The Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate is to rollout this year the Government’s promised loan scheme for Canberra households planning to install rooftop solar panels but who were facing an up-front financial barrier.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Minister for Water, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Shane Rattenbury made the commitment in a statement announcing that the number of solar generators installed in the ACT last financial year had increased by more than 17 per cent.
Mr Rattenbury said the Sustainable Household Loan Scheme would remove the financial barrier to allow householders access cheaper forms of energy such as rooftop solar.
“This initiative will allow households without the available capital to make the sustainable investment to reduce their power bills immediately,” Mr Rattenbury said.
“Canberrans are playing a significant part in generating the ACT’s 100 per cent renewable electricity supply,” he said.
“I encourage Canberrans to look how they can contribute to Canberra’s clean energy future.’
He said the Directorate’s report 2019-2020 Annual Feed-in Tariff showed there were now more than 28,000 solar generators in Canberra, with over 119,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy generated in 2019-2020, an increase of 18.8 per cent.
The Directorate’s nine-page report can be accessed at this PS News link.
