Metering Plan Implementation Grant round 2 helps eligible NSW businesses with implementing comprehensive metering and monitoring upgrades, informed by detailed metering and monitoring plans. 

Metering Plan Implementation Grant round 2 provides eligible NSW businesses between $20,001-$100,000 funding covering up to 50% of costs to implement comprehensive metering and monitoring upgrades, informed by detailed metering and monitoring plans.

The Grant objectives are to:

• improve energy performance in NSW businesses.
• enable businesses to identify, prepare and verify energy and emissions reduction projects.
• provide robust data to site managers to make informed investment decisions that help achieve net zero emissions objectives.
• demonstrate the link between energy metering and monitoring systems and energy and cost savings.

To be eligible for this Grant, you must:

• have a current Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
• deliver your metering plan implementation project at a NSW site address
• spend a minimum of $200,000 annually on energy bills for your business site, or demonstrate an equivalent annual on-site energy use of at least 3,600 gigajoules (GJ). This includes purchased fuels, except fuel for transport. You must submit the most recent available evidence, no more than 18 months old at the time of the application, unless an exception is granted
• be the energy bill payer and have operational control of the site, with authority to install submetering and act on the insights it provides. If you are not the site owner, you must have authorisation from the owner to undertake the project, and provide evidence of this in your application
• have a complex energy system including, but not limited to, a combination of:
  • multiple processes
  • multiple distribution systems
  • multiple energy types
  • multiple end uses
• have an up-to-date energy metering and monitoring plan and a metering schedule dated within 3 years of your application submission
• have valid itemised quotes, detailing individual costs for submeters, software items and activities. Lump-sum quotes will not be considered.

• Email: energyefficiency.program@environment.nsw.gov.au