Murray Woodman » environment http://murraywoodman.com Homepage and blog Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Home energy consultant http://murraywoodman.com/28/home-energy-consultant?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=home-energy-consultant http://murraywoodman.com/28/home-energy-consultant#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:41:00 +0000 Murray Woodman http://cruncht.org/?p=28 Australians are being pressured financially as resources (water, oil) become more scarce and expensive. There is a confusingly wide range of options available to households and consumers to help them become more green.
Idea
A home energy consultant could give households a report, identifying where they could save resources: water consumption, electricty use, electricty suppliers, fuel use, fuel conversion for cars, solar energy, water tanks. The consultant would earn a fee and possibly kickbacks for referrals.
Problem
Households are unlikely to pay for such a service as they can work it out for themeselves. People will pay for an inspection when buying a house but only becase lots of money is riding on it. You would need to have quite a compelling argument to satisfy this. This kind of service is probably best supplied by “green” plumbers who specilise in water taks etc.

Maybe this kind of info could be provided on a website. eg. Electricity companies compared, the best water tanks, qualified installers, etc. You can still get the kickbacks but it is free for users.

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