TONY Eastley: Representative of the solar hot water industry will back in Canberra today lobbying for more financial support after a popular discount program suddenly closed was last month.

 

 

The opposition is pushing a Bill to the $1000 discount for another four months to restore, even though this doesn't view to success.

 

Canberra, here Naomi Woodley.

 

NAOMI WOODLEY: Gareth Jennings by the manufacturer Rheem was the closure of solar hot water rebate program in Canberra when the Government abruptly announced at the end of last month.

 

GARETH JENNINGS: The market is at the moment very insecure. I think it is probably another month or so to take for us to understand what the full effect of the change.

 

NAOMI WOODLEY: He come back in Canberra today be in the hope of convincing to extend some longer-term support the Government.

 

GARETH JENNINGS: Even if this discount has always been planned, ending in 2012, to do it in February instead of June, because I most of the industry expected that anyone caught surprised.

 

NAOMI WOODLEY: The Parliamentary State Secretary for climate change and energy efficiency mark Dreyfus, says the industry knew, was the program always to wrap at the end of June.

 

MARK DREYFUS: You know, that it the price of carbon, is that in the budget in the coming be, and which thus related - the large number of related programmes in the Government of the clean energy future program.

 

You know, that it continue certificates for renewable energy for the solar hot water services. They know that the Government and the States are now with the phasing-out of the electric storage hot water provides services and support for solar hot water services continue, and they know that the low carbon of communities to program that will increase the demand for solar energy is hot water services.