{"id":2566,"date":"2024-06-24T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2024-06-24T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:16:34","slug":"update-to-electrifying-our-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/update-to-electrifying-our-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to electrifying our life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2566\" class=\"elementor elementor-2566\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cfc5c7 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1cfc5c7\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e042ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e042ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Talking to people at the Mini Enviro Expo of Whitehorse City Council&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au\/waste-environment\/sustainability\/sustainable-living\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sustainable Living 2024<\/a> program, I was drawn to my old\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/one-home-transition-story\/\">One personal home transition story<\/a><\/em> post to help describe the cash benefits to electrifying our life.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--text-align); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">But the chart there is looking a bit old, a couple of things have happened, so it needs and update.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-bottom: var(--theme-content-spacing); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\">A quick refresher, this charts our\u00a0<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); font-size: var(--theme-font-size); font-style: var(--theme-font-style, inherit); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">home energy cost as an\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">annual rolling average updating with monthly billing, sign-posting significant events.<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"margin-bottom: var(--theme-content-spacing); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; padding-inline-start: var(--theme-list-indent);\"><li>Going all electric, losing gas bills, our electricity bill including heating rising to less than our earlier electricity and gas bill.<\/li><li>Finally putting on solar PV, pushing down our electricity bill.<\/li><li>Buying an electric car.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b29c071 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b29c071\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e95bcdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e95bcdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story-1024x362.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2568\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story-1024x362.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story-768x272.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story-1536x544.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/story.png 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9204db e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c9204db\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aad05de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aad05de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">That&#8217;s where I left off, with the expectation that the annual cost would climb with the added transport costs. Which it did, to a level about the same as our first move all electric.<\/span><\/p><p><b>That is our total house, heating, hot water and car energy costs are still less than our home-only costs before getting off gas.<\/b><\/p><p>So that&#8217;s where we have been, and it&#8217;s all taken for granted. But there is one more key milestone starting about January 2023.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-949a996 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"949a996\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A cautionary tail engaging the retail market<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f50d00 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2f50d00\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ae3bfe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ae3bfe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I went to change retailer. I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/compare.energy.vic.gov.au\/\">compare.energy.vic.gov.au<\/a>\u00a0that has all offers from retailers in Victoria, let them get my interval meter data from AEMO, and present the best offers based on our actual pattern of usage. I found what I thought was a good offer and I went to the company website. I won&#8217;t name the retail because this is more about my behaviour than theirs.<\/p><p>The switch went through, the usual messages came saying here we are, there&#8217;s 10 days cooling off, etc. Then one message I should have paid closer attention to: that the tariff I had chosen was not compatible with my meter configuration, and I was being placed on another tariff instead.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">Okay, I thought, I&#8217;ll deal with that later.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">You can see the result &#8211; <strong><em>for the first time since we went all electric our energy costs jump to over $2000<\/em><\/strong>, and stayed there. I didn&#8217;t notice they change at first, it&#8217;s a monthly bill, we would have had air-con running.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--theme-palette-color-7); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\">When I put the running annual total together again, I still didn&#8217;t twig at first to the change over time. Then I did, and I got angry with my retailer for putting me on a tariff I did not want to be on.<\/span><\/p><p>But I did not call them, I did not ask for a better offer, I did not compare offers again, or when I did I did not go the next step and make a switch.<\/p><p>Then I got angry, with myself. Now I have paid around $600 I didn&#8217;t need to, because I didn&#8217;t want to spend the time on a few phone calls.<\/p><p>Now I have finally compared the market and switched retailer to a better offer &#8211; I expect to spend around $500 less than I would have with my previous retailer.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s called the lazy tax, and we all fall for it.<\/p><p>If you have not compared retailer market offers in 12 months, take the time to do so now.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to people at the Mini Enviro Expo of Whitehorse City Council&#8217;s\u00a0Sustainable Living 2024 program, I was drawn to my old\u00a0One personal home transition story post to help describe the cash benefits to electrifying our life. But the chart there is looking a bit old, a couple of things have happened, so it needs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecam.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}