1. Complete the form below to register your interest (select Certificate Creation as an Installation Company).
2. An Account Manager will be in touch to help onboard your company and installers via our easy onboarding system.
3. We will set your profile up in our system.
4. For any installations occurring now, collect evidence in line with the proposed requirements. Consider delaying commissioning until after the evidence requirements have been released.
5. Subscribe below for updates. We will be in touch frequently over the coming weeks to keep you updated on the next steps.

The installation company is responsible for customer satisfaction, which means that if a customer isn’t happy then certificates either can’t be claimed or must be forfeited.

All complaints must be rectified within a reasonable time period. 

Yes, you must have completed training with your Accredited Provider before the first system is completed. 

Yes, currently SPV is a requirement but is not recognised by the VEU like it is with the CER, meaning that the turnaround time for VEU approval is likely to take between 10-30+ days.

SPV requirements may be changed with the final evidence requirements. 

The VEU program is very customer-focused. The customer may be contacted by Ecovantage, and/or the VEU after the installation to confirm the validity of the provided information. The VEU may perform phone and site audits directly with the customer. 

The VEEC market is one of the more volatile certificate markets in Australia, largely due to the volume of speculative trading present in the market. The below graph demonstrates the market movement over the past 4 years. It is worth noting that the VEEC market has been at an all-time high in recent periods due to low VEEC creation. The market is largely supply and demand driven, and therefore with increased demand from new activities (such as C&I Deemed Solar VEECs), the price is likely to soften. 

In our system you will submit a single claim for STCs and VEECs, but the job will be separated into two. This allows the STC portion to be submitted quickly while the additional evidence requirements of the VEU are assessed.

While STCs may be approved in 24 hours by the CER, the VEU routinely takes between 10-30+ days to approve a job. Due to this, payment structures are divided into a single set timeframe for payment or payment post-VEU acceptance. 

While there are no firm requirements, installs occurring now have no guarantee to be eligible. The safest option is to collect the below evidence in line with what the VEU has outlined to date: 

• Evidence per STC claims with mandatory SPV
• Metering portal that the end user can login to (an exported report showing the site address to evidence this) 
• Single Line Diagram (SLD) 
• Itemised invoice that breaks down brand/model of components and a discount amount for each certificate type (STCs, LGCs, VEECs) 
• Photo ID to be included in installer selfies 
• Aerial or elevated photo showing full array fully installed (drone shots proposed to be acceptable)
• Lead generation evidence 
• Customer signature once forms are released

• 0-99.9kW STCs + VEECs 
• 100-200kW LGCs + VEECs 
• 200kW+ Use an M&V approach for VEECs only. No dual certificate claims are permitted with M&V.

The following key dates must be met: 

1. Job started after 29 September (evidenced by SWMS, site sign-in records, geotagged pre-photos).
2. Job completed post AP accreditation.

If a job was started after 29 September, completed after your AP’s accreditation date, and meets all evidence requirements, then it may be able to be backdated.

There is a level of uncertainty here given that no final evidence requirements will be released until 31 October. 

Any sites listed on the VEU’s SAP register are not eligible for VEEC creation unless they have chosen to Opt-In to the program.

You can check the SAP register here > 

Solar under the VEU has three available options – one deemed, two measured. Below is a summary of when to use each method and how to claim. 

• 30-200kW Small Sites: Deemed C&I Solar VEEC Method 
• 200-400kW Medium Sites: PBA M&V Specified Measurement Method (SMM)
• 300+kW Large Sites: PBA Standard M&V

Victorian Site Claims

Scenario: Where there is an existing PV system on an NMI, and an additional capacity is being installed.

Example: Existing 100kW system on a NMI, and 200kW expansion is planned

Question: Would this scenario be eligible with certain limitations? Such as the total capacity on a NMI must not exceed 200kW, or only the total capacity of the ‘new’ system must not exceed 200kW?

Answer: The activity would be eligible provided the ‘additional’ rated capacity (kW) does not exceed 200kW as specified in the DNSP negotiated connection contract. We may request evidence (DNSP negotiated connection contract, single-line diagrams) to verify the details of the legacy and new/replacement/extension solar system claimed.

The M&V method under the PBA stream is an available option to claim VEECs for installation of solar PV systems above 200 kW.

Scenario: Where an installation is split in two stages. Stage 1 is 99.9kW to claim STCs. Once approved the second stage of 100kW is installed.

Example: 01 January 99.9kW installed and claims STCs. An additional 100kW is installed using separate components (inverters, panels) on 01 March and claims LGCs.

Question: In this circumstance, would the whole 200kW be eligible to claim VEECs if the installer makes a claim after both stages of the system are installed?

Answer: Yes, the activity is eligible provided:

• The rated capacity (kW) of the system being claimed does not exceed 200kW
• A maximum of one solar PV system is installed per National Metering Identifier (NMI) at the site.
• VEECs are claimed after both 99.9kW and 100kW kW systems have been energised and the DNSP negotiated connection contract evidences energisation of a 199.9kW system. The records collected evidencing the installation of the system (e.g. single line diagram) must also show installation of a 199.9kW system.

Scenario: A 200kW system is installed and claims VEECs. A time later, the system owner wants to expand the system and install more solar.

Example: 200kW installed 01 Jan. 01 Dec of the same year the client asks to install another 200kW because they have the roof space available and have the capital to do so.

Question: Does this impact the eligibility of the first 200kW system that claimed VEECs earlier in the year?

Answer: The first stage installation is eligible to claim VEECs under the C&I solar activity provided the system is installed and energised. We may request copy of DNSP negotiated connection contract evidencing energisation of the 200kW system.

The second stage installation does not impact on eligibility of first stage installation to claim VEECs.

Under the C&I solar activity, the installation of solar PV system in an apartment building is ineligible to create VEECs.

To be eligible, the activity must:

• be undertaken at a non-residential premises or site that is grid-connected.
• not be undertaken at:
  • a building that is classified as a Class 2 building (i.e. multi-unit residential buildings, e.g. apartment building).
  • at a ‘scheduled activity premises’ as defined in Regulation 4 of the VEET Regulations, unless it has been ‘opted in’ to the program as described in Regulation 28.

You may consider the measurement and verification method for project-based activities as an available option for upgrades that are not eligible under the deemed C&I solar activity.

The activity would be ineligible to create VEECs given the prescribed activity was completed before receiving accreditation to undertake C&I solar activities.

For C&I solar activities to be eligible under the VEU program, the activity must be undertaken from the date the relevant accredited person (AP) was approved to undertake C&I solar activities.

VEU Activity 47A
A solar photovoltaic system that has a solar photovoltaic module capacity of more than or equal to 30 kW and less than or equal to 100 kW that:

1. 1. is installed in compliance with the relevant Distribution Network Service
      Provider’s negotiated connection contract; and
   2. can be either a new connection or a connection alteration; and
   3. uses solar photovoltaic modules (solar panels) listed on the Clean Energy
      Council approved modules list; and
   4. uses inverters listed on the Clean Energy Council approved inverters list.

VEU Activity 47B
A solar photovoltaic system that has a solar photovoltaic module capacity of more
than 100 kW and less than or equal to 200 kW that:

1. 1. is installed in compliance with the relevant Distribution Network Service
      Provider’s negotiated connection contract; and
   2. can be either a new connection or a connection alteration; and
   3. uses solar photovoltaic modules (solar panels) listed on the Clean Energy
      Council approved modules list; and
   4. uses inverters listed on the Clean Energy Council approved inverters list.

Release of legislative amendments introducing a new commercial and industrial solar photovoltaic (PV) system activity, revision to high efficiency motors activity and other amendments [Released 2 October 2025]

Victorian Energy Upgrades Specifications 2018 – Version 21.0 [PDF 2.3MB)

Victorian Energy Upgrades – Commercial and Industrial Solar FAQs

• Grid Connected w/out Battery Inverter information added to STCs, LGCs & VEECs table.
• STC PV range updated from 0-99.9kW to 0-100kW.
• Key Date for installation updated as per VEU announcement.
• Third scenario added to Dual Certificate Claims.
• Evidence Requirements added.
• Five FAQs added.
• VEU FAQs added to Resources. 

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