Category Archives: Energy

Energy update: annual returns for majority

Witchcliffe Ecovillage, 2024 The Ecovillage continues to use 100% renewable energy, exports over three times more renewable energy than it consumes, and is very close to being completely self-sufficient in renewable energy from onsite solar and battery. It’s been a wonderful year on the energy front in the Ecovillage with ...

All systems go! Energy update

We were thrilled to finally receive approval to turn on all of the solar systems in Stage 1 last month. During the summer of 20-21, Western Power experienced a couple of large grid burnout events due to the amount of solar installed in some of Perth’s suburbs. Western Power’s response ...

EV use in the Ecovillage

EV use in the Ecovillage It’s great to see several Ecovillage residents buying EVs, including Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Kona and a Peugeot e-2008. As an early EV adopter, I have often been asked for my recommendation on the best EV to purchase at present. My first two questions are: ...

Witchcliffe Ecovillage Leads Australia in EV Integration

You may have seen our recent Facebook post, celebrating the milestone of switching on one of our first five newly installed Tritium EV fast-charging stations while simultaneously launching the RACE for 2030’s Australian Strategic EV Integration Project (SEVI). SEVI is one of several priority projects within RACE for 2030, a ...

Ecovillage to become EV hub

I’m very excited to announce that we’ve just ordered 11 x 75kW (double lead) Tritium EV chargers from Perth EV energy specialists Gemtek, all with bank billing facilities. ...

Ecovillage energy systems update

As you’re all aware, an abundance of cheap fossil fuel energy is the main reason for the explosion in population, consumption, destruction of our environment and global warming. As we’ve wanted to completely separate ourselves from energy produced from fossil fuels, our challenge has been to provide 100% self sufficiency ...

Lifecycle.house launches at the Ecovillage

At the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, we wanted to take sustainable building design to the next level. After enshrining the basics of passive solar design into our Sustainable Building Design Guidelines, we took the next step of examining the energy it took to create, transport to site, and dispose of various building ...

Preferred Supplier Deals

We have always wanted to use our community’s bulk buying potential to negotiate some great deals on products that we’re all going to need, like PVs, heat pumps, rainwater tanks, pumps, etc. We’ve also always been of the view that we only want to recommend the best and most sustainable products, ...

Energy at the Ecovillage

After many years investigating various battery options for the Ecovillage we have chosen the Tesla Powerpack. Our decision was based on its success, performance and warranty, and confidence gained from the sheer number of Powerpacks that have been deployed worldwide. The Powerpack battery provides 232kWh, with up to 130kW of ...