Abstract: This paper presents a brief summary of a literature review prepared as part of the Alice Solar City (ASC) monitoring and evaluation work and aimed at enabling a comparison between the ASC project and available academic information. The literature reviewed was primarily selected for its relevance to energy conservation within households. Although quite comprehensive, the review is by no means a complete examination of all available literature within the field, and there are few Australian studies available, compared to those from Europe and North America. The broad topics of the review (below) have been summarised within the context of the ASC project.