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Metering and monitoring planning

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Expressions of interest for the metering and monitoring planning initiative are now open.

Assessing and understanding your current energy metering helps you identify gaps in your business’s systems and shows you how improving your metering systems could help cut energy use and costs, and improve your operations.  

Through the metering and monitoring planning initiative, we are providing up to $1.5 million to support NSW businesses to identify their gaps and take steps to address them.

How we can help

Connecting you with specialists

To develop your metering and monitoring plans, we have selected several service providers who will partner with you to assess your facility’s metering and monitoring needs. Your service provider will then develop a new plan that includes costed proposals and recommendations to improve your metering and monitoring system.

Providing financial support to cover the cost

We are providing up to $15,000 per metering and monitoring plan, depending on your facility’s annual spending on non-transport energy. This is paid directly to the service provider responsible for your plan.

We have also provided grants for metering and monitoring plan implementation.

How to apply

We’re excited to help NSW businesses develop metering and monitoring plans. To get involved and arrange for an assessment, follow these steps.

1. Check your eligibility

To be eligible for an assessment, you will need to:

  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for GST
  • be a business in a manufacturing sector or, another industrial or commercial sector if you have a complex energy system that requires a comprehensive metering plan
  • be a site or facility located in NSW
  • spend more than $200,000 on energy annually per site, including all purchased fuels, except fuel for transport
  • have a clear and justifiable objective for developing a metering and monitoring plan
  • have a complex energy system in terms of the number of processes, distribution systems, energy types and/or end uses involved
  • have no metering and monitoring plan completed under this program for another site/facility of yours that has a similar energy system.

If a metering and monitoring plan is for a commercial building:

  • the base building energy consumption must be addressed
  • the occupancy certificate must have been issued prior to 1 January 2022.

2. Complete an expression of interest

Expressions of interest are now open for eligible businesses, and will close when funding has been exhausted.  

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in developing a metering and monitoring plan. We will then connect you with our selected service providers to organise an assessment. 


The information you provide in this form will only be used for the purpose for which it was collected. By submitting, you consent to storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with our privacy statement.

Contact us

If you have any questions or would like some additional information, please contact us at [email protected]