State Electricity Commission Partners with Kinaway!
Overview of the Partner’s business
SEC is a government-owned renewable energy company. We're helping to accelerate Victoria’s renewable energy transition by investing in wind, solar and storage, and making it easier for businesses to switch to renewable electricity and decarbonise. We’re also focusing on having a meaningful impact on Victorians – providing households with trusted, simple information, products and services to help them go electric. Underpinning all of this is our work to attract and build the renewable energy workforce our energy transition requires.
Engagement with the Indigenous sector & actions toward reconciliation
At SEC, our commitment to First Peoples is grounded in self-determination, deep listening, truth-telling and cultural authority. Through long‑term partnerships, co‑designed benefit sharing, First Peoples informed governance and a commitment to building cultural capability, we work to embed First Peoples’ self-determination principles across our organisation to create enduring opportunities for generations to come.
In early 2026 we launched the SEC First Peoples Self-Determination Strategy. A key strategic focus of the strategy is to deliver economic, cultural and social outcomes and drive First People employment and procurement opportunities.
First Peoples outcomes are embedded into our core procurement practices and form a key part of our Social Procurement Strategy. With support including from our Kinaway partnership, SEC has engaged with are broad range of Victorian First Peoples businesses across catering, legal, cleaning, cultural activities, artwork and compliance services. Across our investment projects we are exploring opportunities in traffic management, civil works, landscaping and more – with the aim to deliver meaningful and lasting economic benefits to First Peoples communities across Victoria.
Why did the Partner sign up with Kinaway?
The Kinaway partnership is directly aligned to SEC’s vision and supports our social procurement objective to deliver opportunities for Victorian First Peoples businesses.
By partnering with Kinaway, SEC aims to deliver more social value and support Kinaway and its members directly through social license partnership. Victorian First Peoples businesses play an important role in driving employment participation and inclusive economic growth. SEC recognises the importance of increasing the economic growth of Victorian First Peoples businesses and is committed to ensuring procurement decisions help generate social value.
What is the Partner’s mission or aim in supporting the Indigenous economy? How will Kinaway member businesses benefit from this partnership?
SEC aims to grow and promote more First Peoples businesses and support Kinaway to grow membership. We want to increase First Peoples employment opportunities on our asset projects and develop longer term employment opportunities beyond construction. We aim to enable access by making the procurement process streamlined and accessible.
How does the Partner hope to benefit from their partnership with Kinaway?
Kinaway offers SEC a certified network of members in regions in which we operate and can help us understand each members’ capability. Kinaway also provides SEC with the opportunity to build capability and social procurement awareness across our organisation, supporting the development of SEC’s people through events and industry knowledge. Through our Kinaway partnership, we can promote opportunities to First Peoples businesses and support our commitment to being a leader in First Peoples engagement and Self Determination best practice.
RAP
SEC commissioned highly acclaimed First Nations artist Simone Thomson to create an artwork that represents Country, the story and cultural significance of First Peoples, and how this intersects with SEC’s story.
Our energy systems – powered by wind, sun, water, and land – are inherently drawn from elements that First Peoples have long held sacred. This artwork represents First Peoples’ knowledge of energy systems, grounded in the layers of Country.
Simone’s wonderful artwork, Wa-dam-buk Murrup Biik – Renews Spirit of Country, beautifully embodies SEC’s commitment to self-determination and to work and walk alongside Traditional Owners and First Peoples.
