FEDERAL FUNDING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS

Federal Member for Lyne Dr David Gillespie today congratulated seven local businesses on securing Federal funding for energy efficiency improvements within their operations.

Dr Gillespie said the Australian Government had announced the successful recipients under the first round of the Energy Efficiency Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises program.

The grants can be used for a broad range of measures including installing heat pumps, lighting upgrades, space and water heating improvements and installing energy monitoring systems.

Local businesses who successfully applied for a grant in Round 1 include:

Applicant Details                     Project Title                                                     Grant Amount

AUSTRO SERVICES                    Removal of old A/C with new split system               $25,000

LAWNLAR                                      Refrigeration Upgrade                                                   $25,000

REVIRESCO ENTERPRISES      Reduction of energy consumption costs                 $25,000

BIRD HILL CHICKENS                Electrification of pumping equipment                      $25,000

LAURIETON UNITED                  Level 2 Energy Audit and upgrade HVAC                $25,000

SERVICES CLUB                          controls

H F HAND CONSTRUCTORS   Welding Machines Energy Efficiency Upgrade     $23,000

LYNDON NEVINS                     Energy Efficiency Upgrades                                $25,000

While welcoming the funding assistance to the successful applicants, Dr Gillespie said the Albanese Government needed to press the reset button on its energy policy before more damage from skyrocketing electricity prices was inflicted on households and businesses.

“Labor’s energy policy is going to continue to see power prices rise, putting a further squeeze on households, businesses and other parts of the economy.

“The massive cost of 28,000km of new poles and wires, batteries, wind turbines and other subsidies will be built into everyone’s power bills which will continue to cripple our economy through very high and unrealistic power prices, and without reliable baseload energy replacement, we will see more and more blackouts,” Dr Gillespie said.

“There is no need to build an entirely new grid. We simply need to embrace new, emissions-free small modular nuclear technology and plug it into the existing system as coal-fired power plants are retired from service,” he added.