Deadline: 31 October 2024
The Tasmanian Government is offering a fixed, one-time payment for eligible small businesses through the Small Businesses on Embedded Networks – Rebates for 2024-25 Program to provide energy bill relief to small businesses. 2nd para bana dena: The Australian and Tasmanian Governments recognise that there are a significant number of households and businesses impacted by cost-of-living pressures in Tasmania. These tiers of government committed to provide funding support to help ease cost of living pressures.
Funding Information
- One-off payment of $625.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for this program, you must:
- Be a small business electricity customer who consumes less than 150MWh per year and have evidence of this on an invoice.
- Be able to demonstrate that you are on a metered supply of electricity in an embedded network.
- Embedded network customers are businesses that receive their electricity from an entity such as an embedded network operator, landlord or building owner. This entity purchases electricity from an energy retailer (such as Aurora Energy) and on-sells this electricity to their business tenants through an individually metered connection. Examples of these include:
- shops in a shopping centre
- businesses operating within airports
- tenants in managed office accommodation
- leaseholders at a business estate/industrial parks.
- Small businesses and residential customers that receive their energy through a retailer such as Aurora Energy are not eligible for this program. These customers will automatically receive their dividend via their retailer.
Ineligible Applicants
- Residential households. For information on the residential households grants of $250, please refer to ReCFIT.
- Have received any other small business payment under the Supercharged Renewable Energy Dividend Program.
- Small businesses that directly receive their electricity supply and are invoiced through an authorised retailer (such as Aurora Energy or 1st Energy).
- Any public company as defined in the Corporations Act 2001.
- Any government body, government agency and government business enterprises.
- Any business that is under external administration or bankruptcy.
For more information, visit Australian Government.
