Green Building Council CEO Davina Rooney says the push to heat buildings with electricity rather than gas is a “real opportunity” to “jump technologies” and save large amounts of energy.
“There’s this thing called the hydrogen ladder, where are we best off to use green gas in the future and there’s spaces that are really important like manufacturing green steel, but all the independent reports say heating buildings isn’t really that place,” Ms Rooney told Sky News Australia.
“There’s a real opportunity for us to jump technologies, we went from the Nokia phone to the iPhone, there’s this huge opportunity … and go into the most efficient places … buildings have been a boring but important part but we spend 90 per cent of our lives here, they use a huge amount of energy, there’s a real opportunity to partner with the government and put this right at the heart of carbon policy.
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