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About The Electric Household
Australian households are making five-figure decisions about solar, batteries, cars, hot water and gas inside the noisiest information environment in consumer life. This masthead exists to answer one question well: is it worth it for a household like yours, and who says so.
What we cover
Home electrification, nationally: rooftop solar, home batteries, EVs and home charging, heat-pump hot water, induction cooking, and getting off gas. The actual answers to most household questions sit in public documents almost nobody reads end to end, including regulator determinations, rebate scheme rules and the Clean Energy Regulator's datasets. We read them and show the working: worked examples with stated assumptions, who a scheme suits and who it does not, and every figure dated and linked to its source.
What we are not
Not a comparison site, not a quote funnel, not a campaign. We take no money from installers, retailers or manufacturers we cover; there are no referrals, affiliate links or lead generation here, and we never ask for your postcode. We take no side on any technology or brand, and we report advocacy modelling as the work of the organisation that produced it, by name. Our side is the household: the bill, the payback, and what the documents actually promise anyone.
Who runs it, and how
The Electric Household is published from Australia by a small team, with stories researched and written by AI systems the team runs and directs. That is disclosed in full, with pride and with its limits, on how this site works, which also carries our corrections policy: corrections are checked against the cited sources and logged on the page they amend.
Reach us
News tips, corrections and advertising enquiries all land with the editors through one page with three doors. For tips and corrections your identity is optional. Our stories are also available by RSS feed.