Skip to content
Energy, Government VIC

SEC electrification push is a major step to reducing carbon emissions

Rewiring Australia 2 mins read

Rewiring Australia has strongly endorsed the Victorian State Electricity Commission's strategy to support household electrification.

Under its strategy announced today, the SEC will support households to electrify heating, hot water and other appliances.

This will include electrification pilots in 2024, an education drive to help industry and households understand the benefits of electrification and establishing a trusted ‘one-stop shop’ to step people through the switch.

“Research shows that electrifying households with commercially available technologies is the fastest and cheapest way to decarbonise the economy,” said Dan Cass, Executive Director of Rewiring Australia.

“We strongly endorse the SEC’s commitment to electrification, starting with pilots which provide proof of concept and help the community understand the benefits.  

“The Victoria Government is already a world leader in supporting electrification and providing trusted information to consumers. The SEC will help make the transition process even easier.”

The SEC states that an average detached house can save $2,740 on its annual power bill by going electric. 

“When households install solar and a battery and then replace gas fired heating, water, cooktops and petrol or diesel cars for modern electrified alternatives, they not only reduce carbon emissions but also permanently save thousands of dollars from their annual energy bills,” said Mr Cass.

“The world already has the technology to remove fossil fuels from households and the Australian people have the highest uptake of rooftop solar in the world.

“Now we just need to make this technology more widespread and the SEC will certainly help.”

About Rewiring Australia
Dr Saul Griffith is an Australian American inventor, author and climate and energy expert. He co-founded Rewiring Australia in 2021 with Dan Cass, as an independent research organisation to demonstrate and realise the opportunities of electrification to reduce consumer costs, eliminate emissions, improve the energy system and create new industries.


Contact details:

Charlie Moore: 0452 606 171

More from this category

  • Energy, Information Technology
  • 13/06/2025
  • 09:22
Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric launches new data centre solutions to meet challenges of high-density AI and accelerated compute applications

Innovative prefabricated data centre architecture provides critical IT infrastructure for high-density computing clusters New rack PDUs and rack systems are built for increased size and weight support, and feature direct-to-chip liquid cooling Schneider Electric launches new Open Compute Project (OCP) inspired rack system to support NVIDIA MGX architecture Sydney, 13 June 2025 – Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced new data centre solutions specifically engineered to meet the intensive demands of next-generation AI cluster architectures. Evolving its EcoStruxure™ Data Centre Solutions portfolio, Schneider Electric introduced a Prefabricated Modular EcoStruxure Pod Data…

  • Energy
  • 12/06/2025
  • 11:50
Kinetiko Energy Ltd (ASX:KKO)

COMPLETION OF $2.2M PLACEMENT BACKED BY DIRECTORS AND TOP SHAREHOLDERS

Kinetiko Energy Ltd (ASX: KKO) (Kinetiko or the Company) is developing an energy solution for South Africa focused on commercialising 100% owned advanced shallow conventional gas projects in the Mpumalanga Province. Kinetiko is pleased to announce that is has received firm commitments from professional and sophisticated investors to raise up to $2,203,000 (before costs) through a placement (“Placement”). The Placement was not underwritten and was strongly supported by the largest Shareholders and Directors. As part of the Placement, the Company has also negotiated a debt conversion of a loan in the amount of$500,000 via the issue of new fully paid…

  • Contains:
  • Government VIC
  • 12/06/2025
  • 11:00
Essential Services Commission

Cap on council rates continues to benefit ratepayers

The Essential Services Commission has released its 2025 Local Government Outcomes Report, which shows most local councils remain in good financial health and ratepayers continue to benefit from council rate caps. Rate capping is a system that limits the amount Victorian councils can increase their average rates by each year. The Minister for Local Government sets the rate cap, which applies to all councils. The commission reports on the outcomes of the rate capping system every two years to identify any emerging trends across the local government sector and any other impacts of the caps on the sector. Over the…

Media Outreach made fast, easy, simple.

Feature your press release on Medianet's News Hub every time you distribute with Medianet. Pay per release or save with a subscription.