Victorian Energy Upgrades

Access discounted energy-saving products and services for households and businesses

Powerline replacement

Funding for residents in Victoria to have their private overhead powerlines replaced to reduce bushfire risk and increase community safety

Electricity distribution businesses

Electricity distribution businesses own and manage the power poles and wires which deliver power to homes and businesses across the state

Business ready fund

$1 million to assist businesses to transition to renewable hydrogen for business cases or feasibility studies

Victoria's Big Battery

Australia’s largest battery is being built right here in Victoria to modernise the state’s electricity grid, support new renewable energy capacity and improve the reliability of power supply in the face of increasingly hot summers.

Power outages

These can occur for multiple reasons, such as

  • planned maintenance works
  • lightning
  • floods
  • heatwaves
  • bushfires or high winds
  • trees contacting powerlines

What you can do at home to help prevent power outages

Your energy bill

Compare energy retailers and details about your bill

Business support

Energy support for Victorian businesses

Renewable Hydrogen

Industry development plan
Policy and strategy
Media Releases
Pipelines
Sep 21

Eastern Barred Bandicoots brough back from extinction

Biodiversity

For the first time ever in Australia a species classified as extinct in the wild h…
Sep 21

Science insights give seeds and seedlings a helping hand

Biodiversity

Efforts to reseed Victoria’s precious Ash forests are showing promising results.
Sep 21

Bumper flowering event sows hope for forests’ future seed crop

Biodiversity

You’ve heard of the weather and climate forecast, but between February and March t…
Sep 21

Unauthorised fires on public land putting community at risk

Safety

After an increase in unauthorised fires in Central Victoria, people are being remi…