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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

Hecs for the home: households warm to the idea of a loan scheme to leap from gas to electricity

Elsa Evers of Austinmer
Elsa Evers of Austinmer has solar panels but the high cost of retrofitting her home is hindering her goal to go all electric. Photograph: Anna Warr/The Guardian

When Elsa Evers bought her home an hour’s drive south of Sydney, she and her partner began future-proofing it by adding solar panels and disconnecting the gas to get off fossil fuels and warm their leaky, chilly house.

Four years on, though, Evers is facing mounting obstacles to that goal, not least higher interest rates and rising costs for her three children .

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