' Raghu Belur, the Chief Product Officer for Enphase, a high tech clean energy company based in California, provides a vision of what it can do.

Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and lead author on transport for the IPCC, Peter Newman, says electric transport not only provides an opportunity to produce healthier, net zero vehicles, it enables us to rethink and build healthier, better cities.

For the last 14 years Mayor R. Rex Parris has led Lancaster's transition to net zero. Lancaster has built solar farms, made it compulsory for new homes to have solar panels, challenged the power of the energy utilities, put solar on all public buildings, etc. Now they're overseeing the development of green hydrogen, and hoping to bypass the control of the electricity companies.

Independent energy consultant and founder of the My Efficient Electric Home Facebook page, Tim Forcey, discusses why people would never consciously choose gas for their new home if they knew how dangerous, hazardous and expensive it is.

Alison Reeve from the Grattan Institute discuses how banning new gas connections now will mean dealing with a bounded problem, not a growing one, and enable householders, policymakers and the gas industry to plan for an all-electric future.

Stephanie Unwin, the CEO of Horizon Power, discusses how 400 residential and business customers had just one year to electrify after the local gas distribution company made a business decision to cut the gas off to the town of Esperance.

One-stop shops like Mac Trade Services are seen as one method to help households navigate the process of electrifying their homes. Merrily Hunter, the company's CEO, discuses the crucial role of trades and best practice.