Australian Power Institute
- The Australian Power Institute (API) is a not-for-profit national organisation backed by power industry with the goal of developing the power sector workforce for the future.
- API joined Equal by 30 on January 9th, 2025.
- API is headquartered in Hobart, Tasmania.
- Learn more about the Australian Power Institute
Equal by 30 Commitments
- API to build map of diversity initiatives by member organisations (and the power engineering programs of universities).
- Promote the importance of diversity in the power sector workforce to undergrads students, to universities, to the public and high schools.
- Actively engage with universities on culture around valuing diversity in engineering programs (based on feedback from female engineering students in the PWLP program)
- Capture data on diversity in key segments of the power sector workforce and contribute to projects – such as the AEER – that capture data more broadly for diversity in the power sector workforce.
- Continue our existing initiatives to support and drive diversity in the power sector workforce, including our support for the UQ Women in Engineering program, our Powerful Women Leadership Program (PWLP), our Careers in Power portal featuring women and public outreach campaigns on career opportunities in the power sector.
- Project Energise (our volunteer ambassador program) to include details of the value of diversity and to actively encourage ambassadors to engage diverse audiences and share diverse stories of people and projects in the power sector.
- Deliver a “Powered by Diversity” national marketing campaign
- Link our support for the UQ Women in Engineering national university collaboration forum with key power engineering related academic communities (AUPEC and others()
- Deliver API member forums to share best practices, identify common issues and solutions.
- API to initiate actions - such as Powerful Women Leadership Program and Powered by Diversity lunch - to support members and the sector to enhance diversity.