Thornleigh Passive House

Of all the press we have done (which is a fair bit at this point)... this was our fist foray into commercial television. James and the folks at North Light Productions were nice people to deal with, but it was a very differnet beast than working with ABC TV. In case you didn't guess Bondor was the sponsor for the segment on our house. The Passive House aspect didn't really get much coverage, but I do feel like I've said this stuff enough that it is coming out fairly well! Open Homes Australia, season 6, episode 7. YouTube: Open Homes Australia, season 6, episode 7.

Inside we were between 20 & 25 °C 100% of the month and we produced as much energy as we used (50% direct usage and the other 50% was exported and imported). March started with summer weather but ended in fall weather... it was definitely summer (median temperature 21 °C). The split system was on during peak solar generation for most of the first half of ther month. The HRV was solidly in the 'cooling' season. Outside temperatures ranged from 11 to 40 °C, while inside we were a comfortable 20.0 to 24.8 °C. We had a few rainly days and a couple of very cloudy weeks. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hope that I will be able to use the temperature range for all months. Methods: I have taken the 5 minutely data from the wirelessTag sensors and calculated the median temperature for each hour and determined the proportion of hours falling inside of the 20 - 25 °C target temperature ...