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Past governments created universal health care through Medicare and universal tertiary education through HECS. Now it’s time our federal government offers universal access to cheap, rooftop solar and efficient, electric appliances. With your continued support, we will help them develop the plans and muster the ambition to do it.
Our message is simple: If we electrify everything, we can slash energy bills while eliminating energy emissions. Now, we have the plan that will help Australian households afford the switch.
Wherever we go, people tell us they want to go solar, buy an EV and replace their expensive, polluting gas appliances with efficient, electric alternatives, but the upfront costs are holding them back. We believe no Australian households should be left behind; lower income and financially stressed households have the right to access these technologies to ensure their houses are cheaper to run and safer to live in. Not to mention that if Australian houses and cars were electrified and powered by renewable energy, we would eliminate 25% of our nation’s carbon emissions.
Today, we announced an ambitious and exciting scheme that will put more Australians on the path to electrifying everything. The Electrify Everything Loan Scheme (EELS) provides the financial architecture for the federal government to offer flexible, low-cost loans to all Australian residences to install solar panels, batteries, efficient electric appliances, and an EV, which could save households up to $5000 annually on energy and petrol bills.
Past governments created universal health care through Medicare and universal tertiary education through HECS. Now it’s time our federal government offers universal access to cheap, rooftop solar and efficient, electric appliances. With your continued support, we will help them develop the plans and muster the ambition to do it.
We’re calling on the federal government to help Australian households have access to finance - no matter their income - to create their solar electric home and by doing so, saving Australian households between $1000 - $3000 every year on energy bills and up to $5000 if they electrify their car.
Write to your MP and urge for them to put households first.
Electrifying our homes and cars is the recipe to cut emissions and save money for Australian homes. Let's build an abundant electric future for Australia.
With support from the Australian Government, a delegation of grassroots young community leaders will take Australia's experience of getting off fossil fuels to the international stage at COP31 next week. The delegation, supported by Rewiring Australia, brings together young, regional and community energy leaders working on everything from helping First Nations communities move away from petrol-powered transport to making rooftop solar and household electrification more accessible.
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Analysis of new disconnection data by Rewiring Australia reveals Victorians are shifting away from gas in record numbers, with usage halving in Rochester and declining by more than a third in Ararat amidst significant reductions in Melbourne’s outer suburbs and growth corridors.
The NSW Government has announced it will cut the income threshold for its zero-interest Home Energy Saver loans from $210,000 to $150,000, while the Federal Government is reportedly weighing further cuts to EV salary packaging and home battery support to find budget savings. Rewiring Australia Founder Saul Griffith said both moves were driven by inflation anxiety but would make the problem worse.