Our Energy Roadmap is a pragmatic plan that improves the energy assets we’ve got while building what we need for the future. This transition will deliver affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all Queenslanders.

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Queensland’s Energy Roadmap. A pragmatic plan to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable power.

Sharing our Energy Roadmap with Queensland.

Our Roadmap today charts the start of the journey in a uniquely Queensland way.

No matter your vantage point, there is no more important task than delivering affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for Queenslanders.

The Energy Roadmap provides clarity for the future of coal and gas, and support for private sector investment in renewables and firming projects.

Our Roadmap strengthens the system and will be ready to respond to changing circumstances over the next 5 years.

In February we had a record high daily demand of more than 11GW. And yet, just 6 weeks ago, we achieved a new minimum demand record of less than 2.8GW. There’s no better example of how our energy system is changing – and rapidly.

To underpin our government’s support of the Western Link, a $200 million North West Energy Fund will support local generation and storage solutions – in partnership with the private sector – including to improve energy reliability at Mt Isa, Cloncurry, Julia Creek and Richmond.

The QIC Copperstring review affirms the government’s decision to commence work on the Eastern Link first to connect Hughenden and the substantial renewables resources to the NEM sooner.

We’re backing in the outback and communities in the North West by delivering CopperString, allocating a record $2.4 billion in the budget.

The Crisafulli Government will create a new $400 million Queensland Energy Investment Fund for QIC to bring Queensland energy supply and firming projects from origination to operations, inviting collaboration from the private sector and GOCs.

Smaller, more manageable pumped hydro will play a pivotal role in stabilising Queensland’s power grid. It is uniquely capable of smoothing out variations in energy supply, ensuring consistent and reliable power for Queenslanders.

We’re establishing a new QIC Investor Gateway to lead future investigation and investment partnerships with the private sector on all prospective pumped hydro energy projects for the Queensland GOCs.

Energy Queensland will continue its rollout of community level batteries, including a $10 million partnership fund to further incentivise private sector investment.

The Roadmap confirms our budget investment of $379 million in new utility-scale batteries at existing power station sites and $135 million to install network-scale batteries across the distribution network.

Queensland has some of the highest quality wind and solar resources in the nation and the Roadmap sees renewables continuing to be built to support demand growth, in a responsible way supported by landholders, local governments and regional communities.

As part of a new Investor Gateway, QIC will undertake market sounding to partner with the private sector to deliver an additional 400MW of gas-fired electricity in Central Queensland.

Gas has emerged as a critical technology for system reliability and firming as the generation mix changes over time.

Our $1.6 billion Electricity Maintenance Guarantee will support investment into our state-owned generators to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable power for Queenslanders.