• About
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Events
Friday, July 11, 2025
Newsletter
SUBSCRIBE
  • News
    • Events
  • Features
  • Electricity
  • Gas
  • Renewables
    • Batteries & Storage
    • Hydro Power
    • Hydrogen
    • Solar
    • Wind
  • Smart Energy
No Results
View All Results
  • News
    • Events
  • Features
  • Electricity
  • Gas
  • Renewables
    • Batteries & Storage
    • Hydro Power
    • Hydrogen
    • Solar
    • Wind
  • Smart Energy
No Results
View All Results
Home News

ARENA reforms expand remit

by Annabelle Powell
August 5, 2021
in News, Renewable Energy, Spotlight
Reading Time: 2 mins read
A A
solar panels wind turbines transmission grids
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Federal Government’s reforms to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have received support from Parliament, expanding its remit. 

ARENA is now able to support a broader range of technologies to advance the priorities of the Government’s Technology Investment Roadmap.

The Federal Government will invest $20 billion in new energy technologies by 2030, to drive at least $80 billion of total public and private investment over the decade. This investment is expected to support at least 160,000 new jobs.

The Federal Government said ARENA will now play a major role in driving investments in the next generation of technologies, including:

  • Energy efficiency
  • Carbon capture technologies (including CCUS and negative emissions technologies) 
  • Blue hydrogen (clean hydrogen from gas using CCS)
  • Energy storage technologies to back up renewable energy and soil carbon

The regulatory change also allows ARENA to implement $192.5 million of programs in the 2020-21 Budget, including:

  • $67.9 million to support for heavy vehicle fuel efficiency and industrial energy efficiency
  • $71.9 million to support hydrogen and electric vehicle infrastructure as part of the Government’s Future Fuels Fund
  • $52.6 million to support microgrids for regional Australia

These programs are estimated to create 1,400 direct and indirect jobs and support more affordable and reliable power in regional Australia, new transport infrastructure and increase the competitiveness of energy-intensive industries.

Expanding ARENA’s remit to unlock the transformative low emissions technologies that businesses need was a recommendation of the King Review.

The Government’s Technology Investment Roadmap and Low Emissions Technology Statements aims to follow these recommendations, with support of agencies like ARENA.

Related Posts

Image: uflypro/stock.adobe.com

Powering Australia’s energy future

by Sarah MacNamara
July 10, 2025

As Australia’s energy landscape grows more complex, the infrastructure supporting it must be more adaptive, sustainable, and future-ready. Schneider Electric’s...

Image: 1xpert/stock.adobe.com

Marinus Link one step closer

by Sarah MacNamara
July 8, 2025

The Marinus Link Pty Ltd (MLPL) Board has backed Marinus Link, recommending that its shareholders make a final investment decision...

Image: Arisa/stock.adobe.com

Australia’s $36B low carbon fuel opportunity

by Sarah MacNamara
July 8, 2025

A domestic low carbon liquid fuel (LCLF) industry could contribute up to $36 billion to the economy and reduce emissions...

Read our magazine

Join our newsletter

View our privacy policy, collection notice and terms and conditions to understand how we use your personal information.
Energy is a thought-leading, technology-neutral magazine, developed to help the industry answer some of the Energy sector critical questions it is currently grappling with.

Subscribe to our newsletter

View our privacy policy, collection notice and terms and conditions to understand how we use your personal information.

About Energy

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Digital Magazine
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Collection Notice
  • Privacy Policy

Popular Topics

  • News
  • Spotlight
  • Renewable Energy
  • Electricity
  • Projects
  • Networks
  • Sustainability
  • Gas

© 2025 All Rights Reserved. All content published on this site is the property of Prime Creative Media. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited

No Results
View All Results
NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE
  • News
    • Events
  • Features
  • Electricity
  • Gas
  • Renewables
    • Batteries & Storage
    • Hydro Power
    • Hydrogen
    • Solar
    • Wind
  • Smart Energy
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Events
  • Newsletter

© 2025 All Rights Reserved. All content published on this site is the property of Prime Creative Media. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited