Your meter and your billVerified 6 November 20264 min read

Getting your meter data from Momentum Energy

The PDF request form: the box to tick, and where to email it.

How your file gets from Momentum to your report

You. Have these ready. A recent bill, for your account number and meter number (NMI). Your date of birth. A way to sign and email a PDF.

The way Momentum works, from our guide below. Tap a stop to hold it.

What this means for you

The file is your data, and Momentum has to give it to you if you ask. You don't have to say why.

In short

You ask Momentum for your meter data file (NEM12) with a form. Choose detailed metering data via email (in .csv format) when it asks what you want. When the file comes, you add it to your report.

Momentum Energy is a retailer, the company that bills you. You ask for your meter data file (NEM12) with a PDF form that you fill in, sign and email back.

In Victoria and South Australia your network, the company that owns the poles and wires, is usually quicker.Find your network.

A folded bill face down on a verandah table, with reading glasses and a pencil

Keep in mind

Where you live changes the quickest way. In Victoria and South Australia your network, the company that owns the poles and wires, has a download portal and is usually quicker than a retailer.

Fill in a formUp to 10 business days

Have these ready

  • A recent bill, for your account number and meter number (NMI)
  • Your date of birth
  • A way to sign and email a PDF

The steps

  1. Download Momentum's Request for metering data form (a PDF).

    On screen Request for metering data form

    Open www.momentumenergy.com.au (opens in a new tab)

  2. Tick detailed metering data via email (in .csv format).

    On screen detailed metering data via email (in .csv format)

    Not summary metering data via post.

  3. Fill in your account number, meter number (NMI) and date of birth, sign it, and email it to info@momentum.com.au.

  4. Wait for the email. Momentum says 10 business days.

Pick this, not these

Choose detailed metering data via email (in .csv format)

  • summary metering data via post

Only the detailed file has the half-hourly readings.

What you get. A .csv file by email

What to watch for

  • The form is a PDF you print or fill, sign and email.

When the file arrives

  1. Step 1

    Upload your bill

    We read what you pay now, exactly, from your own bill.

  2. Step 2

    We price every plan in your area

    Every plan in the government's open plan data, priced on your use.

  3. Step 3

    Stay or Switch

    If staying put is the better plan, that is what the report says.

Open your PowerLens report and choose Add meter data, free. Upload the file as it arrived, without opening and saving it in Excel first. No report yet? Start with your bill.

If our upload can't read the file, it will say so. What a good file looks like.

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Upload your bill and we price every plan in your area against it.

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  • The check is free. You only pay if we find you a better plan.
  • Retailers never pay us.
  • Your bill file is deleted once we've read it.