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"Australians are installing an estimated 940,000 new gas appliances and 800,000
new resistive electric appliances every year, which are locking in significant
long-term and unnecessary costs for heating and cooking.
A new briefing note from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial
Analysis (IEEFA) has found Australians are racking up $3.4 billion in
unnecessary energy costs every year we install inefficient household
appliances.
“A customer buying a new gas heater today may be locking themselves into up to
20 years’ worth of gas costs, which are likely to be significantly higher than
the cost of electricity for an equivalent high-efficiency appliance,” the IEEFA
report says.
Whilst gas heaters, hot water systems and cooktops are now the most expensive
to run, inefficient resistive electric appliances such as panel heaters, oil
heaters, older style electric hot water systems, and ceramic cooktops, will
also lock consumers into unnecessary energy bills."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
