{"id":742694,"date":"2026-06-17T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742694\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:10","slug":"partnering-with-communities-to-enable-renewable-energy-delivery-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742694\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnering with communities to enable renewable energy delivery in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    In 2023, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) launched Aula to develop, build, own and operate onshore renewable energy projects across Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Through board representation and active ownership, MAM collaborated with Aula&#8217;s management to embed social licence and community alignment into the core of its governance and strategy &#8211; driven by a structured community engagement framework built on early, intentional and tailored engagement with local communities and Traditional Owners.<\/p>\n<p>At Aula&#8217;s 228 MW Boulder Creek Wind Farm (BCWF) in Queensland and 256 MW Carmody&#8217;s Hill Wind Farm (CHWF) in South Australia, both currently under construction, Community Liaison Groups have been established to empower local stakeholders, ensure local voices shape project outcomes and directly influence the allocation of community-led benefit funds.<\/p>\n<p>At CHWF, consistent stakeholder management over a five-year period was instrumental in securing community confidence ahead of Final Investment Decision in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>At BCWF, Cultural Heritage Investigation Management Agreements are in place with the Traditional Owners of the land, ensuring a collaborative approach to protecting and managing cultural heritage throughout construction and into operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) launched Aula to develop, build, own and operate onshore renewable energy projects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5629,4225,64,63,20855,357902,44],"class_list":["post-742694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-anz","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-case-study","tag-energy-and-climate-solutions","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}