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 demonstrate how the project will improve or increase community energy resilience.
Grant recipients announced
To read about our grant recipients, visit ERCF grant recipients. Here you will find some great examples of the types of organisations and projects we fund.
