About Us

Brown Coal Innovation Australia (BCIA) is a not-for-profit, member-based company with a mandate to invest in the skills development of the future workforce and the technologies required to achieve a sustainable, low-emissions future for brown coal.

BCIA funds and facilitates multi-million dollar research and skills development investments to drive innovation in the brown coal value-chain; from mine-mouth to the capture of CO2. Strategic management of its R&D investment portfolio underpins BCIA's innovation support and operational activities.

BCIA innovation funding supports research and development initiatives that are technically excellent and that will lead to increased commercial deployment of low-emissions brown coal technologies in the short, medium and long term.