Initiatives to support businesses to become more energy efficient

If your business is looking to reduce its greenhouse emissions here are some initiatives that can help:

Small Business Energy Saver Program

The Small Business Energy Saver Program provides a bonus for small businesses, discounting the cost to upgrade to more energy-efficient equipment. Energy-efficient equipment can save your business on running costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Small businesses must:

• have 1 to 19 employees (full-time equivalent)
• have a commercial (non-residential) premises.

If you are a small business operating out of a rented or leased premises, you must first ensure that you are authorised to have installation activities carried out at the premises.

The Solar for Business Program

The Solar for Business Program is a new initiative designed to support Victorian small businesses to reduce their energy costs by accessing the benefits of renewable energy.   

This initiative will bring down energy bills for small businesses by reducing the upfront cost of the installation of an approved small-scale solar PV system up to 30kW.    

To support the economic recovery of Victorian small businesses and the broader solar sector, 15,000 solar PV rebates will be available over the next three years.