{"id":25651,"date":"2018-11-12T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25651"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:02:20","slug":"victoria-labor-solar-renters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-labor-solar-renters\/","title":{"rendered":"Up To 75% Off Solar For Renters &#8212; If Victorian Labor Reelected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25736\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25736\" class=\"wp-image-25736 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/solar-renters-vic.jpg\" alt=\"solar for renters in Victoria\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/solar-renters-vic.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/solar-renters-vic-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/solar-renters-vic-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/solar-renters-vic-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vic Labor promises cheap solar for renters. Smart move.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Victorian Labor has announced a scheme to put solar panels on the roofs of rental properties and allow tenants to benefit from the lower electricity bills it provides.\u00a0 The catch is it relies on Labor being reelected on the 24th.\u00a0 But, looking on the bright side, if the Victorian Liberals win I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be willing to give your landlord a subsidy to mine brown coal under your backyard<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot of information available on the solar for renters program.\u00a0 The state government has entered &#8220;caretaker mode&#8221;, so at the moment there is no update on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solar.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Victoria site<\/a>.\u00a0 (And there may never be one!)\u00a0 At this time all we&#8217;ve really got to go on is a <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5b46af5a55b02cea2a648e93\/t\/5be38577352f53b275e555b0\/1541637500920\/181108+-+Renters+To+Benefit+From+Labor%E2%80%99s+Solar+Panels+Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s main points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government will pay 50% of the cost of rooftop solar, and the landlord and tenant contribute 25% each.<\/li>\n<li>The tenant pays off their share of the cost over 4 years through a levy on their rent.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the 50% rebate, landlords will be able to get low interest loans for the remaining cost.<\/li>\n<li>$82 million will be provided for 50,000 rental properties over a period of 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>Owner corporations will be eligible if they demonstrate the benefits will be passed on to tenants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve gotten what we know out of the way, I&#8217;ll see if I can stretch this article out to 1,000 words with some educated guesses and crappy jokes.<\/p>\n<h2>A $1,300 Limit?<\/h2>\n<p>The press release says the solar for renters scheme will expand the rollout of the current Solar Homes program, which you can read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-rebate-update\/#enref-23566-1\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The maximum rebate it offers is $2,225 and it&#8217;s possible it will be the same for solar for renters.\u00a0 In the press release they give an example where they say the rebate will be $2,000 for a $4,000 system.\u00a0 But looking at what they have budgeted the numbers don&#8217;t add up.<\/p>\n<p>For Solar Homes, Vicky Govo says they budgeted $68 million for 24,000 homes.\u00a0 This comes to $2,833 each with a maximum rebate of $2,225 per home.\u00a0 But solar for renters has a budget of $82 million for 50,000 residences which makes the total amount available only $1,640 each.\u00a0 If we assume the same portion of money budgeted goes towards rebates then the maximum rebate available would only be around $1,300.\u00a0 This limit would be hit when a system&#8217;s cost reaches $2,600 and that&#8217;s not going to buy a whole lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is the rebate will be the same as for Solar Homes and Vicky Govo is just really bad at maths.\u00a0 Whatever it turns out to be, it will still be better than a poke in the eye with a blunt smoke stack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Coal-Fired Power Plant Smokestack\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6DXsfogJVx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I presume if you have a block of flats with 10 units you could install a single large solar power system and receive up to 10 times the maximum rebate for a single residence, but that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s Only Enough For 6% Of Victorian Rental Homes<\/h2>\n<p>One-third of Victorian households rent, which means there&#8217;s around 825,000 residential rental properties in the state.\u00a0 As solar for renters will only provide 50,000 rebates, this is only enough to cover about 6% of the total.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a lot, so if you are interested in getting this rebate make sure you don&#8217;t leave it too late and miss out.\u00a0 But without more details I can&#8217;t even take a wild guess at how quick the uptake may be.\u00a0 As it is a 10 year scheme they may only dole out 5,000 rebates a year.<\/p>\n<h2>Rebate Uptake For Private Homes Has Been Fast<\/h2>\n<p>The Victorian Government says almost 11,000 of the 24,000 solar rebates available for private residences have been taken.\u00a0 So the Solar Homes rebate bucket is close to half empty after less than 3 months.\u00a0 My prediction the rebates could run out in February is looking good at the moment.<\/p>\n<h2>There Is A Stupid Mistake In The Press Release<\/h2>\n<p>Whoever wrote the press release for the Victorian government made a stupid error.\u00a0 If you can see what it is below just shout it out.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t hear you, but it amuses me to imagine people doing that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/error1.gif\" alt=\"Solar For Renters\" width=\"1096\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you see it?\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s right!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not Labor that will cover half the cost, it&#8217;s the Victorian Government that will.\u00a0 It will be a Labor Government but it&#8217;s not the same thing.\u00a0 Not unless Victorian Labor is planning to pay for it out of party funds, which would be awfully generous of them.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;$4,000 panel&#8221; thing is an amusing mistake but easily made and, unlike the other one, quite forgivable.<\/p>\n<h2>Emission Reductions<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really possible to say how much additional solar panel capacity will be installed thanks to the solar for renters scheme.\u00a0 Especially since it will run over 10 years and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\">cost of rooftop solar<\/a> is still falling.\u00a0 But if I very conservatively say it results in 50,000 installations that average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/3kw\/\">3 kilowatts<\/a> each that&#8217;s a total of 150 megawatts of solar capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria is the least sunny mainland state and not all the systems will face north, so let&#8217;s say they generate an average of 10.5 kilowatt-hours a day.\u00a0 Over a year that will come to 575 gigawatt-hours of electricity from rental rooftops.\u00a0 This will mostly displace coal generation<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-labor-solar-renters\/#en-25651-1' id='enref-25651-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25651)'>1<\/a><\/sup> which emits around 1 kilogram of CO2 per kilowatt-hour generated.\u00a0 So solar for renters will reduce CO2 emissions by about 575,000 tonnes per year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s equivalent to taking 190,000 cars off the road or 14 Brits off curry vindaloo.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-labor-solar-renters\/#en-25651-2' id='enref-25651-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(25651)'>2<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 It will reduce emissions and lower electricity bills for renters for $82 million dollars in government funding.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $12.75 per Victorian assuming 50,000 tenants and landlords can agree to take up the offer.<\/p>\n<p>It definitely looks like a better deal than what South Australians have.\u00a0 The SA Australian Government decided to spend $100 million, or $58 per South Australian, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-battery-subsidy-update\/\">subsidise home battery systems<\/a>.\u00a0 While it is difficult to say what the effect of a home battery on emissions will be over its 10+ year lifespan, at the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-helps-environment-but-batteries-harm-it\/\">they increase CO2 emissions<\/a> (and lose money for the householder).\u00a0 As a South Australian I&#8217;m feeling a bit dopey by association.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s 1,000 words, so I&#8217;ll stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Labor has announced a scheme to put solar panels on the roofs of rental properties and allow tenants to benefit from the lower electricity bills it provides.\u00a0 The catch is it relies on Labor being reelected on the 24th.\u00a0 But, looking on the bright side, if the Victorian Liberals win I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be 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