Community Housing Energy Performance Grant

The grant is open to registered, approved, and compliant CHPs in NSW under the NRSCH tiers 1, 2, and 3. It supports energy performance upgrades in social housing properties to improve liveability and help tenants reduce energy bills.

The program has the following objectives:

• Improve the thermal comfort of tenants in social housing properties by installing reverse cycle air conditioning systems, ceiling fans, ceiling insulation and supporting home improvements such as draught proofing and window shading.
• Reduce tenants’ energy consumption by installing energy efficient equipment such as solar systems and heat pump hot water systems.
• Reduce the financial cost of energy for tenants by improving the energy performance of social housing properties.
• Reduce carbon emissions from social housing properties that contribute to NSW Government emission reduction targets.

Grant funding must be used to install one or more of the following eligible upgrades:

• solar PV systems
• reverse-cycle air conditioners
• heat pump hot water systems
• ceiling fans
• LED lighting
• window shading
• ceiling insulation
• draught proofing.

These upgrades must be installed on social housing properties owned or managed by CHPs.

If an applicant would like to include any energy upgrade technology that is not listed above, the applicant can request a clarification from the Department.