For Australian businesses running multiple sites, coordinating new meter installations for electricity and gas becomes a risk to new openings and making revenue. It’s a maze of distributor standards, retailer processes, metering provider schedules, and site-readiness prerequisites that vary by state and network. Chasing contractors, reconciling technical requirements, and rebooking windows after a minor paperwork error can stall energisation and push back openings. The cost isn’t just admin time; it’s delayed revenue and disrupted roll-out plans.

There’s a better way. A centralised, expert-led service with a dedicated account manager can take ownership of distributor engagement, align all moving parts, and compress the energisation timeline - while ensuring that, the moment power flows, your site is activated and moved to the best available rates on day one. That combination - distributor handling + faster time to energise + best-rate assurance - is what multisite operators actually need.

The Challenge of New Meter Installations for Multi-Site Businesses

When you’re opening or refurbishing multiple locations, you shouldn’t need to become an expert in DNSP standards or meter classes. Yet, that’s often where teams end up: reconciling distributor checklists, juggling retailer forms, and chasing metering providers for dates. Each new site introduces a slightly different stack- different distributor rules, switchboard constraints, CT/VT classing, meter position and clearance requirements, and access windows for field crews.

This fragmentation creates familiar pain points:

• Administrative overload: Application packs, attestations, wiring diagrams, compliance declarations, and repeated follow-ups across multiple parties.
• Costly delays: A missing NMI/MIRN reference, an incomplete site plan, or an unresolved defect notice can blow out lead times by weeks, pushing back commissioning and store openings.
• Limited oversight: Without a portfolio-wide view, timelines slip and newly connected sites drift onto default standing offers instead of negotiated plans - quietly inflating operating costs.

These issues drain resources and distract from your growth agenda. Worse, they multiply with scale.

Streamlining Meter Installations through Centralisation and Accountability

Modern energy operations demand a single point of accountability. With Termina, you submit one request per site and your dedicated account manager orchestrates the rest - handling distributor requirements end-to-end, coordinating the retailer and metering provider, and actively managing site readiness so installation proceeds on time.

Here’s how we convert a multi-party process into a predictable sequence:

1. Site readiness & scoping: We collect plans and switchboard details, confirm meter positions and clearance, validate CT/VT needs, and ensure prerequisites line up with the specific distributor’s standards.
2. Applications & approvals: We assemble complete packs and lodge them correctly with the retailer and relevant distributor, preventing rework and defects that cause avoidable slippage.
3. Scheduling & field coordination: We secure installation windows, coordinate contractors and access, and align any shutdown requirements with your fit-out programme.
4. On-the-day assurance & energisation: We monitor field progress, clear last-mile issues, and confirm energisation - reducing the risk of no-shows or failed inspections.
5. Immediate plan activation: On connection, we activate the site on the best available rates, avoiding default tariffs from day one.

The effect is straightforward: fewer errors, fewer deferrals, and a shorter path to energisation and more revenue. You keep a single line of contact - the account manager- while we manage the distributor complexity in the background.

Commission-Free Energy Brokerage & Month-to-Month Best-Rate Protection

The moment a meter is energised is exactly when many businesses lose money - because new services often default to standing offers. Termina avoids that trap with a commission-free model. We don’t accept retailer commissions, so our only incentive is to reduce your cost.

• Day-one best rate: As soon as the site connects, we place it on the most competitive plan for your profile.
• Ongoing optimisation: Our platform monitors market shifts and can roll sites to better-value plans as they arise - no waiting for contract anniversaries if a smarter product is available.
• Scale advantage: We leverage the pooled demand of thousands of sites to negotiate pricing that standalone businesses typically can’t access.

You start on the right tariff and stay there - without lifting a finger.

Unified Energy Management for Multiple Locations

Installation is the start, not the end. Once meters are live, Termina provides a single platform to control and optimise the portfolio.

• Centralised visibility: Track every site’s meter status, timelines, and contracts across ANZ from one dashboard.
• Usage & demand insights: Interval data, demand profiles, and anomaly alerts help you cut consumption and avoid penalties.
• Consolidated billing (optional): Roll multiple locations into one clean statement to simplify finance workflows and reduce AP effort.

The outcome is fewer spreadsheets, cleaner processes, and tighter control over energy cost per site and across the fleet.

Why Multisite Operators Choose Termina

• Dedicated account manager who owns outcomes - not just tickets.
• Distributor requirements handled correctly the first time, reducing defects and rework.
• Faster time to energise, so openings and refurb schedules stay on track.
• Best-rate assurance on connection and continuous optimisation thereafter.
• Commission-free alignment - we win when you save.
• One platform to see, verify, and improve everything post-install.

Open sites sooner. Spend less on energy. Eliminate the operational drag.

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Best of all there's no cost to use our meter installation service.

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