Rebate finder

What you can get, and what you cannot.

Name: Sunstak, Wollongong
Address: 124-130 Auburn Street, Coniston, NSW, 2500, AU
Telephone: 02 5127 5000

Four schemes across two jurisdictions, and most of what is written about them is out of date or written for another state. This works out which are open to your household, which are shut, and why. And it shows the working.

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Where you live, whether you own the place, the land value, your income, what you are installing. Each scheme tests a different one of those. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Every scheme this checks is set out below with its jurisdiction, its cap and what it tests, so the answer is on the page either way. If you would rather someone walked you through it against your own address:

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Every scheme, and what each one actually tests

Seven pathways, two of them shut. The finder above works out which ones apply to your household; this is all of them, in full, so you can check any of it yourself.

OpenFederal · Australia-wide

Cheaper Home Batteries Program

A discount taken off the price of a home battery at the point of sale, delivered by your installer through small-scale technology certificates. It is not a payment you claim back.

Requires: New or existing rooftop solar. A battery on its own does not qualify, and this is the test people most often fail.
Income test: None. No property value test either.
Eligible size: 5 to 100 kWh installed. Certificates are earned on the first 50 kWh and nothing above it.
Tiered by capacity: 100% of the rate on the first 14 kWh, 60% from 14 to 28, 15% from 28 to 50, and nothing above 50 kWh.
The rate: 6.8 certificates per kWh of eligible capacity today, stepping to 5.7 for installs from 1 January 2027.
How it reaches you: Off the invoice, by the accredited retailer. There is nothing for you to lodge.

Source · Clean Energy Regulator

OpenFederal · Australia-wide

Federal solar certificates (SRES)

The long-running federal scheme that discounts rooftop solar. Your installer claims the certificates and takes the value off the price, so it lands as a discount on the quote, and there is nothing for you to apply for.

Income test: None. No property value test either.
Who lodges it: Your installer. You do not lodge anything.
The rate: Steps down each year on a published schedule, so the same array is worth less the longer it waits.

Source · Clean Energy Regulator

OpenACT

ACT Sustainable Household Scheme

Up to $20,000 for new applicants from 1 July 2026, at 3% interest over up to 10 years. Households already in the scheme stay on the earlier $15,000 cap.

It is a loan: Not a rebate. You repay it, at 3% over up to 10 years, through the scheme's lender, Brighte. No establishment or account fees.
Covers: Batteries, EV chargers, reverse-cycle heating and cooling, hot water heat pumps, electric cooktops, ceiling insulation and electric vehicles.
Does not cover solar: Rooftop solar is not one of the scheme's four product categories. Several pages still say otherwise. If you hold a concession card, solar runs through the Home Energy Support Program instead.
Land value: At or below $750,000 for a house, townhouse or dual occupancy, or $300,000 for a unit-titled multi-storey apartment, in any year from 2022 onward, and it does not have to be this one.
Also tested: ACT resident who owns the home. Mandatory free 1-hour Everyday Climate Choices workshop. Brighte credit check. Property Unimproved Value under $750,000. Minimum loan $2,000, and the cap is cumulative across every product. It does not reset per product.
Not on a new build: A home counts as a new build if it has never been lived in and got its Certificate of Occupancy or Use in the last 12 months.

Source · ACT Government

OpenACT · concession card holders

ACT Home Energy Support Program

Half the installed cost back for households holding an eligible concession card, capped per category, with a zero-interest loan available for the rest. Distinct from the Sustainable Household Scheme: the two get conflated constantly.

Rebate: Half the installed cost, up to $2,500 per category and $5,000 per property.
Loan: Up to $10,000 at 0% interest.
Covers: Rooftop solar between 5.5kW and 8kW, reverse-cycle heating and cooling, hot water heat pumps and evacuated tube solar hot water, electric cooktops and ovens, and ceiling insulation.
Batteries: Not one of the rebate categories. Whether the zero-interest loan can go towards a battery is genuinely unclear in the published guidelines. They say the loan covers all products, but also that it has to be taken alongside a rebate. A battery does not attract one. We are getting that in writing rather than guessing at it.
Eligible cards: Services Australia Pensioner Concession Card, DVA Pensioner Concession Card, DVA Gold Card, Services Australia Health Care Card. The Commonwealth Seniors Health Card does not qualify, and it is the one people most often assume does.
Order matters: Approval has to be granted before anything is installed. Install first and the rebate is gone.

Source · ACT Government

ClosedACT · closed

ACT Next Generation Energy Storage

The ACT's own battery rebate, and the one people still come looking for. It is finished. The last installs under it were 31 March 2023.

What replaced it: Nothing, on the territory side. There is no ACT battery cash rebate today. Territory support for a battery is the Sustainable Household Scheme loan; the money off the price is federal.

Source · ACT Government

OpenNSW

NSW Home Energy Saver loan

A zero-interest loan of up to $15,000 towards approved upgrades: solar, batteries, hot water heat pumps, reverse-cycle air conditioning, insulation, cooktops, switchboard upgrades and EV chargers.

Income: Combined taxable household income up to $210,000.
Ownership: You have to own the property, as an owner-occupier or a landlord. A landlord confirms the tenant has agreed to the upgrade.
Residency: Australian citizen or permanent resident.
Excluded: Social or community housing property. Property used for short-stay rental accommodation. A property that has already had a full Home Energy Saver loan of upgrades.
One per property: $15,000 is the limit per property, per household, and the work goes through a supplier approved by the finance provider.

Source · NSW Government

Not open yetNSW · not yet open

NSW Home Energy Saver discount

A discount of up to $4,000 on the same list of upgrades, for lower-income households. Applications are not open.

Signalled at: Households with income up to $80,000, or holding an eligible concession card.
Still unpublished: Who qualifies, and how the discount interacts with the loan. NSW has said the guidelines are coming, and until they land we are not going to tell you who will get it.
Order, when it opens: NSW has suggested applying for the discount before the loan, so it is worth waiting to see the rules rather than borrowing first.

Source · NSW Government

Rates as at 29 July 2026

Where the next step is different

We work in the ACT and across the Illawarra. The schemes are not the same in each, and neither is the way it starts.

Canberra and the ACT

Someone comes to the house

What a system costs at your place comes down to the switchboard, the phase, the roof and the cable run. All four get looked at on site, and you keep the written design. Nothing is signed on the day.

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Wollongong and the Illawarra

It happens on the phone

Fifteen minutes and you will know what the system costs, what the schemes take off it, and what is left to pay. A subcontractor does the pre-install check once the design is settled.

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The primary sources

Not a retailer's summary of them. Every rule the finder branches on was read off one of these documents.

Clean Energy Regulator: batteriesEligibility, the capacity tiers, and the certificate rate schedule the federal discount is worked out from.
Cheaper Home Batteries ProgramThe national battery discount, and the fact that it reaches you through your installer, so no payment lands in your account.
Small-scale Renewable Energy SchemeThe mechanism behind the discount on rooftop solar itself.
ACT Sustainable Household SchemeThe loan, its cap, its interest rate, and the four product categories, which do not include rooftop solar.
ACT Climate ChoicesThe Home Energy Support Program for concession-card households, and the Everyday Climate Choices workshop both ACT pathways require.
NSW Home Energy SaverThe zero-interest loan, its income test, and the discount that has not opened yet.