New Clean Heat grants available for Reefton Homeowners
There is a new subsidy available for homeowners in Reefton to insulate their homes and upgrade their heating appliances.
If your home is within the Regional Council’s Reefton airshed and you are willing to decommission your existing burner or open fire and replace it with an efficient clean heater (either a compliant woodburner, heat pump or pellet fire) you become eligible for a subsidy of $1,000 ($2,000 if you have a Community Services Card) toward the decommissioning of your old appliance and the installing of a new one.
Insulation funding is also available and must be taken up at the same time that the new heating appliance is installed. The insulation grant is up to 33% of the total insulation cost, or 60% of the total cost for Community Services Card holders.
To help home owners in Reefton take up this generous offer the West Coast Regional Council intends to establish a voluntary targeted rates scheme to assist homeowner’s to meet their share of the insulation and clean heat appliance upgrade. Council can fund the remaining cost of both the insulation and the new heating appliance. Repayments would be spread over the next ten years and recovered via your regional rates bill. The debt remains with the property, so if you sell your home the new owner will complete the payments.
By assisting homeowners with insulating their homes and replacing older, inefficient heating appliances with new cleaner burning wood burners or heat pumps, the Government and the Regional Council hope to improve winter air quality in Reefton. It will also save on energy use, and improve Reefton people’s respiratory health.
Please contact the Council on 0508 800 118 for further information or click here.