Case studies

2025

2025 STEM Partnerships: ATSE, DeadlyScience, Mt Piper BESS

As young people in our local schools think about their careers, we want them to see a place for themselves in Australia’s clean energy future. To ensure this future is fair and inclusive, we need more women, First Nations peoples, and young Australians from all backgrounds. To support this future, we are investing in programmes that bring STEM education, and energy education, to life.

Through our Mount Piper Battery Energy Storage System Schools Programme in Lithgow, we helped over 1,000 students from nine local schools turn potatoes into batteries and play energy relay games, gaining a better understanding of how energy is made, stored and delivered.

We also partnered with the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering’s (ATSE) STELR programme to bring hands-on STEM equipment to four specially selected schools in our communities across Victoria and NSW. This is giving their students hands-on experience with science and technology, helping spark ideas about the kind of change they can be involved with.