Success Stories

Find out about projects we've awarded grant funding, their outputs and impact, in this series of case studies from our Grants Program.
Showing 1 - 11 of 38 results
Woman looking at phone
Grants
29 July 2026
2 min read
A powerful new database to inform consumer advocacy and test the effect of market interventions
Discover what deidentified smart meter data can tell us about consumer patterns and understandings.
Blonde woman speaking into microphone
Grants
01 September 2020
2 min read
ACOSS Equitable, Affordable, Inclusive Energy Transition Project
This project is focused around the ACOSS people-centered vision for the Australian energy system, supporting national reform to address housing energy performance.
Gas pipes
Grants
09 June 2026
2 min read
Balancing act: weighing up local gas decommissioning
Energy Consumers Australia provided a grant to the Brotherhood of St Laurence to research how to make the transition away from gas cheaper and fairer for households facing disadvantage.
Thermometer in home
Grants
02 July 2022
2 min read
Better Renting: Renter Researchers Project
Learn how an Energy Consumers Australia grant enabled citizen science to push for better renting standards.
A doctor sits next to a patient and holds their hand.
Grants
22 October 2025
4 min read
Breaking the link between poor health and energy hardship
Energy Consumers Australia provided funding to the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) to address the connection between energy hardship and poor health.
Welcome to Hawker sign
Grants
30 May 2025
3 min read
Building energy resilience in the Flinders Ranges region
Learn how an ECA grant to the First Nations Clean Energy Network helped lay the foundations to build energy resilience in the Flinders Ranges.
Golden Gate Bridge
Grants
08 October 2025
2 min read
Comparing California's energy transition with Australia
The 2025 Gill Owen scholar, Dr Glen Currie, travelled to California to research the complex transition from gas to electricity, to see what lessons Australia can benefit from.
Students sitting in a university lecture hall
Grants
04 December 2024
2 min read
Consumer advocacy for a least-cost energy transition
Through an ECA grant, University of Melbourne designed and delivered an interactive training course, The foundations of the energy system: a consumer advocacy toolkit to develop new and diverse consumer voices
Young woman cutting cake in shop
Grants
30 September 2024
2 min read
COSBOA: Small Steps. Bright Future
Discover how a grant from Energy Consumers Australia uncovered which types of business will be most in need of support in the energy transition.

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