Our launch partners include the National Native Title Council, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation, ACTU, ETU and MUA, Smart Energy Council, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at ANU, Clean Energy Council, Renewable Energy Alliance, Impact Investment Partners, Community Power Agency, Lowitja Institute, Climate Council, and many others.
We would like to thank these, and our many other supporters, for endorsing our work and backing the power that comes when communities, industry and experts act together to realise the benefits of clean energy. If your organisation would like to show your support for the Network, please get in touch.
The Network will ensure First Nations people are key players in Australia’s clean energy revolution. We will make sure clean energy is done the right way, driven by our communities and developed so it sustains country for generations to come.
Original Power
The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation supports the empowerment of Indigenous communities to lead the development of clean energy initiatives on Indigenous country and increase Indigenous Australians' participation in the renewable energy sector.
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
First Nations workers will be better skilled, trained and enjoy more opportunities with the backing of this powerful and important Network.
ACTU
The clean energy industry wants to put its best foot forward through genuine collaboration with First Nations communities, respecting the Indigenous Estate, sharing the benefits of clean energy through sustainable and equitable practice and protecting an ancient culture. This Network will be invaluable in achieving this mission.
Clean Energy Council
Impact Investment Partners gladly supports the Network's vision. In our experience, there is limited knowledge across Australia about the role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can play in meeting Australia’s future energy needs. The network will assist communities struggling with unreliable and expensive power and help groups to participate as equals, in the larger scale renewable energy transformation.
Impact Investment Partners
Capacity - organisational, financial, informational and political - is key to benefit in the energy transition. Bringing together this Network is a vital step toward putting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership and participation at the heart of Australia’s clean energy future.
CAEPR, Australian National University
The ETU welcomes this initiative and the invitation to share our Unions’ 100+years of experience in the energy industry to help create genuine opportunities for First Nations Peoples to harness the secure jobs, skills and broad economic benefits that renewable energy projects must deliver in the energy transition.
Electrical Trades Union
First Nations workers will reap the benefits of this Network, providing them training, skills, job opportunities and a strong future.
First Nations Workers Alliance
Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the Network and its aim to redefine the current approach and regulatory framework governing renewable energy development. As the pace and scale of Australia's renewable energy rollout grows, so too should engagement with First Nations Peoples on whose lands these projects will be based. This shift is an opportunity to ensure First Nations Peoples benefit from these commercial opportunities and have access to secure, low-cost, clean energy. We look forward to working with the Network to make sure that these opportunities are realised.
Beyond Zero Emissions
This initiative presents abundant opportunities for First Nations communities, industry and investors to collaborate in our accelerating energy transition. Centring First Nations leadership in stewarding strategic decarbonisation projects is a powerful way of ensuring equity for generations to come, and helping companies to manage risk.
Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility
The Smart Energy Council is pleased to support the work of the First Nations Clean Energy Network.
Smart Energy Council
The First Nations Community Energy Network is an important and timely contribution to the energy transition, supporting Indigenous peoples to take up the opportunities of renewable energy.
Community Power Agency
RE-Alliance is delighted to see the establishment of the Network, which has been sorely needed. We're very much looking forward to the Network bringing structured and effective indigenous leadership to the clean energy space to ensure that advancement of indigenous Australia goes hand in hand with the energy transformation.
RE-Alliance
The Network is such an important and timely project because it addresses two of Australia’s biggest challenges: climate change impacts and strengthening the economic sovereignty of Australia’s First Peoples.
The Next Economy
The Coalition for Community Energy recognises the important role of this Network in supporting First Nations communities to play a central role in the future of our transition.
Coalition for Community Energy
First Nations communities will otherwise be ignored if we don’t get organised. This Network will be crucial to our people being heard about employment, training and participation in the Clean Energy industry.
Maritime Union of Australia
The Network is a vital new initiative to build the capacity of First Nations communities and businesses to lead clean energy projects and benefit from the results.
The Climate Council
Climate change has massive implications for First Nations people's health and never has this network been more needed than now.
The Climate and Health Alliance
Equality of access to energy is as fundamental as any other human right in Australia. The Network is vital in ensuring First Nations Communities are deeply involved in our country’s renewable energy transition, both in terms of generation and utilisation.
The Australia Institute
Renewable energy is essential to tackling climate change and we acknowledge that the energy transformation will all occur on Indigenous land. WWF-Australia welcomes the First Nations Clean Energy Network and the essential role it will play in ensuring Indigenous People are at the center of the transition to renewable energy.