States of Transition

Today in Parliament, Abigail passed a motion commending the June release of the States of Transition report, which tracks renewable energy progress across states and territories, and called on the NSW Government to collaborate with communities and experts to enhance strategic planning and accelerate the renewable energy transition.

Abigail said:

I move:

(1) That this House notes that conservation councils across Australia have come together to release States of Transition in June 2025, a report tracking renewable energy progress across states and territories which found that:

NSW is currently ranked fourth out of seven states and territories on the percentage of energy currently from renewable sources, with only 37% renewable energy generation,
63% of NSW’s energy needs are being met by coal and gas, 13% by rooftop PV, 10% by large-scale solar, 10% by wind and 4% by hydro,
most states and territories have enough renewable energy project proposals ‘in the pipeline’ to meet 2030 renewable energy targets; for NSW, we could meet our targets 2.5 times over,
to reach 83% renewables by 2030, the level of renewable generation required under the AEMO ISP step change scenario, NSW will need to accelerate its renewable energy deployment as it is currently not on track to achieve this based on current build rates,
NSW has a significant amount of renewable generation capacity in its pipeline, however very little of the pipeline is in the advanced stages of deployment with only 3% under construction (i.e., beyond the committed status of deployment) and the remaining 97% of the pipeline only ‘anticipated’ or ‘publicly announced’,
NSW has considerable potential to deploy significantly more rooftop PV across residential, commercial and industrial rooftops; accelerating the uptake of rooftop PV in NSW can reduce the need for as much investment in large scale generation and storage capacity and transmission infrastructure, particularly in the short term, and
the NSW Consumer Energy Strategy has significant opportunity to accelerate CER uptake to complement large-scale deployment, however the details of the NSW government’s allocation of $290 million is yet to be confirmed.

(2) That this House commends the work of all those involved in the creation of the States of Transition report, including the Nature Conservation Council of NSW which has been the voice for nature in NSW for over 65 years.

(3) That this House calls on the NSW government to commit to working with communities and experts to improve strategic planning of renewable projects, to accelerate our renewable energy transition and promote environmental protection, restoration and connectivity.

Motion agreed to.

9 September 2025

Read the transcript in Hansard here.

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