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Metering plan implementation grants

Learn more about how your business can start saving on your energy costs.

Key info

  • Round one applications are now closed
  • Sign up to be notified when future grant rounds become available.

Implementing metering and monitoring systems is a critical step to identify energy-saving opportunities and establish the case for equipment upgrades.

Metering and monitoring can help you unlock data about your energy use and:

  • save around 5 to 15% in energy costs
  • improve energy performance
  • understand if electrification is practical at your site  
  • access government support for equipment upgrades.

The Metering Plan Implementation Grants are part of the $12 million metering package that supports businesses across the different stages of the metering and monitoring process. This will help NSW businesses overcome barriers to improving energy performance and help NSW reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Tip Top, one of the largest producers of bread and bakery products in Australia, took advantage of our previous program and upgraded its metering system at its Chullora manufacturing site. Daniel Barrett, the Operational Excellence Systems Specialist at Tip Top, said:

‘What really surprised us most were the unexpected places that we found energy savings… So far, we have measured a 6% decrease in annualised energy use… and are planning to roll out submetering systems for our 14 other manufacturing sites across Australia and New Zealand’

To learn more about how Tip Top reduced their energy consumption by installing submeters on-site, watch our case study.

Round one grants are now closed

Applications for round 1 grants closed on 29 July 2024. Sign up to be notified when future grant rounds become available. 

Successful applicants will be notified within 4 weeks of their application. For more information and to learn what happens after an application, please read: 

For more information, you can read our frequently asked questions.

If you have any questions about the metering plan implementation grants, please contact us at [email protected].

Frequently asked questions

Which costs are eligible as part of the grant?

The grant will only co-fund the following costs:

  • costs to install and commission permanent submeters that are required for measuring energy performance
  • hardware and integration with the software needed to monitor energy use
  • first-year subscriptions to data management systems.

To find the full list of incurred costs excluded from this grant, please read the funding guidelines
 

When will I be able to access the funds?

If your application is successful, we’ll send you a funding deed. 

You’ll have 20 business days from the date we send it to you to sign and return the deed. The funding deed is only binding once we have signed it. 

You’ll have 6 months to complete your project from the day of the commencement of the funding deed.

Once you provide evidence that you’ve completed the project in accordance with your funding deed, you’ll receive payment. 

For more information about the funding agreement, please review our sample funding deed

What is a complex energy system?

A complex energy system typically includes a combination of: 

  • multiple processes e.g. refrigeration and heating 
  • multiple distribution systems e.g. steam and compressed air 
  • multiple energy types e.g. electricity and gas 
  • multiple end uses e.g. furnaces, freezers, pasteurisers. 

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