It's an exciting time to be building or renovating a home.
Brand new technologies such as energy efficient appliances, heat sources and lighting means our energy consumption is dropping.
It's a good thing, too, as energy prices continue to spiral upwards.
New generation solar panels and battery technology means that, for rural customers, offgrid living now makes more financial sense than paying to be connected to the grid.
That equation is going to work its way towards urban centres as the prices drop.