Project Impact Framework

Energy Estate’s Project Impact Framework has been created based upon our teams deep experience of benefit sharing frameworks for clean energy development.

Our team understands how to realise impact from decades of experience leading Australia’s first subnational government renewable energy auctions with benefit sharing and economic development objectives. With award winning utility scale solar projects delivering benefits for local communities and contracted to one of the nation's largest financial institutions, we deliver with a clear focus on enabling community equity.    

Our framework has a comprehensive approach to achieving impact which is aligned with national and global sustainability frameworks, including the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia Framework, UN Sustainable Development Goals and Equator Principles.

Our framework focuses on 12 key objectives:

• First Nations Peoples First

• Community Centred Outcomes

• Biodiversity and Vegetation Regeneration

• Skills Training and Education

• Local Employment

• Local Procurement

• Legacy of Projects

• Diverse Representation

• Partnerships

• Stewardship and Leadership

• Driving circular economy outcomes

• Net Zero by 2050

Each objective is about acknowledging the responsibility we have as stewards of the energy transition, enabling just and enduring outcomes for citizens, communities and investors which help accelerate the decarbonisation of the global economy, respond to climate change and realise broader social justice and economic development outcomes.

Our framework guides our approach in developing projects, advising on strategy, policies and investment opportunities. It is central to how we help realise value for our clients and partners across clean energy and circular economy.

Further to this, Energy Estate is a signatory to the Clean Energy Council’s (CEC) Best Practice Charter and this commitment reflects our dedication to upholding the highest standards of sustainability, ethics, and stakeholder engagement in its pursuit of a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

Sharing The Benefit

By putting social licence, community and economic development opportunities at the heart of renewable energy project development the Energy Estate team has directly influenced the development of proactive government and corporate clean energy procurement policies which deliver these outcomes.

Leveraging the purchasing power of governments and corporations is critical to delivering broader benefits, it can be the difference between enduring jobs, a more highly skilled workforce, improved biodiversity outcomes, economic empowerment for first nations peoples, or communities that are left behind.

To achieve our Project Impact Framework objectives, we work from ground up, aligning each project with the aspirations and expectations of host communities, landowners and civil society. Alignment with the global frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Equator Principles allows our framework to be utilised by investors and development partners to realise their own ESG objectives.  

Clean energy projects are central to our shared global challenge of escalating climate impacts, but without a broader focus on a just transition, benefit sharing and inclusion we are only realising part of its full potential. Energy Estate’s Project Impact Framework is our response to this challenge.