Join the next ‘Powering Up’ clean energy workshop being held in Rockhampton, Queensland on 14-15 May 2025.

We're currently in the upside down and mob must band together to protect Country and revive this land we're on.

Some 25 local First Nations leaders attended the first ever 'Powering Up Workshop’ designed to empower First Nations communities to engage, consent, negotiate and partner in new clean energy developments, held in Jambinu (Geraldton), Western Australia this week.

The Powering Up workshop is about First Nations leadership in the clean energy future - standing strong to protect Country while helping to shape renewable energy projects that deliver benefits for our people.

A new Capacity Investment Scheme tender invitation is out, with significant First Nations engagement and commitments required of clean energy proponents bidding for projects.

We can't simply swap one kind of energy for another without transforming the systems that go with them.

We need to bring a different mindset or we run the risk of repeating the mistakes of the past.

This new guide puts into operation the First Nations Clean Energy Network’s Best Practice Principles, setting expectations for the clean energy industry on exercising meaningful engagement, consent, participation and benefit-sharing with First Nations people on renewable energy projects.

Co-authored by the Clean Energy Council and KPMG, the guide focuses on how to exercise meaningful engagement, consent, participation and benefit-sharing with First Nations people on renewable energy projects.

It sets expectations for the clean energy industry and details key considerations for engagement at each stage of a project’s lifecycle.

Download the Guide

Australia’s climate ambition relies on the rapid growth of large scale clean energy projects.

With First Nations’ rights and interests now legally recognised over more than half the Australian continent, it’s critical that First Nations consent, interests, aspirations and rights are front and centre of the clean energy transition.

A new guidebook launched today to assist the clean energy industry meaningfully engage and partner with First Nations is based on all ten of the First Nations Clean Energy Network’s Best Practice Principles for Clean Energy Projects.

Several Australian organisations including the First Nations Clean Energy Network have bandied together to lobby the Federal Government to commit to $100 billion investment in clean energy.