People power: how households can help the energy crisis

By Judith Ireland
Updated September 10 2017 - 12:28am, first published 12:21am
Sydney Fri 8Sept17: Chris Dunstan makes the most of solar energy, and an app that monitors the household consumtion and costs. It's cheaper to pump the pool water in peak hour than during off peak. Photo Michele Mossop
Sydney Fri 8Sept17: Chris Dunstan makes the most of solar energy, and an app that monitors the household consumtion and costs. It's cheaper to pump the pool water in peak hour than during off peak. Photo Michele Mossop

By his own admission, Sydney's Chris Dunstan is an "energy wonk". Not only has he installed solar panels on the roof of his Hurlstone Park home, he has designed a system so his rainwater tanks store water for his airconditioning unit.

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