Community Energy Upgrades Fund Round 1

The Community Energy Upgrades program will co-fund energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for local governments to deliver reduced energy bills and emissions from local government owned and/or operated facilities.

Closed
This grant is currently closed to applications

What do you get?

Grants between $25,000 and $2,500,000 to cover up to 50% of eligible expenditure.

Who is this for?

Local government bodies.

Overview

The Community Energy Upgrades Fund will deliver $100 million over 2 funding rounds and will run over 3 years from 2024-25. The program will co-fund energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for local governments to deliver reduced energy bills and emissions from local government owned and/or operated facilities. The program will contribute to Australia meeting its emission reduction targets of 43 percent by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050, and support 82% renewable electricity generation by 2030. It will also support the Commonwealth-led National Energy Performance Strategy (NEPS).

The objectives of the program are to support:

  • the Government’s broader efforts to reduce emissions and improve energy performance and contribute to Australia meeting its emission reduction targets of 43 percent by 2030, Net-Zero emissions by 2050 and 82% renewable electricity generation by 2030
  • local governments to decarbonise their operations and reduce energy bills through energy efficiency and load flexibility upgrades and electrification of their facilities
  • the improvement in energy performance necessary to utilise renewable electricity more easily and improve system reliability.

The intended outcomes of the program are:

  • reduced energy bills and emissions from local government owned and/or operated facilities
  • installed energy efficiency, load flexibility and electrification technology that is commercially available
  • improved capability of local governments and the wider community to implement energy upgrades and electrification projects in their facilities
  • increased capacity of domestic supply chains and labour force to support significant future investment in energy efficiency upgrades
  • improved workforce skills in delivering and operating energy transition projects.

Applicants must contribute at least 50% of the agreed eligible project costs.

Projects must be completed by 31 March 2027.

You must not commence your project until you execute a grant agreement with the Commonwealth.

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Key documents

Grant opportunity guidelines

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Sample application form

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Sample grant agreement

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Case study pro-forma

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Abatement calculator

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