Green Loans

The Government will help over an additional 600,000 Australian households tackle climate change through a re-designed and extended Green Loans program.

That is on top of the 360,000 assessments already available under the program, of which more than 270,000 have already been booked nationwide.

The re-design of the program will include:

• the discontinuation of the less popular loans component next month to provide for the significant boost to assessment availability;
• a new cap of 5000 assessors, allowing up to an extra 1200 trained assessors to contract with the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts;
• a weekly cap of 15,000 assessment bookings and a daily and weekly cap per assessor of three and five respectively to ensure greater quality and a more even distribution of work for assessors right around the nation;
• changed booking arrangements allowing only individual assessors to make bookings.

These new arrangements will apply to the end of 2010.

• Emma & Christian Pritchett of Pritchett Electrical (0424 466 858) provide green loans assessments and are BCSE accredited renewable energy suppliers.
  
• Pete Cantwell, a Geelong resident has a company called Self Sustain@home
  
• Bruce Waddell who lives in Anglesea is also a certified Green Loans assessor, and can be contacted on 0466 508 657