Some Alberta condo owners left out of utility rebate programs ahead of winter
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A provincial condo owners group was 'surprised and quite disappointed' when the associate minister of natural gas and electricity told them they were ineligible for rebates.
A group of Alberta condominium owners proposing a way to allow attached homes to receive the province’s electricity and natural gas rebates was left without answers after writing the associate minister of natural gas and electricity.
“We were surprised and quite disappointed,” Phil Rosenzweig of the Condo Owners Forum Society of Alberta (COF) said.
“The letter said that as far as he was concerned, the importance of the program to the department was to get it out quickly and seamlessly to Albertans.”
Announced in early March, the $50-per-month electricity rebate was to be paid back on Albertans’ electricity bills via their energy provider. But buildings with multiple units on one meter are not eligible.
“Unfortunately, like utility companies, the government does not have a direct path or the necessary information to issue rebates to sub-metered residential units since they are not enrolled with a direct provider,” associate minister Dale Nally wrote to COF in mid-August. “These units are behind the utility meter and cannot be easily verified.”
Nally also noted a “lack of visibility” into which condos have utility costs as part of the condo fees “further complicates the situation.”
That letter was in response to a seemingly simple proposal from the condo owners: have the condominium corporation vouch for and disburse rebates for the number of units that are already registered with the government as part of condo documents.
“There’s no reason why government cannot determine how many units are in a condominium based on information that is readily available,” Rosenzweig said.
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