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Buying or building a home in Australia? Here are the energy efficiency features worth paying for
When the summer sun hits the west-facing windows of our 20th floor apartment in Melbourne, my resistance to switching on the air-con soon wilts. This generally happens about 4pm, soon after we’ve lost access to cheap electricity under our solar sponge …