The devil is always in the detail. The greater the capacity you have to examine the detail, the greater your capacity to identify the order in what seems to be disorder. Last year my wife and I attended a seminar in Sorrento in Italy which is a quiet, ordered little seaside village. Before the event we spent a week in Naples staying in a hotel a short stroll from the railway station. During peak hour, as you would expect to find in any European railway station, there was an multitude of people walking and sometimes running in every direction. It looked like chaos on a grand scale with seemingly no rhyme or reason as to the confusion.
Without doubt, should we have taken the time to ask any individual where they had come from and where they were going, they would have had a real purpose amongst what seemed to us to be outright chaos. Sometimes what seems to be very confusing is really quite simple. The apparent complexities are frequently exacerbated by merely by the sum of a multitude of other similar understandable functions. There is order hidden amongst the apparent chaos.
It is easy to be overwhelmed as, what appears to be complexity, increases. Picture 1, shows the lines of electrical distribution on 2nd Road in Pattaya Thailand. 
The electricians who installed every wire know exactly where each individual electrical feed is coming from and to where it is being distributed. Have no doubt about it, every recipient will have their supply metered and will be sent a bill in a systematic manner.
What appears to be complex disorder is revealed as simple order after examining the detail.
When it comes to being home energy efficient, there are those who give up in desperation because they perceive complexity and chaos within what is simple and very understandable. It may well be considered beyond their perceived capacity or perhaps way too tedious to be bothered with.
Every great journey starts with one small step, and can frequently be achieved by one small step after another.
There are families who pay thousands of dollars each year for electricity that they purchase from the grid and there are families who are paid thousands of dollars each year for the electricity they contribute to the grid. Every family who consumes electricity will be found somewhere along the continuum. If you are reading this, then you have the capacity to move in any direction along this continuum.
To change your position can be adjusted by one simple step at a time.
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At an event on the Gold Coast before the world went into lockdown, I advised a seminar group that between 2012 and 2028 my family would better off than the average family in our electricity expenditure by about $90,000, and, on our past statistics, that was a conservative estimate. It would be very difficult for someone to move from the bottom end of the continuum to the top end overnight. It has taking us 25 years to be where we are and we have simply got here taking one step at a time. Achieving the outcomes we do, has been done by improving and applying what we know, one step at a time. To learn to benefit as we do may appear to be overwhelming and very complex at first glance, but the reality is that it is very, very simple, if you take it one step at a time. It is certainly not complex or chaotic.
Every action we have taken is like a train patron at the Naples railway station. Each function has a purpose, and collectively, what only appears to be chaotic and complex contributes to moving us to the higher end of the continuum. The results we have are very orderly and very predictable.
Picture 2 is my wife at festival shopping centre located on the same road in Pattaya as the complexity of wires in Picture 1. The city operates in a very ordered and very functional manner with a very predictable and desirable outcomes.
Whilst perhaps unsightly in full view, those wires were not put there in one day. They arrived over a period of time and were connected with intent and purpose. Rome wasn’t built in a day either and for you to reap the reward of being as energy-efficient as you possibly can in your home will not happen overnight either. One step at a time to arrive at a better destination along the continuum is well worth the effort, even if the Rules of Engagement continue to change as your journey progresses. Input tariffs continue to drop but then so have the price of solar panels as their efficiencies have increased. Energy efficient appliances are more readily available as time progresses and a household’s electrical habits and consumption profile play a major part in in your family’s energy efficient success . The best time to start the journey was yesterday but we are always working from now so the best time to get started is as soon as you can. In a world that is changing almost daily, the more energy efficient and self-sufficient you can become the better. The technology is readily available, the knowledge of how to apply it is easily obtained and the rewards are manifold. >>>LEARN MORE>>>
Am I sorry that we have set ourselves up so that we don’t get an electricity bill?
Am I sorry that we get paid for supplying electricity to the grid?
Am I sorry that our family home is thermally comfortable to live in all year?
Am I sorry that our understanding and practices locate us on the better end of the electrical consumption continuum?
No I’m not. You can share in some of the benefits if you choose to do so.
It’s easy to do if you do it one step at a time and find the simple order out of the chaos.
John Lynn