Switching to solar and electrifying your home can deliver big savings on energy bills, but getting it all done is not always that easy, particularly when you?re busy. ZapCat, a new social enterprise, helps households make the transition.
The renewable energy transition in Australia is in full swing. Households are expected to make a major contribution by switching to solar and electrifying everything, including replacing petrol cars with EVs and getting off gas.
In this once-in-a-generation effort, $2 trillion could be spent electrifying residential houses between now and 2050, with major banks getting in on the action offering loans to people switching.
Households that make the switch are set to save almost $4,500 per year in energy bills, so it?s no wonder that the pace of electrification is increasing. But as the co-founders of ZapCat discovered, actually making the transition isn?t as easy as it seems.
?I was feeling guilty about my environmental impact,? said Piroska. ?I was increasingly worried about the health impact of having gas appliances at home on my daughter, and I?d spent 5 years trying to research things like solar and hot water heat pumps. But every time I opened Google, I got overwhelmed and had to close my laptop. When you have a busy job and kids, you don?t have

time to become an expert.?
Jimmy had a similar experience. ?Online articles were filled with technical jargon. Forums and Facebook groups were filled with electrical engineers and specialists. On...