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.

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. 

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.

A new First Nations-led research project has launched to improve energy security and consumer protections for customers accessing electricity services through pre-payment arrangements.

The Energy Ready Guidebook helps guide communities through the process of planning for, coping with and bouncing back from climate-related weather events like extreme heat and fires, floods and storms that disrupt energy supply.

The Guidebook explains what energy resilience means for communities and includes advice from communities that have experienced, or are at high risk of experiencing, climate-related disasters, and includes step-by-step instructions for seven simple activities community groups can do. 

This information was collected at a series of workshops in Mullumbimby and Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Gympie and Magnetic Island in Queensland, and Bonang and Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Vital guidance and information on resilience was also provided by the project’s Steering Reference Group.

The Guidebook was funded by Energy Consumers Australia and delivered in partnership with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), Community Power Agency and Parallel Lines.

Read the Guidebook here