A step-by-step guide to how a Cork homeowner cut energy costs

A new RTE Brainstorm podcast based on a piece by MaREI’s Ken Bruton from University College Cork is voiced by Niamh McManus and is available to listen to below.

In the piece, Ken Bruton describes how Gerald Bruton’s campaign to cut energy costs and emissions involved both new technologies and behavioural change. His journey to reduce energy consumption began in early 2022 and was driven more by cost reduction than environmental aspirations. His house is like many others in the country, a 1970s three-bedroom semi-detached located in a western residential housing estate of Cork city.