The easy way to upgrade your home

The Energy Insights subsidy is open to all Stonnington residents and homeowners.

One (1) discounted home energy assessment per residential property located in Stonnington is available. The property must not have had a Residential Efficiency Scorecard assessment completed on it in the previous 5 years.

Council discounts apply to residential homes only. You cannot get a Scorecard assessment in a home that shares heating, ventilation and air conditioning with other dwellings.

To be eligible for a 75% discount you must:

Hold one of the following concession cards:

• Centrelink Health Care Card
• Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card
• Veterans' Affairs Pensioner Concession Card
• Veterans' Affairs Gold Card for all conditions
• Veterans' Affairs Gold Card War Widow/er or TPI
• Veterans' Affairs Gold Card POW & EDA

OR

Identify as one or more of the defined priority communities listed below:

• Lower-income households: Households that do not exceed the moderate income range (annual, before tax) in line with the income ranges in the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
• People living with disability
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) households who use a language other than English at home.
• Community housing residents (this does not include public housing owned by the Victorian Government)
• First Peoples communities
• Older residents, 65+ years old
• Apartment residents
• Renters

A 50% discount is available to all other eligible Stonnington households.

The Energy for Everyone subsidy is for eligible concession card holders and households identifying as a member of priority communities (see below for details) who have completed a home energy assessment (i.e. Residential Energy Efficiency Scorecard, Home Energy Rating (NatHERs for Existing homes), or approved Solar Savers energy assessment) in the last 5 years.

Energy upgrades must align with the recommendations of the assessment.

The Energy for Everyone subsidy is available to the following groups.

• Concession card holders*
• Lower-income households
  • Households that do not exceed the moderate income range (annual, before tax) in line with the income ranges in the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
• People living with disability
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) households who use a language other than English at home (including sign languages, such as AUSLAN)
• Renters
• Community housing residents
  • Note that residents of public housing owned by the Victorian Government are not eligible.
• First Peoples communities
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Older residents (65+)
• Apartment residents
  • Must provide written approval from their Owners Corporation for relevant upgrades.

Rental providers (landlords) may apply on behalf of an eligible tenant.

Renters and community housing residents may apply, however must provide written approval from their landlord/property manager, Owners Corporation, and/or community housing organisation for upgrades to be installed.

*Proof of concession must be submitted on application. Eligible cards include:

Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card, Veterans' Affairs Gold Card for all conditions, Veterans' Affairs Gold Card War Widow/er or TPI, Veterans' Affairs Gold Card POW & EDA

The City of Stonnington's (Council's) Sun Share subsidy offers up to $1,000 (ex. GST) per apartment to support people living in eligible apartment buildings to reduce the upfront cost of installing shared solar PV systems that can lower electricity bills by sharing solar energy fairly between apartments.

Owners corporations (OC) of eligible apartment buildings can receive the Sun Share subsidy. Payment is made to the installer on the OC's behalf, offsetting total project costs. The OC must nominate an authorised representative or "Apartment Champion" to complete the application for the subsidy. This person can be either an owner-occupier or owner-investor of the eligible apartment building, and ideally be well organised and driven to see the application and installation process through to the end.

To be eligible, apartment buildings, OCs and shared solar PV systems must comply with Solar Victoria's Solar for Apartments eligibility criteria

AND

• be located in the City of Stonnington
• be a Class 2 building (e.g. apartment building) (i.e. Class 1a building like townhouses and row units are not eligible);
• install via Council Home Energy Program suppliers.