Energy Consumers Australia sees great potential value in continuing that exchange of ideas and
experience that Gill Owen exemplified.

The Gill Owen Scholarship supports an individual to travel internationally to research innovative ideas and initiatives that will be relevant to improving outcomes for consumers in the Australian energy market. Energy Consumers Australia will work with scholarship recipients to help them identify appropriate opportunities to communicate the findings of their research, and to help identify relevant international contacts.

Examples of activities that could be funded include:

• visits to one or more countries to learn from energy consumer activities and experiences;
• meetings with key stakeholders in selected countries;
• research on issues or relevance to Australian energy consumers;
• written report documenting the learnings from the research and or overseas stakeholder meetings and their potential relevance for Australia; and
• in Australia, meetings with consumer groups, energy companies, government officials to promulgate research findings and recommendations.