Submission to Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency – Residential Energy Efficiency Team
(September 2011)
COTA Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the mandatory disclosure of residential building energy, greenhouse and water performance.
This brief submission is based on COTA’s concern that the rising costs of essential services are leading to ‘essential services poverty’ among older people. Rising electricity prices in particular are of serious concern and these costs are certain to continue to rise in the near future as network asset replacement and improvement programs across Australia continue.
