- Tech Collect Recycling Drop Off
- Cloth Nappy Service Trial
- Official Opening of Prospect Digital Hub
- Free E-Waste Drop Off Locations
- Technology Abuzz at the 2013 Prospect Fair
- Tourrific Prospect to Headline 2013 Tour Down Under Events
- Mayor Generally Supportive of Taller Buildings
- Prospect Road Does It Again
- Draft Inner Metropolitan Growth Development Plan Amendment released for community consultation
- Proposed Phone Tower Addition to Council Building
- Successful Funding Bid by ERA Councils
- Prospect Retains Intelligent Community Forum Smart21 Ranking
- Friday Nights in the Plaza
- No High Rise for Prospect
- Prospect Settles Tree Dispute
- 'One Card' Library Network
- 2012/13 Annual Business Plan adopted
- City of Prospect Successful in Santos Tour Down Under Stage Bid
- Order of Australia Medal awarded to Prospect Local
- Re-Collected: A Photographic Survey of Place
- e-voting Voted up at ALGA
- Call for Heritage Tax Credit Scheme
- KidStories 2: Bigger and Brighter
- City of Prospect Double Scoops Excellence Award
- Worn to the Edges Exhibition opens 1 July
- Prospect Commemorates Amnesty International Day
- Call for Heritage Tax
- Reason for Being exhibition
- Landmark agreement paves way for volume rollout
- NBN fibre rollout to be completed or underway in a third of the country over the next three years
- NBN and the Digital Economy
- Water Efficiency Incentive Scheme is back
- New Joint Venture established to deliver roll out of NBN to Prospect
- Drawn to Bodies of Water
- Prospect Fair goes Green
- State government approves Urban Renewal Authority
- NBN Fast-Tracked for Roll Out
- Prospect Nominee for Pride of Australia
- Prospect People Prospect Past on Show
- Prospect Gallery Exhibition of the Ornate
- Prospect Wins Excellence Award
- Prospect Library Leads the Way
- Cyclist Infrastructure Upgraded on Prospect and Churchill Roads
- New Council announced
- Sustainable Living Guide now online
- Churchill Road make over begins
- ERA creates strategy to boost services to local communities
Home Energy Audit
A home energy audit is a simple step-by-step process of assessing how much energy your home uses. Undertaking an energy audit will help you to identify ways to be more energy efficient within your household; helping to reduce your costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Preforming a home energy audit involves conducting a diligent walk-through of your home to determine how you currently use energy and then comparing that usage to the most energy efficient practices. During an audit, you will be able to pinpoint where your house is losing energy and determine where improvements can be made, ultimately lowering your household's energy costs, and in turn, reducing your impact on climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Energy Division of the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure has developed a do-it-yourself Home Energy Audit Toolkit. The kits provide practical tools and information to help householders discover easy ways to cut energy costs. The kit includes:
- Power-Mate (a small meter that displays energy usage, cost and greenhouse gas emissions for appliances)
- Infrared thermometer
- Room thermometer
- compass
- stopwatch
- Energy Friends home energy auditing manual
- Laminated instruction sheet
- Copies of the home energy audit worksheets.
By implementing some of the opportunities identified, a typical household has the potential to reduce energy costs by hundreds of dollars per year, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2 to 4 tonnes per year.
City of Prospect has a number of Home Energy Audit Toolkits available for loan at the:
Thomas Street
Centre
1 Thomas Street
Nailsworth SA 5083
If you are a member of the SWAP Library network, you can reserve your Home Energy Audit Toolkit online today at http://www.swaplib.sa.gov.au/, or by calling the library on (08) 8342 8170.
