There is an important dimension largely absent from NSW's current proposals for data centre electricity connection and cost recovery, being the rights, interests, cultural and Country responsibilities, and economic opportunities of First Nations people. 

The First Nations Clean Energy Network supports reform that can deliver a more planned, reliable, transparent and efficient Northern Territory electricity system.

But the architecture will not be fit for the Territory unless it is designed around the people and communities it serves, including First Nations communities, and around the technologies that will define the future system. 

Keeping First Nations communities on electricity prepayment arrangements connected to power is being discussed at an implementation workshop being in Unley, South Australia today.

ElectraNet, SA Power Networks and Telstra have shared a range of commitments they will undertake to address significant power unreliability and storm damage in the Flinders Ranges region in South Australia.