Victoria has a plan for the state to electrify, but how do we make the transition fair and equitable for everyone? New research suggests a way forward.

Was going to post this to !aus but I’ll keep it in here for now. I don’t want to dirty up elsewhere with the excessive posting.

That’s because part of a gas bill includes the fixed cost of running gas infrastructure - so as progressively fewer people use gas, the remaining users pay more.

We studied households in Victoria: the state with the highest prevalence of residential gas use in Australia and where plans for an economy-wide transition away from fossil gas are underway.

Just one in ten surveyed households had replaced gas appliances with electric ones within the past five years.

Many respondents were unsure about the relative benefits of electric versus gas appliances when it came to cost, reliability, safety and the environment.

  • Urbaer@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As a renter of there were incentives for landlords to make the transition I’d be asking them to switch us over.

    But as there’s not I can’t really see that there’s much benefit to them in doing so

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve got gas. I just bought a portable induction and use that instead. Covers 75% of the usage usually. That’s 75% less pollution in the house.