Energy - The Greeny Flat Experience

Mar 8, 2015: Form Follows Function

As we continue to glide comfortably towards a hugely successful completion of one full year of living in and monitoring the performance of the Greeny Flat we are working on plans for a little celebration to mark the occasion on Earth Day (April 22nd, 3-7pm). Meanwhile, we’ve been receiving a lot of interest and positive […]

Feb 22, 2015: Proof Positive

Today marks the end of our 10th month of monitoring the performance of the Greeny Flat. At this point we can confidently predict that we will complete our first year of testing with a large energy surplus. In fact, at this point, we have exported well over three times as much energy to the grid […]

Feb 8, 2015: In all sorts of hot water

Last week I wrote about a couple of revolutionary projects that might lead us to rethink the way we design and build shelters. Meanwhile, during this year of monitoring and evaluating the performance of the Greeny Flat we are doing a lot of thinking about what we could have done better in the design and […]

Jan 20, 2015: The GreenPower plot thickens

In our last Newsletter I wrote about the can of worms I dived into when I began looking into Switching To Green Power. Well things got even wrigglier when I received the following response from one of our readers. Mary is an energy auditor and consultant from Brisbane and she writes; ‘Hi Andy I was […]

Jan 18, 2015: Switching to Green Power

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve described some of the details of our solar power system and our surface mounted electrical system. All of this writing about electricity got me thinking about the source of the electrons so I finally got around to investigating our options for Green Power. From the beginning of the […]

Jan 11, 2015: Our surface-mounted electrical system

The zincalume coated picture rail in the Greeny Flat doubles as a conduit for the electrical system

One feature that most visitors to the Greeny Flat notice and comment on is our picture rail that doubles as a conduit for the electrical wiring in the house. For many years now I’ve been […]

Dec 24, 2014: December Results

Energy Positive with Renewable Energy

We’ve been living in and monitoring the Greeny Flat for 8 months now. A basic table of the results so far can be found on our Results Page. Looking at the Results Table you’ll see that we have now exported a total of 836kWh of electricity from the grid and […]

Dec 16, 2014: Eco-home Display Village Concept

Recently one of the people who came to visit the Greeny Flat during Sustainable House Day asked me, ‘What do you want to do next, now that the Greeny Flat is proving it is relatively easy to build an energy positive home?’ After thinking about this question for a while I concluded that there were […]

Dec 7, 2014: $41 Energy Bill for last three months

Back in September I posted an article in our Newsletter about our energy bill for the first three months of the Greeny Flat experiment. At that point I was pretty stoked about the fact that our entire energy cost for the first 91 days totaled $89.51 (or $0.98c/day) and that was for the three months […]

Oct 26, 2014: Last Sunday the Greeny Flat made 4 TIMES as much energy as it used!

The chart above shows the Greeny Flat’s energy use and production for last week. And the little box shows that on Sunday, Oct 19th, we used 4.18kWh of electricity and we produced 17.76kWh. That’s a production of just over 4 TIMES as much as we used!

But then the next two days were cloudy […]

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