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Discover what deidentified smart meter data can tell us about consumer patterns and understandings.

Using grant funding from ECA, the University of NSW investigated how public EV charging can be optimised to benefit all consumers.

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.

Virtual Energy Networks are a novel way to help people locked out of solar to access its benefits - learn more about this exciting research conducted by Deakin University through our Grants Program.

As Australia’s energy system is radically reconfigured, with close to 4 million households adopting rooftop solar, significant disparities in access, consumer protections and benefit distribution persist for First Nations’ energy customers. For many regional and remote First Nations’ communities where electricity prepayment supply arrangements are common, households must “top up” the meter or run the risk of sudden disconnection when the credit runs out. Facing regular disconnection - especially during periods of extreme heat - prepay households have long been underserved by solar power that would secure their own energy needs due to regulatory and financial barriers. While multiple studies have established links between energy insecurity and adverse health outcomes, and solar access to enhance energy security, the remedial potential of solar for prepayment-related energy insecurity in low-income First Nations’ communities has rarely been examined in Australia.