Metering and Monitoring Planning

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, up to $1.5 million is available to identify metering and monitoring gaps and steps needed 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.

We allocate 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.

Who can submit an expression of interest

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.

Expressions of interest are now closed

Expressions of interest for the Metering and Monitoring Planning Initiative closed 24 February 2026 at 5pm (AEDT). Stay updated about potential future opportunities by signing up to our mailing list.

If you have any questions about the initiative, please contact us by emailing [email protected].  

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