Gas Installations Sydney

For most households in Sydney and wider Australia, natural gas provides far more affordable energy than grid electricity.

In fact, in most regions, an equivalent unit of natural gas costs less than half that of electricity. For Sydney residents, electricity is supplied to New South Wales for an average of 27.6 cents per kWh. The same amount of energy by natural gas can be supplied to a home for just 13.4 cents.

This is because, unlike electricity, the more gas appliances you have in your home, the more savings you tend to observe. Natural gas appliances have lower running costs and can have long-term cost-saving benefits.

This story is repeated throughout Australia, with almost all households and businesses able to save hundreds of dollars a year in energy bills by getting connected to natural gas.

Natural gas is far more reliable than electricity which suffers from occasional (to regular) blackouts in power, disrupting your home life or business operations.

With gas infrastructure largely underground and highly resilient, it is not subject to the same outages that the electric grid suffers. With natural weather conditions and peak usage able to shut down electricity, it has sometimes left hundreds of thousands of Australians incapable of heating their water, their homes, or cooking their food.

Natural gas, however, suffers just one outage, on average, every forty years. This unprecedented level of reliability is simply unmatched by both grid and renewable electricity sources.

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Stoves and BBQS powered by natural gas are also far more responsive than their electric counterparts.

When subjecting your cooking to a direct heat source, such as a cooktop, almost all chefs and experienced cooks will agree that a gas burner will produce a better result than an induction coil. Whereas electric cooktops take time to heat up and respond to changes in temperature setting, gas is instant.

A gas ring will apply direct, instantaneous heat to saucepans and skillets, with heat reduction reacting far quicker than electric. Gas is also more highly regarded when baking, with ovens reaching temperatures far quicker. Gas temperature can also be adjusted with fine control with analogue controls whereas electricity tends to be more limited in settings.

Despite being a fossil fuel, natural gas is a surprisingly clean energy source, producing significantly few emissions than grid electricity, by around 75%. Not only that, but natural gas currently meets around 44% of Australian homes’ energy needs, but produces just 13% of these properties’ emissions.

The natural gas supplied through Australia’s 39,000 km long network of gas lines can produce a kWh of energy and only produce around 0.185kg of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions when delivered to Sydney and New South Wales. Grid electricity, however, emits considerably more, around 0.8kg to generate the same amount of energy.

While natural gas is often sat alongside the likes of coal and oil, its unique chemical composition means the emissions from its use are far lower. In comparison to coal, natural gas emits around 50-60% less CO2 than the energy produced from even a brand new coal plant.

This is because natural gas is primarily methane that has a denser energy to CO2 content than other fuel types. The higher this ratio of energy to CO2, the cleaner the fossil fuel.

To the average Australian household or business, this means they can take advantage of a cleaner fossil fuel immediately to heat their water and property. A hot water system powered by natural gas, for instance, emits the same amount of CO2 as that of a system which relies equally on both renewable and grid-based electricity, produced by burning coal.