What is Community Savers?
Community Savers is a funding stream under the Public Facilities Program, under the NSW Climate Change Fund. The Public Facilities Program aims to assist water and energy savings in public and community facilities in NSW. The focus is on projects delivering real water and energy savings and generating community support. It provides $30 million over five years. Projects must save: • drinkable water supplied from a reticulated water supply network in NSW, and/or • electricity and related greenhouse gas emissions and/or reduce peak electricity demand in NSW. The Public Facilities Program also has a Demonstration stream but this will not continue. This follows a recommendation made by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of NSW (IPART) within their 2009 review of NSW climate change mitigation measures.
