Solar Saver helps Darebin residents, businesses and organisations to install solar panels – saving you money on your energy bills. Council pays upfront costs for the system, and you (or your landlord) pay it off through a small additional charge on quarterly rates payments, over up to ten years. Five hundred households have benefited from the program so far and a new round of funding will see installations begin in July 2018.
Darebin City Council in Victoria trialled the Solar Saver scheme in 2014 for 290 pensioner homeowner households. Systems of 1.5-2 kW were installed. Households in this scheme are saving on average $400 per year on electricity bills, which means they are saving approximately $90 per year after repayments for the solar system to Council through the separate rates charge.
Darebin City Council solar power bulk buy
The Darebin City Council solar power bulk buy program is similar to the Solar Saver Program, except participants pay upfront for their solar system, and have a little more flexibility in which kind of system they can choose.
NOTE: Not everyone is eligible for these solar programs. Contact Darebin City Council to see if you qualify. Email solar@darebin.vic.gov.au or phone (03) 8470 8888.
