Australia: Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation Program (Power Resilience Round)

The TDRI Program Power Resilience Round will focus on funding innovative solutions that will strengthen the resilience of telecommunications against the impacts of power outages. The Power Resilience Round has three focus areas:

• Focus area 1: Stand-alone, off-grid power solutions
• Focus area 2: Deployable power solutions
• Focus area 3: Energy efficient telecommunications infrastructure

The objective of the TDRI program is to improve the preparedness of Australia’s telecommunications networks against rising climate risks, including against an anticipated increase in the frequency and severity of natural hazards in Australia, by:

• supporting and accelerating the development and deployment of innovative, new or emerging technologies that will improve the resiliency of telecommunications, particularly in rural, regional, remote or First Nations communities;
• demonstrating the benefits of emerging telecommunications technologies in improving disaster resiliency outcomes; and
• encouraging greater collaboration and partnerships between industry and government stakeholders on telecommunications disaster resilience matters.

Funding Information

• Total Amount Available (AUD): $30,000,000.00
• Estimated Grant Value (AUD): From $50,000.00 to $5,000,000.00
• Grant Activity Timeframe: You must complete your project by 30 June 2025.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible, you must:
  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
  • be registered for the purposes of GST
• and be one of the following entity types:
  • a company incorporated in Australia
  • a company incorporated by guarantee in Australia
  • a partnership where each partner is a constitutional corporation
  • a joint (consortia) application of incorporated entities
  • a publicly funded research organisation that is a company incorporated in Australia
  • An Australian local government body, or state/territory government body, where an application involves a partnership with at least one other eligible entity (under subsection 4.1.2 or 4.1.3 as applicable).
  • an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006.
• In addition, if your application is targeting Funding Stream 2: Deployment Grants, to be eligible you must also be:
  • a Mobile Network Operator (MNO);
  • a Mobile Network Infrastructure Provider (MNIP); or
  • an NBN corporation as defined in Clause 1 of Schedule 1 of the National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011.

For more information, visit Australia Government.