Overview
As climate change brings increasingly severe, frequent and unpredictable weather events, the risk of prolonged power outages also increases. The Energy Resilience Community Fund (ERCF) provides grants to community and not-for-profit organisations, local councils and small businesses to help build and strengthen community energy resilience. This means communities will be less impacted by and recover faster from extreme weather events and other electricity reliability challenges.
Building community energy resilience plays an important role in a community’s overall resilience.
The ERCF was developed using a community-informed approach, through conversations and collaboration with councils, local members, community organisations, peak bodies and community members.
Funded projects must be located within our electricity distribution area, and clearly improve or increase community energy resilience for their communities.