Cooking with gas? Not any more…

Renew CEO Helen Oakey tastes the benefits of induction cooking.

The past few years have seen much discussion about how to wean south-eastern states and territories off natural gas in our homes. While Australia’s “Buildings” sector only accounts for around 21% of our domestic gas consumption1, the use of gas in our homes is a powerful touchpoint for the community to think about carbon emissions. The social licence attributed to using gas for space heating, hot water and cooking is the same social licence that large gas producers such as Santos and Woodside rely on to continue their relentless pursuit of new and climate-damaging gas projects in Australia. Scenarios out to 2043 for reducing residential and commercial gas consumption vary greatly in the Federal Government’s gas strategy. The most ambitious of them—a cut of 72% of gas usage on 2023…

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Renew (Digital) - 1 Issue, 170 / Jan-Mar 2025

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