What do we do?

Infrastructure Delivery

Enabling industry to deliver sustainable generational infrastructure through projects, programs, precincts, and regions that have lasting benefit for Indigenous communities.

We work with infrastructure developers, owners, and managers to map and understand community dynamics, establish relationships, identify community priorities, and agree on joint outcomes.

IEA act as an expert facilitator and advisor, not just pushing a project through and wrangling community, but understanding community outcomes, and the pathways through which a project can enable these outcomes.

Organisational Transformation

Transforming organisational ability to deliver win-win outcomes for Indigenous communities through cultural capability uplift, knowledge transfer, and practical change planning. Indigenous Energy Australia firmly believe that there is a fundamental mindset shift required across infrastructure.

IEA act as an objective partner to help establish relationships between industry and community, centred around community aspirations and cultural capability. We then work with both sides, to agree on fair objectives, and to build capacity to maintain relationships independently of IEA.

The internal portion of this work centres around transformational reconciliation. IEA use a ‘change management approach’, making changes within an organisation that will drive the external outcomes being achieved with community.

Community Empowerment

Enabling Indigenous peoples to determine and realise their energy future through co-design, literacy, and meaningful relationships and engagement.

Indigenous Energy Australia are a trusted community advisor with connections across the country. IEA sit side by side with community to provide the people and the knowledge, to improve communities’ ability to seize the opportunities offered by generational infrastructure and the energy transition.

We offer objective advice centred around what is best for community with an emphasis on building capacity and capability in a self-determined manner.

Knowledge Weaving

Weaving Indigenous knowledge and ways of being into industry culture through data intelligence, research, learning programs, and advocacy.

IEA is committed to delivering innovation and a culture shift across Australia’s energy industry that incorporates both ancient and modern Indigenous knowledge.

Why work with us?

Since 2016, IEA has been working with community, industry, and government to deliver transformational impact through energy. Our work spans tactical energy project delivery and technical advisory through to strategic planning and capability development.

• Unmatched experience | delivering outcomes for community in the Indigenous energy space for more than 8 years
• Unwavering integrity and commitment | once we work with a community we are committed to delivering impactful outcomes and maintaining a long-term relationship with them
• Integrated end-to-end services | we work across the infrastructure asset lifecycle and all classes of infrastructure, across strategic and operational domains
• Our people | we have a dynamic mix of community and renewable energy experts empowering us to engage well
• Multidisciplinary approach | we integrate the technical, environmental, and social aspects of energy development and strategic planning for a just energy system transition
• Innovation | we’re leading researchers and pioneering real-world cross-cutting socio-technical solutions