Lucy and Robin’s house
Lucy and Robin’s house
Retrofitted a battery to the house. Have 20 solar panels, 5kW system. We drive an EV that is powered by the solar-fed house battery. Around $2,000 a year saved on petrol costs. Battery bought in June 2018; it has saved $4,557 in electricity costs to date. Over the 4 years since the battery was bought, on average the house is self powered 61% the breakdown being: 34% solar, 27% powerwall (battery) and 39% from the grid.
Sustainability Features
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Rainwater storage - Above ground
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Water tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 110,000L
- Electric Vehicle
- Tesla model 3
- All-Electric Home?
- Yes
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect
- Size of PV system:
- 5
- Number of bedrooms
- 5
- Number of bathrooms
- 3
- Garden / Outdoors
- Bee keeping
Bee hotels/friendly
Bird-nesting boxes
Chickens
Composting
Edible garden
Frog friendly
Greenhouse
Orchard
Organic
- Waste Reduction Practices:
- Compost all food scraps
Make jams/conserves
Pickle and preserve food
Recycle
Repair
Take own containers to the supermarket and for take away food
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Retrofit/addition
- Open with support of
- Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group
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