Attitudes are changing

Bendigo Advertiser
Tuesday 11/3/2008 Page: 3

A SURVEY of more than 2000 households in Victoria, Queensland, NSW and South Australia has revealed that more than 75 per cent of Australians want to reduce energy consumption in the home and implement a rapid response to climate change. CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship has released a report looking at attitudes to household electricity consumption. The report considers people's willingness to accept alternative approaches to reducing domestic energy.

CSIRO social scientist Dr John Gardner said the survey showed most Australians would like to find ways to curb electricity use in the home. "The majority of people surveyed - women in particular - indicated a strong desire to try to reduce the amount of electricity they are using," he said. Younger, more educated, higher income householders were willing to integrate technology into their home to manage their own household energy requirements. And Australians interested in generating their own household electricity prefer renewable energy favouring solar and wind.