Gas companies are luring customers with the offer of rebates on “major” new gas appliances and cash bonuses for connecting to the fossil gas network.
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This is despite the overwhelming evidence that gas is a higher cost, higher emissions option than electric options.
Jemena is offering NSW customers a $500 rebate for replacing a non-gas heater with ducted gas heating and a $400 rebate to replace electric hot water with gas, among other offers.
“Jemena is locking in carbon pollution by continuing to connect appliances in homes to fossil fuel gas infrastructure.”
Brad SmithPolicy & Advocacy DirectorNature Conservation Council
The gas industry and its lobby groups both in Australia and globally have been making increasingly desperate attempts to stem the rising tide of electrification.
The Master Plumbers Australia and New Zealand have launched a national media counter-offensive, warning electrification will result in blackouts and general “insanity.”
Gas Energy Australia used highly questionable modelling to claim that the cost of switching some homes from gas to electric could reach $50,000 and lead to higher emissions than if the household stuck with gas.
However, modelling from Rewiring Australia has estimated that to electrify everything and power it with solar will remove 40 per cent of the nation’s domestic economy emissions and save the average household $3000-5000 per year.