From some of the most remote islands on earth to the world’s biggest climate stage: REnew Pacific is taking the Pacific and Timor-Leste’s clean energy stories to COP31, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Antalya, Türkiye.
Launched at COP29 by Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, REnew Pacific is the Australian Government’s $75 million investment delivering off-grid renewable energy to some of the Pacific and Timor-Leste’s most remote communities. Two years on, and building on earlier pilots, the program is changing how essential services are powered and sustained across the region.
At COP31, we’ll be hosting Keeping the lights on, a session at the Australian Pavilion that looks beyond the technology to what makes off-grid renewable energy endure. Installing solar is the easy part. Keeping it running for years, in communities prone to cyclones and fuel crises, is the real test, and this session shares how Pacific communities and partners keep the power on through quality, maintenance, local ownership and financing that lasts.
You’ll hear from Australian and Pacific Government leaders, alongside REnew Pacific’s Team Leader and project delivery partners from communities across the region. From solar that has weathered a Category 5 cyclone, to communities sustaining their own island systems, they’ll share a practical model for delivering clean energy that lasts where it’s needed most.
Here are the details:
📅 Wednesday 11 November 2026
📍 Australian Pavilion, COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye
🕘 9.00 to 9.45am (local time)
🎟️ Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/keeping-the-lights-on-sustaining-solar-systems-beyond-the-technology
Can’t make it? The event will also be livestreamed via the DCCEEW YouTube channel, with the link available from 12 November.
REnew Pacific is made possible through the Pacific Climate Infrastructure Financing Partnership (PCIFP), a $350 million initiative delivered by the Australian Government’s Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) and implemented by Palladium.
