Clean Energy Council

02/06/2026

The annual report for the New Energy Tech Consumer Code (NETCC) program, which the Clean Energy Council administers, is out now.

In a huge year for rooftop solar, home batteries and EV chargers, the program has helped bolster consumer protection 💪

Download the report 👉 https://www.newenergytech.org.au/articles/netcc-annual-report-2025

The NETCC Annual Report 2025 is here, providing a comprehensive overview of how the program helped protect consumers as sales of solar, batteries and EV chargers soared.

✔️ We reached 2,020 Approved Sellers, a 20% lift on 2024. We rejected 16% of applications for not meeting the grade.
✔️ We opened 185 audits of Approved Sellers to ensure ongoing compliance
✔️ We dealt with a record 445 complaints, resulting in 83 compliance cases where a breach of the NETCC was found
✔️ We expelled 4 Approved Sellers for major breaches of the Code, ensuring these retailers can’t participate in associated government programs

The energy transition depends on consumers being able to trust the businesses they deal with and the NETCC is playing an important role in building that confidence.

Find out more about what the program achieved in 2025 and the next steps for 2026 in the NETCC Annual Report 👉 https://www.newenergytech.org.au/articles/netcc-annual-report-2025

01/06/2026

🗣️ Apply to speak at Clean Energy Council masterclass sessions at All Energy Australia

All Energy Australia, the southern hemisphere’s largest clean energy event, returns to Melbourne on 28-29 October 2026.

Our masterclass sessions will offer installers, designers and retailers the chance to learn about the latest advances in technology, regulation and best practice from industry experts.

Rooftop solar, home battery and EV charging experts are invited to speak or host small group workshops on relevant topics here" https://forms.monday.com/forms/20ede04cb5e6c987b01d9f69ea20a0fc?r=apse2

Submissions close at 11.59pm AEST on Friday, 3 July.

29/05/2026

Power bills are set to fall for a number of customers as renewables continue to drive cheaper wholesale prices.

The Australian Energy Regulator has released its final Default Market Offer for 2026–27 — the price cap that sets what households and small businesses on standing electricity plans pay across NSW, SE Queensland and South Australia.

It’s lowering electricity prices by up to 10% for consumers on those plans from July and more for small businesses, driven in large part by lower wholesale prices from renewables and batteries. It follows a similar decision in Victoria where prices will fall by 5-6% on average.

It’s a strong signal of what renewables are doing in Australia’s energy system. Cheap solar and wind energy are driving down wholesale electricity prices, often reaching negative prices in the middle of the day, and batteries are helping ease prices in peak evening periods. These lower wholesale prices are helping to offset the rising cost of new transmission needed in the short-term to support the transition to renewables.

That’s why building transmission and renewable energy at scale is urgent. Delays in delivery increase costs and keep us locked in to ageing coal power stations which are increasingly failing.

The evidence is in: solar, wind, and batteries can provide power more cheaply than fossil fuels.

28/05/2026

This week, the chimney stacks at Liddell Power Station were demolished, a symbolic reminder that Australia's coal era is ending and clean energy is taking its place.

Like many coal-fired power stations in Australia, Liddell lived beyond its expiry date. Boiler failures during peak heatwaves in 2017, 31 unscheduled restarts in 2022 and hundreds of millions spent on repairs and maintenance.

The path forward is clear. Renewable energy backed by storage and firming is the cheapest way to build new energy generation.

That’s why AGL and Fluence have built the 500 MW Liddell Battery on the site of the former coal-fired plant. It involved 600 workers during construction and commissioning and forms a key part of its planned Hunter Energy Hub.

This is what the energy transition looks like. The challenge now is scaling clean energy quickly as coal increasingly fails.

28/05/2026

That was the Australian Wind Industry Forum 2026!⚡🍃🌊

Over 600 wind energy professionals came together at Centrepiece, Melbourne, for one high-impact day of insight, connection and honest conversation about the future of Australia's wind industry.

From reaching FID and the latest in wind technology, to planning, approvals and community - the conversations in that room will help shape what comes next for onshore and offshore wind in Australia.

To every speaker, delegate, Career Launcher student and partner who made the day possible - thank you. The quality of expertise and genuine commitment in that room made today something special.

A huge thank you to our Platinum Partner Goldwind, Gold Partners Envision Energy and Offshore Wind Energy Victoria and Networking Drinks host Tilt Renewables.

See you at the Australian Wind Industry Forum 2027! 👋

27/05/2026

This National Reconciliation Week, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which clean energy projects operate.

The energy transition must work for and provide real benefit to First Nations Australians, as it must for all Australians.

The clean energy industry is making real progress. Our members’ Best Practice Charter 2025 reports show that First Nations engagement is no longer treated as a cultural heritage compliance step, but as a genuine relationship spanning the project lifecycle. That means co-designed benefit-sharing agreements, shared governance, procurement and employment opportunities, and increasingly - equity ownership.

The reports show examples of what this looks like in practice:

💪🏿 a custom work package worth over A$3 million for a local First Nations contractor at Atmos's Merredin battery
👷🏿 a 42% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce at Beon's Broadsound Solar Farm
🫱🏼‍🫲🏿 Iberdrola becoming the first offshore wind developer to reach an Engagement Agreement with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation

And last year, the country's first developer–First Nations equity partnership not underpinned by native title or land rights, was formed between AMPYR and the Wambal Bila community for the Bulabul Battery, giving the community real ownership in the project.

And more equity and revenue sharing is on the way. Earlier this week, the latest tender round of the Capacity Investment Scheme launched, with part of the tender set aside for renewable energy projects that commit to 5%+ equity and/or revenue sharing agreements with First Nations communities.

The successful projects will play an important part in continuing to grow and deepen the industry’s commitment to working with local indigenous communities on Country.

Find out more about how renewable projects, underwritten by the Capacity Investment Scheme, are engaging and sharing benefits with First Nations communities at First Nations Clean Energy Network’s website https://www.firstnationscleanenergy.org.au/all_cis_projects

Find out more about broader benefits projects are delivering across regional Australia in our Best Practice Charter 2025 reports https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/advocacy/best-practice-charter-2025-reports

And find out more about reconciliation and at https://www.reconciliation.org.au/our-work/national-reconciliation-week/

26/05/2026

Over 600 wind energy professionals came together in Melbourne today to share insights, discuss key issues and forge the connections that will build the wind energy future Australia needs.

Sessions on project delivery and regulatory reform tackled the practical barriers holding back wind projects from getting built. Conversations on community and biodiversity underlined that getting this right is critical to project success. And our offshore wind sessions covering costs, grid technology and supply chain development, showed just how much momentum is building in that space.

As our CEO Jackie Trad put it:

"We are not just rebuilding a grid. We are rebuilding the industrial base of an economy. And we are doing it at a moment when the geopolitical, sovereign capability and commercial case has never been stronger - or more urgent."

To every one of the 600+ attendees who joined us today, thank you. The quality of conversation, the expertise in the room and the genuine commitment to getting this right made today invaluable.

The day isn't over yet. We're looking forward to continuing the conversations and catching up with many of our members at tonight's networking drinks, hosted by Tilt Renewables.

A huge thank you to our partners for making today possible: Platinum Partner Goldwind, and Gold Partners Envision Energy and Offshore Wind Energy Victoria.

26/05/2026

The Australian Wind Industry Forum is officially underway at Centrepiece, Melbourne — and what a start. 🌬️

Setting the tone for the day, our CEO Jackie Trad celebrated the progress the wind industry has made from a marginal technology two decades ago to a cornerstone of the national energy system today. Drawing on our newly released Clean Energy Australia 2026 report, she outlined that the challenge is no longer about proving the technology, it's about building wind projects at the pace we need as coal stations retire.

With the state election on the horizon, the Hon. Lily D'Ambrosio MP, Minister for Energy and Resources, and the Hon. David Davis MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, outlined their respective visions for wind and energy in Victoria. As Southerly Ten's Erin Coldham noted in the Industry Outlook Panel that followed, the shared focus from both parties on affordability and security can provide cause for confidence in wind and clean energy.

Envision Energy's Peter Cowling, the SEC's Bianca Claassen and Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner Tony Mahar joined Erin Coldham to take on the big themes running through today's program: transforming technology, planning and place, and building certainty for investment.

A packed afternoon lies ahead across four concurrent streams and eight sessions. Stay tuned for more from the floor.

We are proud to be joined by Platinum Partner Goldwind and Gold Partners Envision Energy and Offshore Wind Energy Victoria.

25/05/2026

Today, we released the Clean Energy Australia 2026 report, our annual snapshot of the clean energy transition.

The picture it paints is one of enormous momentum as renewables grow to account for 43% of Australia’s electricity, but also one of real urgency, as investment falls to one of its lowest levels in a decade.

Clean energy is delivering jobs, community benefits and investment across regional Australia and has the potential to power new markets from data centres to green iron ore. We need to come together to unlock those opportunities.

Read the Clean Energy Australia 2026 report → https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/news-resources/clean-energy-australia-report-2026

22/05/2026

⏳ Last chance to apply to speak at All Energy Australia Exhibition & Conference 2026!

If you are helping to design, deploy, finance or regulate the technologies shaping Australia's energy future, this is your opportunity to share real world insights and influence the conversations that matter.

Apply as a speaker, moderator, chair or panelist at Australia's largest clean energy event, returning to Melbourne on 28 and 29 October.

Topics span everything from grid integration and battery storage to green hydrogen, EVs, policy reform, and much more.

Applications close on 29 May. Don't miss your chance to be part of it. 👉 https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/78988a5ab21745eca6469a93a646fd1a