Melbourne, Australia

Utility Debt Spiral Project

Between 2003-2005, this project worked to explore and address the relationship between the impact of utility bills and broader social issues. The process has proven that the Model can work by coordinating over twenty: community groups, NGO’s, utility companies, government departments and statutory bodies in order to explore and develop innovative solutions to this intractable issue. Corporate participants include Origin Energy, Powercor and Citipower, TXU, City West Water, South East Water and Yarra Valley Water.
Programme Cities are responsible for the identification, management, conclusion and communication of their project. It must be noted that the Cities Programme is strongly based on local capacity building and does not seek to replicate or simply overlay outcomes from one city to another. Managing the project implementation process is a key part of capacity building.

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