Activities

If you’re thinking about the next steps to take on your energy journey, our decision support tool can help you to decide where best to focus your efforts.

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Assess your project ambition

Understand your project ambition and preferences for project scale and maturity.

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Assess your renewable resources

Guidance on quantifying your renewable resource and comparing them to your community energy needs.

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Build your team

Explore how to build a team with the right mix of skills to develop your project.

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Calculate your Community Statistics INCOMPLETE

Deepen your understanding of energy use in your community and the types of households and businesses you have included within your community boundary.

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Define your community

Deepen your understanding of who is included in your community definition and what they want.

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Develop your governance and partnerships INCOMPLETE

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Explore partnering options

Outlines the types of organisations you may want to partner with

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Get to know your communities priorities

Identify the motivations for your community to get involved and identify the most important reasons for developing community energy projects.

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Identify the type of projects you want to work on

Guides you through activities to choose the most suitable projects.

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Identify your electricity network provider

This activity will help you find out who owns and operates your local electricity network (ie poles, wires and transformers).

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Identify your electricity system

Further help to identify your electricity system and links to the rule makers in each system.

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Investigate network performance in your area

This activity helps you explore network performance, planned investments, and reliability statistics of your local electricity network.

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Obtain energy use data for a few sites

This activity enables the collection of energy use data and load profiles for selected sites.

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Obtain energy use data for your community

This activity enables the collection of energy use data and load profiles for your community.

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Understand your local electricity network

This activity helps you understand how electricity is delivered in your community and identify likely bottlenecks for electricity coming in or going out of your community.

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