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few years ago, similar to views about future
electricity demand, forecasters thought gas demand in Australia would keep
rising. As it turns out, gas demand peaked in 2012 and may halve by 2025 - as
we showed in our recently published University of Melbourne Energy Institute (MEI) report, and earlier on The Conversation.
Step by step, householders are making economic decisions
that will eventually lead to many completely disconnecting from the gas grid,
as they find gas to be an increasingly costly secondary source of home energy.
This is particularly true when it comes to space-heating.
When the cost of operating a modern reverse cycle air conditioner (known in
Tasmania and elsewhere around the world as a heat pump) can be one-third the
cost of heating with gas, why wouldn’t a householder have a look at the
possibilities?
Read The Conversation
report - “The cheapest way to heat your home with renewable energy – just flick a switch”.
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