Clean Energy Australia report

The Clean Energy Council, the peak body for Australia’s renewable energy industry, congratulates the Australian Labor Party on a decisive and historic victory at the 2025 election - a vote of confidence by the Australian people in the nation’s clean energy future.

The Clean Energy Council (CEC) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government on the ACT Emergency Backstop Capability Consultation Paper.

At least $58 billion worth of new private investment in clean energy would be wiped from Australia’s economy, with more than 42,000 full-time equivalent jobs and billions of dollars in community benefits at risk if renewable energy is capped at 54 per cent of Australia’s electricity mix under the Coalition’s energy agenda, new modelling has found.

Private investment foregone: an analysis of the economic impact of a stalled clean energy transition

Is it just me or have we somehow gone back in time? US President Donald Trump is introducing 1960’s era tariffs and isolationist polices that are creating massive global economic risk and uncertainty. While here at home, the Federal Coalition is proposing to halt private investment in the lowest cost form of energy generation (renewables) and instead focus on the highest cost forms of generation (nuclear and gas) with 1960’s levels of government ownership and taxpayer funding.

Today’s commitment by Federal Labor to provide a 30 per cent discount on the upfront cost of purchasing a home battery, through its Cheaper Home Battery Program, is a significant and welcome cost of living measure that will supercharge energy savings for the four million Aussies with rooftop solar on their homes.