Your Fractional Energy Cost Manager

Usually because of the charges around your usage, not the usage itself. Your energy contract usually covers only around half of a large business energy bill. The rest is mostly network charges, plus metering and environmental charges, and most businesses never question them. These charges can be wrong, out of date or poorly matched to how your site runs, and they're often where WiseUp Energy Solutions finds savings.

Your bill can also rise when your usage doesn't, because network tariffs, metering charges and retail rates change every year. The only way to know what's driving your cost is to go through the bill line by line. Most businesses have never had that done, so overcharges and mismatched tariffs can go unnoticed for years.

WiseUp Energy Solutions works with businesses across Australia and reads your energy bill the way your energy retailer never will: on your side, and paid by you alone. Talk to us and we'll explain what to look for.

WiseUp Energy Solutions charges a fee paid by you alone. It's quoted upfront and fixed before we start. No energy retailer, metering provider or solar supplier pays WiseUp, and there is no commission in your rates, ever, so you can see exactly what you pay us and what you pay your energy retailer.

Many businesses engage WiseUp for a single project, such as a tender, a network tariff review or a bill audit, quoted as a fixed fee. For some businesses we work with, ongoing support through 365 Energy Cost Management, such as our CORE plan, is a better fit: an affordable monthly fee per site that includes your own login to your meter data and bill data, every energy bill checked, and a discount on projects. It's an option, never a requirement. The first conversation is free, and you'll have your price in writing before any work starts. Talk to us.

A Value Added Service (VAS) charge is a fee on your energy bill, usually linked to metering, that can include a payment passed on to a third party. Despite the name, it may add no value for your business, and many businesses don't know it's there or who it pays.

Here's how it can work: the charge is collected through your bill, passed from your energy retailer to the metering provider, and part of it is then paid on to a third party, such as whoever arranged your contract. So a cost that looks like a standard metering fee can be partly funding someone else.

WiseUp Energy Solutions receives no VAS or metering payments of any kind. When we review your energy bill, we show you what each charge is for, including any that are paying someone else.

Using less energy is only one lever, and often not the biggest. Many businesses save more by moving to the right network tariff, reducing demand charges, correcting billing errors and buying their next energy contract at the right time in the market, all without changing how they operate.

WiseUp Energy Solutions analyses your meter data and bill data, contracts and tariffs to find these opportunities, then manages the changes with your energy retailer and network for you. Every recommendation is backed by evidence and made in your interest, because WiseUp is paid by you alone, with no commission in your rates, ever.

Ask how they are paid, and by whom. Some advisers are paid a fee by you. Others receive a commission from the energy retailer, which is usually built into the rates you pay. Both can be legitimate, but you should know which applies, and how much it is, before you sign.

Other questions worth asking: Which energy retailers will you approach? Who can access my meter data and bill data? What happens after the contract is signed? Do you follow the National Customer Code for Energy Brokers, Consultants and Retailers?

WiseUp Energy Solutions charges one fee, quoted upfront and fixed before we start. Since we started in 2016, no energy retailer, metering provider or solar supplier has ever paid us.

Yes. WiseUp Energy Solutions founder Sharon Musker helped build the National Customer Code for Energy Brokers, Consultants and Retailers, is a founding member of the Customer Code Council and, as at October 2026, is its co-chair. The Code sets standards for how energy advisers deal with business customers, including being clear about how they are paid.