What's new
Updates and improvements to GridCheck.
16 July 2026
Emissions — see your household carbon footprint 🌏
There's a new CO₂ page in the menu. It turns the energy data GridCheck already has into your household greenhouse footprint: • Every kWh you buy from the grid becomes CO₂-e using your state's official emission factor, picked automatically from your postcode. • Your solar generation is shown as grid emissions you avoided. • Future Petrol fill-ups from the EV tracker count as direct (Scope 1) emissions at 2.31 kg CO₂-e per litre. All factors come from the Australian Government's National Greenhouse Accounts Factors 2025. You can see the full factor table, and the exact formulas we apply, at the bottom of Settings. Months with live logger data use your measured figures; other months fill in from your bills.
12 July 2026
Better bill reading with a power company selector
Uploading your bill just got more reliable. When you upload a PDF bill on the Invoices page, you can now pick your power company from a dropdown first: Amber, GloBird, Origin, AGL, Red Energy and more. This helps GridCheck read your bill's layout correctly, since every retailer formats their bills differently. Leave it on auto-detect if you're not sure, that works too. We've also fixed bill reading for Amber customers. Amber's PDFs are formatted differently to most retailers and weren't reading properly. That's now sorted, and everything on the bill comes through: usage, costs, billing period, daily supply charge, solar exports and credits, and your meter number for property matching. Bill reading is free and doesn't use AI. Your bill is read on our servers, stored encrypted, and only ever visible to you. If your bill doesn't read correctly, hit the Feedback button and attach the bill. That's exactly how this Amber fix happened, thanks to one of you.
10 July 2026
Can't find your plan?
Add it yourself. Enter your retailer, the daily supply charge, your usage rate (or peak/off-peak/free windows), and your feed-in rate. It'll show up in your plan search and the payback finder alongside the others. Only you can see it.
10 July 2026
Upload your energy data — bills, battery logger files and more
You can now get your real energy data into GridCheck three ways: Bills : upload your PDF bill on the Invoices page and the numbers are read automatically, free. Usage, costs, rates, feed-in and your meter number are picked up and matched to your property. No bill handy? Type the figures in manually. Battery / inverter data : on the Data page, import the export file from your logger portal (.csv or .xlsx). Daily reports and 5-minute interval files both work. Pick your brand from the dropdown menu FoxESS, Sigenergy, Sungrow, GoodWe, Growatt, AlphaESS and more. The columns should now map correctly, or leave it on auto detect. Interval files also build your hour-by-hour usage picture. Manual entry : add single days by hand on the Data page if you just want to log a few. The more real data you add, the sharper your payback figures and plan comparisons become. The fastest payback option uses your actual usage, not averages. Your files are encrypted, private to your account, and deletable any time.