About Bushlight

Bushlight is a renewable energy project which aims to increase access to sustainable energy services within remote Indigenous communities across Australia. Bushlight does this with a strong focus on community engagement in the energy planning process, and by designing robust, technically advanced renewable energy systems.

Bushlight is a project of the Centre for Appropriate Technology Inc. (CAT), based in Alice Springs. We have regional offices in Darwin, Derby and Cairns.

Bushlight strives to:

• Improve the reliability of renewable energy systems in remote Indigenous communities
• Improve the capacity and confidence of communities to choose and manage renewable energy services
• Establish a technical service network to service and maintain renewable energy services in remote communities

Bushlight works in the most remote regions of Central and Top End Australia, where communities are isolated by hundreds of kilometres of dirt roads, can be cut off by flood, and have no access to town water, power and other luxuries.

Without reliable access to fresh food and refrigeration, fuel and qualified technicians, Australia's remote communities need sturdy, innovative and interactive energy services.