Stakeholder and community support for the Enervest Battery Energy Storage System Portfolio
- Client Name
- Enervest
- Location
- Queensland & New South Wales, Australia
Challenge
Enervest, as part of a larger portfolio, is developing a pipeline of utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects across various states. The implementation of BESS technology is critical to achieving Australia's ambitious renewable energy targets. By building large-scale BESS facilities across the country, Enervest, with the assistance of SLR, is helping to ensure renewable energy can be seamlessly integrated into the grid, while also enhancing grid stability and reducing costs for consumers.
As a rapidly evolving sector, the energy storage landscape presents significant challenges in stakeholder engagement, necessitating effective communication of the projects’ benefits and impacts. There is also a requirement for community education regarding the shift to renewables and how this will take place.
Solution
Our Social Performance team are supporting Enervest in navigating complex stakeholder and community landscapes across their portfolio in Queensland and New South Wales.
Our approach involved working closely with Enervest project teams to develop comprehensive strategies focusing on transparency, education, and partnership to proactively address concerns, provide timely communications and garner stakeholder and community approval.
Impact
By leveraging our expertise in social performance, Enervest has been able to effectively plan for, listen to, and address concerns of stakeholders and local communities through many different approval pathways across the two States.
