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Guarantee of Origin scheme tracking First Nations ownership, consent, procurement and benefit-sharing in clean energy projects

November 25, 2025

Traditional Owners and First Nations groups have a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable.

Electricity prepayment customers should be at the centre of reform, not the fringes: Renew Economy

November 24, 2025

Calls for a “Consumer Duty” in Australia’s energy market are gaining momentum. Many see this as a way to ensure providers act in customers’ best interests as the system becomes more complex. But across this discussion, we risk overlooking the people whose experiences most...

How are the big wind, solar and battery projects that won CIS deals doing on First Nations benefit sharing?

November 14, 2025

Proponent’s commitments to benefit-sharing from big wind, solar and battery projects backed by government revealed in new resource.

Tracking First Nations participation in Capacity Investment Scheme projects

November 12, 2025

We're excited to share an important new resource detailing nearly 60 clean energy projects that have been successful in tenders awarded via the Capacity Investment Scheme, and its implications for First Nations people and communities.

Highlights of PowerMakers 2025 in new short film

November 12, 2025

A big thank you to everyone who attended PowerMakers 2025! We now have a 2 minute short film showing some of the highlights.

Traditional Owners must be able to exercise meaningful consent over outcomes on Country in Victoria

November 10, 2025

The clean energy transition must be a vehicle for First Nations justice, enduring cultural protection, and real economic participation — not a repeat of earlier patterns of dispossession.

Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities (SBS)

November 03, 2025

Today, a series of recommendations on reforming prepayment metering is being presented to government, based on findings from a report led by Original Power and the First Nations Clean Energy Network.

National investigation into prepayment power arrangements reveal First Nations communities among world’s most energy insecure

November 03, 2025

Sixty-five thousand First Nations’ households across Australia access electricity through prepayment supply arrangements that mean they can experience disconnection rates as high as an average of 59 disconnections per year, a landmark new report shows.

First Nations community expectations and electricity supply and resilience options for fringe of grid consumers in South Australia

October 31, 2025

A new Network project in South Australia aims to ensure clean energy solutions are designed with communities – strengthening local leadership, improving supply resilience, and supporting self-determination in the energy transition.

The Right to Power - Keeping prepayment communities connected

October 29, 2025

Join us for the online launch of a new report, The Right to Power - Keeping First Nations' Communities on Prepayment Connected on Monday 3 November 2025.