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My Efficient Electric Home Handbook

How to Slash Your Energy Bills, Protect Your Health and Save the Planet

by Tim Forcey
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/06/2024

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Everything you need to know to transform your home – old, new or rented – for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future.

Do you want to …

Make your home healthier and more comfortable in all seasons?

Shrink your home's total energy costs?

Make your gas bill disappear completely?

Reduce your climate and environmental impacts?

Make the change to renewable energy by going 'all electric'?

My Efficient Electric Home Handbook is an essential first-of-its kind resource for homeowners and renters. It provides tips and strategies on how to convert your home into an efficient, healthy and comfortable space suitable for our all-electric future.

Sharing insights from working with thousands of Australians in their homes, as well as from hands-on experience modifying his own home, Tim Forcey explains best-practice heating and cooling, hot water heat pumps, induction cooktops, draught-proofing, insulation, solar energy and much more.

ISBN:
9781761500336
9781761500336
Category:
Sustainability
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-06-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Murdoch Books Pty Limited
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
208x138mm

Foreword

Introduction: Why not live in an efficient electric home?

Part 1: Why this book?

1. The climate emergency calls for change

2. Electrifying our homes is now a 'thing'

3. Stop burning stuff!

4. Where our electricity comes from, now and in the future

Part 2: How to create your own efficient electric home

5. Heating and cooling

6. Heat your water the cheapest way

7. Cooking without gas and saying goodbye to the gas grid

8. Do you live in a leaky bucket?

9. Draught-proofing and clearing the air

10. Insulation – a top priority

11. Windows and window coverings

12. Monitoring and minimising your electricity use and costs

13. Solar PV panels and batteries – are they worth it?

14. I'm a renter, what can I do?

Further reading and watching

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Index

'This great little book will be a very practical guide for so many of us.' 
Dr Saul Griffith, Co-founder Rewiring Australia

'At the national level there may have been the wasted years of the climate wars; at the household level it's a different story, and Tim Forcey is shining a (clean, green) light on how we can all act local and think global.'
Zoe Daniel, Independent Member for Goldstein 

'I'm convinced that 'power to the people' was a phrase devised specifically for this book.'
Damon Gameau, diirector and producer

Tim Forcey

Tim Forcey is a home comfort and energy adviser, researcher and author. His expertise is widely sought and accessed by individuals, community groups, businesses, government bodies, members of Parliament and media. Tim founded and contributes to the thriving My Efficient Electric Home online community.

He grew up on a dairy farm before pursuing a career as a chemical engineer working around the globe in fossil fuels, but left that industry after realising the climate crisis couldn't wait for him to effect change from within. Following roles with government, the University of Melbourne, and not-for-profit organisations, Tim now thoroughly enjoys helping people make important changes in their own homes.

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