From a selection of 144 countries, KeyFacts Energy features Australia in the continuing series of 'at-a-glance' reports, with selected information taken from our popular 'Energy Country Review' database.
More renewable energy projects were pulled from the federal environmental approvals process in the first seven months of this year than in the two years before it, in the latest reality check for both the government and the renewables industry ahead of Jim Chalmers’s economic reform roundtable.
Not one of the 76 renewables projects needing federal environmental assessment in NSW, Victoria or Queensland in 2023 or 2024 has received final approval, as “green tape” regulation continues to undermine Labor’s clean energy and productivity agenda.
The cost of building NSW’s first renewable energy zone has risen to more than $5.5 billion in a further increase after last year’s jump, underscoring the hit to consumers from the transition to low-carbon power.
Australians will be paying the price of our governments’ great leap forward in transmission line rollouts and renewables for generations to come, writes Peter Hunt.