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Sustainability

Delivering for the future
Field Crews check Ausgrid Community Battery

Ausgrid strives to be a sustainable business. We work safely and responsibly to deliver on our vision for communities to have the power in a resilient, affordable, and sustainable future.

We are committed to continually improving our environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Ausgrid's ESG guiding principles are set out in our Sustainability Policy.

FY25 Business and Sustainability Review

The FY25 Business and Sustainability Review is our seventh annual Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability report and describes how we address the sustainability issues that matter most to our stakeholders and business. This is accompanied by our FY25 Corporate Governance supplement and the FY25 ESG Data Book.

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FY25 Highlights

Ausgrid Group has made strong progress in FY25 across our four sustainability priorities. Driven by our purpose, we’re moving toward a more sustainable future, using our network to not only distribute electricity but transmit it, store it, and enable vehicles to be charged with it.

Find out more in our FY25 Business and Sustainability Review.

Accelerating the clean energy transition

  • Adding 1 GW of network transfer capacity, enabling the connection of renewable generation through Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone (HCC REZ)
  • 322 EV chargers on our poles and kiosks and 22 community batteries installed on our network by the end of June 2025

Fostering a safe, inclusive and engaged workforce

  • 50 new apprentices commenced our Bright Sparks Apprentice program in FY25
  • In August 2025, we launched our fourth Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), reflecting Ausgrid Group's ongoing commitment to reconciliation

Investing and cultivating trust in communities we operate in

  • $200 estimated annual discount for eligible customers who opt into Energy Storage as a Service (ESaaS)
  • 22 Grants for Good awarded, investing $140k in grass roots community organisations

Strengthening the resilience of our network and supply chain

  • $56m in climate resilience investments to be delivered by FY29
  • After the major storm in January 2025, we restored services to 99% of impacted customers within five days, marking it one of the fastest storm recoveries we have ever achieved

Our Annual Sustainability Reporting Suite

FY25 Business and Sustainability Review

Sustainability performance and impact.

FY25 Corporate Governance supplement

FY25 ESG Data Book

FY25 GRI Content Index

FY24 Modern Slavery Statement 

Learn more about sustainability at Ausgrid Group

Environmental

 Our Future Grid Climate Change Resilience Environment

Social

 Modern Slavery Procurement and Suppliers Customer Engagement Inclusion and Diversity The Energy Charter Your safety

Governance

 Board of Directors Ausgrid Leadership Team Corporate Policies Debt Investors Regulation

Please see our Corporate Policies and Reports page to access our recent publications.

Report archive

12/11/24 FY24 Ausgrid Sustainability Report 13.4 Mb 12/11/24 FY24 Sustainability Report - ESG Data Book & GRI Index 0.7 Mb 17/05/24 FY24 Ausgrid Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Report (TCFD) 4.1 Mb 28/11/23 FY23 Ausgrid Sustainability Report 8.1 Mb 28/11/23 FY23 Sustainability Report - GRI Content Index Table 0.9 Mb 13/06/24 FY23 Carbon Emissions Performance Report 1.3 Mb 23/08/23 FY22 Ausgrid Carbon Emissions Performance Report 1.2 Mb 26/10/22 FY22 Sustainability Report 3.8 Mb 19/10/22 FY22 Sustainability Report - GRI Content Index Tables 0.4 Mb 07/06/22 FY21 Sustainability Report 2.6 Mb 28/07/22 FY21 Carbon Emissions Performance Report 0.9 Mb 07/06/22 FY21 Sustainability Report - GRI Content Index Tables 0.3 Mb 23/09/21 FY20 Sustainability Report 2.4 Mb 23/09/21 FY20 Sustainability Report - GRI Content Index Tables 0.2 Mb 05/06/20 FY19 Ausgrid Sustainability Report 6.5 Mb