Hot Water Rebates

Hot Water Rebates

Hot Water Rebates that apply to Adelaide households.

There are 3 hot water rebates that apply to Adelaide households:

SA Plumbing & Hot Water can claim government rebates and RECS for you, we make hot water replacement so easy.

1. SA Govt Rebate

The South Australian Government's Solar Hot Water Rebate Scheme gives a rebate of $500 against the cost of a new solar or electric heat pump water heater system installed on or after 1st July 2008.

The Rebate Scheme is targeted at low income households.

Eligible applicants are home owners who install a complying water heater, to serve their principal place of residence; and at the time of installation, hold at least one of the following Australian Government concession cards:

• Centrelink Health Care Card
• Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card
• DVA Gold Card - Totally and Permanently Incapacitated
• DVA Gold Card - War Widow
• DVA - Extreme Disablement Adjustment

Commonwealth Seniors Health Card and Medicare card are not eligible.

Pensioner allowance or retirement funds paid by foreign countries are not valid.

More information about the rebate can be found at the www.dtei.sa.gov.au website

2. $1000/$600 Commonwealth Rebate.

The Commonwealth $1000 solar/$600 heat pump rebate is available to help eligible householders, landlords and tenants replace their electric hot water systems with solar or heat pump hot water systems.

The Solar Hot Water Rebate is only available to people who have not previously received assistance to install ceiling insulation through the Home Insulation Program or the Homeowner Insulation Program at this address.

The $600 rebate for heat pump hot water systems is for systems purchased and installed on or after 5 September 2009. Heat pump hot water systems purchased or installed on or prior to 4 September 2009 may be eligible for a $1000 rebate if proof of purchase or installation prior to this date is included with the application.

Eligible Systems.

• To be eligible, a hot water system must;

• Replace an electric storage hot water system.

• Be purchased and installed on, or after 3Feb. 2009.

• Be a solar or heat pump system that qualifies for at least 20 RECS at time and place of the install.

• Be installed by a suitably qualified person.

Eligible Housholds.

• An owner occupier, landlord or tenant can apply for the rebate as long as the dwelling where the hot water system is installed is the principal place of residence.

More information about the $1000/$600 Commonwealth Rebate can be found at the www.environment.gov.au website.

3.Renewable Energy Certificates.(RECs)

When you purchase a solar hot water unit, there are RECS associated with your individual unit choice.

RECs are effectively a type of rebate that we can purchase from you and then trade onto RECs users.

You can check how many RECs for what type of solar unit from the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator Register

The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator has more information about Renewable Energy Certificates, but essentially, RECs :

• are an electronic form of currency initiated by the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000;
• may be created, on the internet based registry system (known as the REC Registry), by eligible parties for each megawatt-hour of eligible renewable electricity generated or deemed to have generated;
• are created by registered persons;
• are validated by the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator;
• are registered;
• are traded between registered persons;
• are eventually surrendered to demonstrate liability compliance against the requirements of the Australian Government's mandatory renewable energy target or voluntary surrender. More information on Voluntary Surrender; and
• may be traded separately from the physical electricity in a REC market.

4. Envestra Natural Gas Plumber Hot Water Incentive Scheme

A $500 incentive is available to applicants who meet the eligibility criteria summarized below and only plumbing contractors registered with Envestra can lodge this claim on your behalf.

This incentive is only available for upgrading electric to natural gas hot water for existing homes already connected to natural gas or the gas main is passing the property

The Water Heater incentive is payable where a home owner purchases a Natural Gas operated hot water system. However the incentive is not payable where the hot water system is being purchased in replacement of an existing Natural Gas operated hot water system.

Only one such incentive is payable per home.

SA Plumbing & Hot Water is a registered plumbing company with Envestra for this promotion and has to lodge the claim on your behalf.

We deduct $500.00 directly from your quoted hot water installation price so ask us for more information.

Further Considerations.

See our faqs for questions about rebates and how they apply to your future hot water costs.

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