Western Australia Allocates $502 Million to Energy Transition

Western Australia (WA) has allocated $502 million (US$331 million) of funding to expedite the state’s goals of a cleaner, affordable, and reliable energy future. According to Premier Roger Cook, the fund will open up strategic industrial areas statewide to attract major clean industries to WA, including Latitude 32 in Kwinana, Karratha, the Peel region, the Goldfields, and South West. The funding includes a further $324 million investment that will enable the extensive planning and procurement of long-lead transmission infrastructure for the state’s main electricity network, which is expected to boost industry growth, job-generating renewable energy projects, and renewable energy use. The same funding will support Western Power, which oversees the electricity network in WA’s most populated area, in continuing to assess and develop potential Clean Energy Link transmission projects that will contribute to meeting renewable generation demand in the state....