Energising Change: Accelerating Australia’s Energy Transition Infrastructure

Australia’s transition to a clean energy future is accelerating—and delivering the infrastructure to support it requires collaboration, innovation and scale.

Energising Change: Accelerating Australia’s Energy Transition Infrastructure, an AFR Insights report supported by CIMIC and authored by The Action Exchange, explores the cutting-edge ideas, successful examples and scalable innovations that can expedite the build-out of clean energy infrastructure.

The report aims to initiate a public discussion about how Australia’s governments, infrastructure and energy sectors can accelerate the nation’s energy transition. It considers the benefits of:

• Adopting a simplified ‘one-stop shop’ for permitting, rather than overlapping state and federal processes.

• Streamlining permitting for projects of state and national significance.

• Implementing a coordinated approach to develop complex infrastructure projects.

• Adopting initiatives to share financial risk between government and the private sector.

• Developing deeper supply chain relationships that incorporate the early procurement of critical equipment.

• Ensuring equitable sharing of benefits with communities, local partnership models and benefit-sharing frameworks.

• Encouraging early collaboration between government, investors and developers to reduce cost and timeline uncertainty around complex projects.

Read the full report and the AFR’s coverage.