Incentives

Our Programs

Alice Solar City provides a range of services, financial incentives and other offerings designed to make your operations more energy efficient and more competitive. These include:

Small Business Energy Efficiency Program

For small businesses, Alice Solar City will undertake an energy survey of their operations. The aim of the survey is to identify energy efficiency opportunities for the business premises. Based on the finding from the survey, a range of standard energy efficiency measures will be discusses and recommended to the business owner.

Should the business wish to proceed an Alice Solar City incentive offer may be issued for the agreed set of measures for up to 35% of costs, with a total incentive cap of up to $10,000 per customer. The customer then arranges for installation of the recommended measures (using Alice Solar City registered suppliers and supporting local businesses wherever possible).

After installation, the supplier’s detailed invoice is presented to Alice Solar City along with the voucher to receive the incentive payment.

In addition to the standard incentives, customers can apply for inclusion in this program of a custom energy efficiency measure specific to their business. This could for example be a specialist piece of equipment which demonstrates best practice and substantial energy savings.

 

Large Business Energy Audit Program

For the purposes of Alice Solar City, Large Business is defined as those consuming more than 160 MWh of energy per annum at their main premises.

For these organisations, the Commercial Energy Survey focuses on identifying the organisation’s major areas of energy consumption, and looking at energy management and reporting practices.

Larger organisations are then encouraged, where appropriate, to engage a professional energy auditor to conduct a detailed energy audit. This type of audit incorporates expert knowledge of larger scale plant and equipment, and provides an analysis of the cost and payback period of identified energy efficiency opportunities.

Alice Solar City maintains a list of Registered Energy Auditors, and may provide an incentive of 50% of the cost of engaging one of these auditors up to an incentive cap of $8,500. The audit can then form the basis for developing an organisational energy management plan.

 

Large Business Energy Efficiency Program

Large business participants can apply through this program to receive a subsidy of 35% on the capital costs of implementing energy efficiency measures up to a cap of $25,000. These measures should be identified through a detailed professional energy audit and be part of an overall energy management plan within the organisation.

To encourage larger, more innovative projects, grants of up to $50,000 may be available.

Applications for this program are via a separate application form, via which the customer provides details of the proposed project and demonstrates the energy and innovation benefits.

Cost Reflective Tariff Package

Businesses can move to a cost reflective pricing structure, which involves having their existing electricity meters replaced with a Smart Meter that logs electricity use at regular intervals, and moving to a peak and off-peak pricing structure. The customer can then opt to have installed a wireless display unit which provides information on instantaneous and historical energy use at your fingertips.

This package will be of most benefit to customers who can shift their electricity consumption to off-peak periods.
 

What Next?

To register your business, contact the Commercial Services Manager on (08) 8950 4352 or visit the Smart Living Centre.

Alternatively, you can download our manual registration form.

For more information on how the program can benefit your business or organisation, download our Business Opportunities Flyer.

Have a look at our Business Tips also.

For a printable summary of the Commercial Incentive Program offerings, download our fact sheet.

View the current Commercial Incentive Program Customer Terms.

Visit our links page for some useful commercial sector sustainability related sites.

 

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