The Australian Government welcomes the release of the Community Engagement Review and accepts in principle all recommendations.
Read the Australian Government’s response to the review.
Andrew Dyer, the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner, led the independent Community Engagement Review.
The Review considered community attitudes to provide advice on the best way to maximise community engagement to plan, develop and operate renewable energy infrastructure.
The Commissioner also considered impacts on First Nations peoples, the environment, agricultural land, emergency management, social, cultural, community, tourism, business and local industry.
In December 2023, the Commissioner provided a report to the Australian Government’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy. The report included 9 recommendations to address community needs.
You can read the Community Engagement Review report and Australian Government’s response.
Consultation activities
The review held over 75 meetings with representative stakeholders, landholders and community groups.
The review also invited organisations and community members to have their say or to make a written submission.
The review received:
over 250 online survey responses
over 500 written submissions.
The review has publicly released the submission responses from organisations and community members who provided consent. Some community members wished for their response to be released anonymously.
Consultation Documents
Read more
Improving community engagement and support for energy infrastructure
Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner’s Annual Report 2022
Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner’s opening statement to Senate Estimates, 23 May 2023
Considerations for landholders before entering into commercial agreements
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