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EV charging: options, ‘personas’, data and a breakthrough for electrification

The rise of EVs brings together three of the biggest infrastructure investments affecting our everyday lives: our homes, our personal transport, and our household energy assets like rooftop solar.

Murray Hogarth 22 February 2022

MyTown Microgrid Heyfield community liaison officer Emma Birchall with local electrician Brenton Stuart

My town wants a local microgrid: where do we start?

There are many communities around Australia, and the world, harbouring ambitions to improve their energy supply, and even run their own mini electricity systems. Wattwatchers co-leads the MyTown Microgrid project in the historic Victorian timber town of Heyfield, a three-year feasibility study now close to reaching its half-way point.

Murray Hogarth 29 November 2021