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What is the Energy Efficiency Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises?
The Energy Efficient Communities Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises provides grants of up to $25,000 to eligible small businesses to improve their energy efficiency.
Background
The Energy Efficiency Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Round 1 will support businesses to upgrade or replace inefficient equipment to improve their energy efficiency. These upgrades will enable industries to reduce their energy use and manage energy cost volatility in the long term. This will contribute to Australia’s target of a 43% reduction on 2005 emission levels by 2030.
Objectives
The objectives of the Energy Efficiency Grants for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises are to:
- improve energy efficiency practices and increase the uptake of energy efficient technologies
- assist small and medium businesses to manage their energy usage and costs
- reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The intended outcomes of the program are:
- increased awareness of energy efficiency opportunities and help businesses to save energy
- reduced power bills for small and medium businesses
- emissions abatement to contribute to Australia reducing its emissions to 43% below 2005 levels by 2030.
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Funding
The Australian Government has announced a total of $62.6 million for the program. For this first round grant opportunity, a total of $16 million is available.
The grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project expenditure.
The minimum grant amount is $10,000 and the maximum grant amount is $25,000
Eligible Projects
To be eligible your project must:
- be aimed at reducing the energy consumption of your business in Australia
- have at least $10,000 in eligible expenditure
- include one or more of the activities listed in Appendix B of the guidelines
Eligible expenditure items are:
- an energy audit of your site or part of your site
- purchase or hire of equipment to measure, monitor and record energy use or to monitor a process, where this facilitates optimisation or energy management
- purchase of equipment to replace existing equipment, where the new equipment is higher energy efficiency
- costs to decommission, remove and dispose of the old equipment that is replaced
- purchase of equipment or components to help an existing system run more efficiently in regard to energy
- design, and reasonable installation costs of eligible equipment, including any necessary wiring or other electrical work required to enable the project
- commissioning or tuning of equipment installed or modified as part of the project, and any related equipment that is affected by the project
- building permits or approval costs to install equipment, where required
- the cost of suppliers, consultants and contracted labour undertaking eligible project activities.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible you must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and be one of the following entity types:
- an entity incorporated in Australia
- a partnership
- a sole trader.
You must also:
- be a small or medium sized business with an employee headcount from 1 to 199 employees averaged over any consecutive 12-month period since 1 July 2019
- have consent from the owner of the project location to undertake the project, if the entity is not the owner of the project location.
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Timing
Applications close 19 April 2023.
