Navigator North Offshore Wind Gippsland Scholarships

  • Category Foundation
  • Location Gippsland
  • Annual value $5,000
  • Open date 06/01/2025
  • Close date 02/03/2025
  • Study sector Higher education
  • Study level Bachelor; Honours; Postgraduate
  • Student type Domestic; International
  • Student status Continuing; New / commencing
  • Additional eligibility criteria
    • Preference for woman/female students
    • Preference for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students
    • Applicants must reside in the Gippsland region
  • Scholarships available 4

How to apply

Applications open 6 January, 2025.

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Once applications open, you can apply through the Scholarships and Grants portal.

About  Navigator North Offshore Wind

About our project
Origin and RES have formed a partnership to develop the Navigator North Offshore Wind project.  
Our offshore wind farm will be situated off the coast of Gippsland in Bass Strait between the locations of Golden Beach and Lakes Entrance and will contribute significantly to the zero net carbon targets set by the Victorian and Federal governments. Our project area covers some 700km2 where the average water depth is only 59 metres providing an ideal project site for our 1.5GW project. The estimated 80 to 110 fixed bottom turbines reach a height of approximately 300 metres to tip height. We’ll provide power for around half a million homes and operate for an estimated 30 years avoiding around 1.28 million tonnes of carbon per annum.

About Origin
Origin is an Australian energy company with more than 4.6 million customers and approximately 7,800 Megawatts of power generation capacity across Australia. Our ambition is to lead the energy transition through cleaner energy including accelerating emissions reduction across Origin to meet net zero emissions by 2050. To ensure that we meet our ambition we are building our pipeline of renewable energy and storage options.

The Navigator North offshore wind project aligns with Origin’s commitment to transition to renewable energy generation in future and has a primary purpose of delivering cleaner energy.

About RES
RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, working across 24 countries and active in wind, solar, energy storage, green hydrogen, transmission, and distribution. An industry innovator for over 40 years, RES has delivered more than 26GW of renewable energy projects across the globe, with plans to bring more than 22GW of new capacity online in the next five years.

RES brings to the market a range of purposeful, practical technology-based products and digital solutions designed to maximise investment and deployment of renewable energy. RES entered the Australian market in 2004 and now employs over 180 people and has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and multiple regional locations.