{"id":10756,"date":"2017-04-27T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T02:53:07","slug":"solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Hot Water Subsidies For Victorians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10758\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10758\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg\" alt=\"Solar hot water subsidies in Victoria\" width=\"636\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power Your Hot Shower With Solar &#8211; Image:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6054837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Nicole-Koehler<\/a>, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Households and businesses in Victoria can still take advantage of added incentives for upgrading their gas and electric hot water systems to solar units.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Heating water is the second largest energy guzzler in a typical Australian home, so it makes good financial sense to take steps to minimize the cost of this activity.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, the installation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarhotwaterquotes.com.au\/start-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar hot water systems<\/a> and heat pumps are accompanied by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarhotwaterquotes.com.au\/learn\/solar-hot-water-rebates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Small Scale Technology Certificates<\/a>&#8221; (STCs) that form the basis of subsidies; usually provided as a point-of-sale discount .<\/p>\n<p>In Victoria, there&#8217;s an added incentive under the<span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_LabelPage\"> Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veet.vic.gov.au\/Public\/Public.aspx?id=Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VEET<\/a>) scheme<\/span>, <span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_LabelPage\">Victorian energy efficiency certificates (VEECs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_LabelPage\">VEECs <\/span><span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_LabelPage\">are electronic certificates created by specified energy saving activities known as Prescribed Activities. Each certificate represents one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) avoided and has a financial value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_LabelPage\">Among the prescribed activities are upgrading:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electric to gas or boosted solar hot water<\/li>\n<li>Solar retrofit on electric hot water<\/li>\n<li>Gas to gas boosted solar hot water<\/li>\n<li>Adding a solar pre-heater on a gas water heater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VEECs apply to all of the above for both business and residential applications. We&#8217;ve also seen an installer recently indicate VEECs are available on air-source heat pumps, but that&#8217;s something we need to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE, MAY 1 :<\/strong> &#8220;Decommissioning an electric resistance water heater and installing an electric boosted solar or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/hot-water\/heat-pump\/\">heat pump water heater<\/a> is an eligible activity under Activity 1E,&#8221; states the VEET office.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The number of VEECs you&#8217;ll receive varies on the size of the system and where you live. As with STCs, the value of a certificate also fluctuates according to supply and demand; but the general range of the full subsidy is generally between $300 and $1,500 &#8211; a significant chunk of change.<\/p>\n<p>Like STCs, the VEEC system is rather complex, so thankfully most installers offer the financial benefit as a point of sale discount if you sign the certificates over to the installation company.<\/p>\n<p>Given the total value of the VEECs in addition to the substantial subsidy associated with the STCs, now is a really good time for Victorians to consider making the switch to solar hot water.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re in Victoria or elsewhere in Australia, you can get three quotes from reputable installers and learn more about saving a bundle on water heating (and what to avoid) at SQ&#8217;s sister site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarhotwaterquotes.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solar Hot Water Quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you haven&#8217;t yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">installed solar panels<\/a>, a good quality electric boost solar hot water system combined with solar PV can slash your water heating bills by up to 90%. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarhotwaterquotes.com.au\/start-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as Finn points out<\/a>, if you already have an instant gas hot water heater, then it makes sense to reuse it as your booster if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Households and businesses in Victoria can still take advantage of added incentives for upgrading their gas and electric hot water systems to solar units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Solar Hot Water Subsidies For Victorians - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Households and businesses in Victoria can still take advantage of added incentives for upgrading their gas and electric hot water systems to solar units.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solar Hot Water Subsidies For Victorians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Households and businesses in Victoria can still take advantage of added incentives for upgrading their gas and electric hot water systems to solar units.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-26T22:07:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-02T02:53:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Solar Hot Water Subsidies For Victorians\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-26T22:07:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-02T02:53:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":481,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-hot-water-victoria-mb0013\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/04\\\/solar-hot-water-subsidies.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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