Calculating and claiming your 10:10/20:20 rebate

What is the 10:10/20:20 Energy Saving Incentive?

 If you have had a Home Energy Survey and you’ve begun to implement the recommendations in your report such as turning off the Solar Hot Water booster, changing your light globes or installing shading, you should begin to see your electricity consumption drop. If you can reduce your electricity consumption by 10% or more compared to the consumption for the same billing period of the previous year, Alice Solar City will credit your next bill by 10%. Reduce your average daily use by 20% or more and receive a 20% credit.   

You can start to claim the 10:10/20:20 rebate from the first complete billing period after you have registered with Alice Solar City.  You must also have lived in the same house and have electricity bills under your name for the corresponding quarter of the previous year to be able to make the claim. The 10:10/20:20 rebate is calculated on the daily average electricity consumption measured in kilowatt hours (kWh) and the amount you are paid is based on the value of electricity saved. If  you make a successful 10:10/20:20 claim, it will appear as a credit on the following power bill (refer to the back page of your bill, under Payments Received).

You will need your current power bill as well as the bill for the same period the previous year.  If you don’t have your bill from the previous year, contact Alice Solar City as your previous consumption records have been supplied to us by Power and Water.

You will also need to read the service charges on the back of both your bills. Refer to the fact sheet “How to Read your Electricity Bill “ for assistance in locating the information needed.

To work out your 10:10/20:20 rebate you can use our online calculator or you can click here to print out these instructions and use the table below.

If you have any difficulty with these instructions or the on-line calculator, feel free to contact the Smart Living Centre. We will be happy to do the calculations for you.

1. In column A put in the total consumption in kWh (if you are on a Cost Reflective Tariff, include the sum of the peak and off-peak consumption).

2. In Column B put in the days in the period

3. Divide the figure in Column A by the figure in Column B and put the result in Column C. This is you per day average consumption in kWh for the previous year.

4. In Column D put in the total consumption in kWh

5. In Column E put in the days in period

6. Divide the figure in Column D by figure in Column E and put the result in Column F. This is your per day average consumption in kWh for the current bill.

7. Put the tariff rate as shown on your current power bill in Column G. If you are Cost Reflective Tariffs use the standard flat tariff rate (for 2008/2009 use 0.1552, for 2009/2010 use 0.1831, for 2010/2011 use 0.1923)

    

To work out if you have made a reduction from your previous period daily average consumption and how much that reduction is.

Take the value of Column F from the value of Column C then divide the result by the value of Column C  and multiply this by 100 to turn it to a percentage. i.e. ((Column C -Column F)/Column C) x100.  Put this result in Column H. This gives your reduction in your consumption as a percentage and is used to work out your rebate.

To work out the amount of any rebate

9. If the result in Column H (i.e. the reduction in consumption) is less than 10 percent – you will not receive a rebate. If the result in Column H is a negative – your energy consumption has increased.

Click here or contact us the Smart Living Centre  to find out ways you can reduce your energy consumption.

1.  If the result in Column H is 10 percent or more but less than 20 percent you will receive a rebate of 10 percent.

11. If the result in Column H is 20 percent or more you will receive a rebate of 20 percent

1. If you have reduced your energy consumption by at least 10%, we will arrange for a credit to be paid against your next Power and Water electricity bill. This will appear on your bill as an amount already paid, identified as a 10:10/20:20 Payment in the Payments Received Section, on the back of your bill
2. You can continue to claim 10:10/20:20 each quarter for as long as you can continue to reduce your daily average consumption on your energy bill by at least 10 percent as compared to the same period in the previous year.