Government Rebates Solar Electricity | Government Solar Electricity Rebates

Currently, Solar Government Rebates for solar electricity come from one of two sources:

1. Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) created from solar electricity installations vary according to the size of the system package chosen. Chromagen will assist you with the completion of the Government Form which can be claimed upon the completion of the solar installation.

2. Solar Credits
The Solar Credit scheme was established in June 2009 for the purpose of providing homes, small businesses and other eligible premises an incentive for installing solar electricity systems (in the absence of the $8000 photovoltaic rebate program that was discontinued in June 2009).

Solar government rebates

The Solar Credit scheme falls under the umbrella of the Expanded Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET). This scheme gives the owners of solar electricity systems the right to create five times as many Renewable Energy Certificates (REC’s) as the solar electricity system would normally be eligible for. Eligible owners will receive five times as many REC’s up to the first 1.5kW. For systems 1.5kW and above, the normal REC calculation will apply. The five times calculation will need to be added to the normal REC calculation in order to obtain the total number of REC’s eligible for the solar installation. For example, if a 2kW system was installed, the first 1.5kW would receive five times REC’s and the other .5kW would receive the normal REC’s (no multiplier).

The solar credit scheme is regulated by the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER) and will be administered in the same way to the current REC scheme.