What Is Energy Together?
Energy Together is the peak body of the growing community energy sector in Australia
What Is Energy Together?
Energy Together is an Australian network of
- community energy groups,
- partners who also make up the community energy sector, and
- supporters from across the energy sector, community groups, governments and other commercial contributors.
Established in 2014 as the Coalition for Community Energy (C4CE) we rebranded in 2026. There are more than 105 member groups across Australia who are keen to transform their communities to zero-net emissions and we are re-connecting the network to form Energy Together.
Read more about Our History here.
Our MIssion and Vision
Energy Together is the collective voice for community energy groups and supporters across Australia. Our vision is a future where every community benefits directly from — and holds a meaningful stake in — the shift to clean energy.
NETWORK — Connecting people, communities, businesses and changemakers to build strong, collaborative relationships.Â
LEARN — Sharing knowledge, tools and skills that help community energy projects succeed.Â
ADVOCATE — Championing policies and reforms that enable a thriving, community‑led energy sector.
We do this on behalf of the many community energy groups and supporters working to create local, fair and resilient energy solutions.
We believe that empowering communities leads to a faster and fairer transition to clean energy — one that builds trust, strengthens social licence and ensures the benefits of the energy transition are shared.
We know we have succeeded when community energy is recognised as an essential part of Australia’s energy system, and when communities across the country directly experience the economic, social and environmental benefits of the transition at the local level.
You can read our plan on a page for 2026 here.
What we Do
Energy Together’s major strategic initiatives include:
- LEARNING: supporting knowledge sharing within the community energy sector
- ADVOCACY: Advocacy and lobbying at all levels of government
- EVENTSÂ and NETWORKING: hosting and promoting online webinars, in-person events and the Community Energy Congress
How we work
There are many players in the climate and energy transition space. We work alongside many of these fantastic organisations advocating for the policies, programs and investments that will urgently deliver a fairer, cleaner energy future.
Our unique niche is to advocate for the community scale. The energy transition is not simply a switch to new technologies. It will transform our society as we learn, change our patterns and engage in the local decision making about priorities and control. It is not simply an economic transfer from fossil fuel companies to renewable energy companies. It is demanding significant investment at the local level, in homes and businesses, and creating many new opportunities for local collective investments.
We see Energy Together’s role as putting community at the heart of the energy transition. We celebrate the achievements of the community energy sector precisely because these are initiatives clearly greater than the sum of their individual parts, initiatives which benefit members and the wider community.
Every day, Energy Together sees community energy contributing to a bigger picture of action on climate change, sustainability, social equity, community resilience and self-agency.
