– Tom Dixon, Queensland Community Engagement Manager, and Megan Kessler, Policy and Research Manager, RE-Alliance. Queensland is on the cusp of a once-in-a-generation transformation. With more than $70 billion of wind, solar, battery and...

RE-Alliance has considered the Net Zero Commission’s 2025 Consultation Paper through the lens of our work to support regional communities in the shift to renewable energy. With that in mind, RE-Alliance makes the following...

Tracey Richards is a Queensland cattle grazier who worked with Greenleaf Renewables for 2.5 years to host turbines within the Moonlight Range Wind Farm project near Rockhampton. The project received state planning approval in...

RE-Alliance welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Draft 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan (VTP) developed by VicGrid. Ensuring there is transmission capacity available for renewable generation and storage to connect into is one of...

– Tony Goodfellow, Policy and Engagement Manager Overseas, painted wind turbine blades are decreasing bird impacts and acoustic detection is reducing bat impacts. So, why aren’t things like that happening here in Australia? It...

– Tom Dixon, Queensland Community Engagement Manager, RE-Alliance. RE-Alliance welcomes the Queensland Government’s renewed focus on the leadership role for local governments and social impact assessment in renewable energy planning, as seen in the...

– Tony Goodfellow, Policy & Engagement Manager, RE-Alliance. The draft Victorian Transmission Plan (VTP) was published last month by Victoria’s grid planning agency, VicGrid – and it’s open to public feedback until 24 June,...

– Andrew Bray, RE-Alliance National Director.  Every time a light is switched on in a farmhouse, or a dairy, or an abattoir, that electricity has arrived via a power line that runs across the...

This is the trailer for 'Renewables done right', a series where rural and regional Australians share their experiences of living alongside renewable energy. Hear stories about how Aussies are farming alongside solar panels, wind...

In an unprecedented show of unity, and in the face of the escalating impacts of climate change and rapid biodiversity loss, industry, community and environmental organisations are calling on the Albanese Government to deliver...

The Queensland Government has a proposal to formalise social impact assessment and mandate the provision of community benefits, which we have provided a submission response to. RE-Alliance generally welcomes the proposal to formalise social...

– Tom Dixon, Queensland Community Engagement Manager, RE-Alliance. Queensland is racing toward a clean energy future, with more than $70 billion worth of wind, solar, storage and transmission already in the pipeline. But while regional...

Victorian rural and regional communities have more certainty about the shift to renewables, with the release of the draft Victorian Transmission Plan – but more engagement is needed. The Victorian Government’s draft Transmission Plan,...

– Mark Squires, NSW Community Engagement Manager. As many people focused on the renewable energy shift in New South Wales will know, there’s been a flurry of activity in the past couple of months....

The New South Wales Government is currently reviewing its transmission planning arrangements and options for reforms, in the 'Transmission Planning Review 2025 Options Paper'. The Renewable Energy Alliance (RE-Alliance) recognises the importance of transmission...

“The Waubra Wind Farm pays $100,000 a year that the community fund has and spends on projects just within this area. For a small community like us, that’s just gold.” Watch David Clark, farmer...

Regional communities, particularly those living in renewable energy regions across Australia, now have certainty following the weekend’s federal election result.  The nation has clearly endorsed the job we’re already halfway through completing: powering our...

The Victorian Government is reviewing its climate legislation and consulting with stakeholders about their views. We provided a short response outlining that the Renewable Energy Alliance strongly supports Victoria in establishing a clear, ambitious...

– Tom Dixon, Queensland Community Engagement Manager, RE-Alliance. Queensland’s renewable energy future has been thrown into question. Yesterday, at his first major speech on energy, David Janetski announced the Crisafulli Government would walk back...

"Anything that has an environmental benefit is something that we're prepared to embrace and engage with, and renewable energy is one of those concepts." "The income from the turbines has offset some of what...

MEDIA RELEASE Nuclear support has melted down in proposed nuclear communities, new polling released by a not-for-profit organisation working with regional communities for more than a decade, RE-Alliance, revealed today. Energy attitudes polling by...

The Renewable Energy Alliance (RE-Alliance) and Community Power Agency – two organisations working for more than a decade in renewable energy regions – say last night’s budget is a missed opportunity for regional communities....

– Toby Thorpe, Tasmania Community Engagement Manager. Tasmania continues to play an important part in Australia's renewable energy shift, with ambitious goals to not only meet but exceed its energy needs through renewable sources....

Our team is often out and about speaking at various events, ensuring regional communities are at the forefront of conversations about the renewable energy shift. Here’s where you can find us in the coming...

"It's showing a 20% increase in the wool cut of the sheep from under the panels, compared to the control flock outside the panels. So from a wool growing point of view, it'll be...

"Farms are big energy users. In lowering those costs, renewables was the only kind of option. I can't see producing food becoming any cheaper, but I can see producing power becoming cheaper." Watch Sophie...

"We just work round the power lines as we would with any obstacle. They don’t really have a big impact for anything that we do day-to-day." Watch Lee Kingma, Tumut grazier, on his experience...

"We negotiated a decommissioning fund. So it’s just a peace of mind to eliminate any financial exposure to the landholders. Just remember it’s your farm and you negotiate what you feel comfortable with." Watch...

"A sector like renewables in a community can create more flow on benefits. We have these opportunities to control our own power, share our own power and generate our own power and I think...

"Probably the most unexpected part about it is how easily it has integrated into my farm. Look I’m pretty proud of it, and I like being here and I like working here." Watch Lindsay...

Community groups have labelled the Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy’s decision not to announce funding for Local Energy Hubs at last night’s Hunter Community Alliance (HCA) Assembly as a missed opportunity. An...

We're pleased to welcome three new staff members to the Renewable Energy Alliance team, all doing critical work to support rural and regional communities in the renewable energy shift. Mark SquiresNSW COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER...

When Alison McLean first heard about the renewable energy projects rumoured to be coming to Hay, a farming town in the western Riverina region of New South Wales, she was concerned. It was 2022,...

The Renewable Energy Alliance (RE-Alliance) Board has elected Anna Hancock as its new Chair at its February meeting. Anna is Executive Director at Pollination with 25 years of energy and resources sector experience in...

Communities want a stake. Industry needs certainty. Farmers want options. – Tom Dixon, Queensland Community Engagement Manager, RE-Alliance. RE-Alliance welcomes recent announcements by the Queensland Government on increased community consultation and planning, but cautions...

As Ausgrid consults communities about upgrades to critical network infrastructure to support the Hunter Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone, local groups are urging the Federal Government to deliver a Local Energy Hub to the...

The NSW Parliament is running an inquiry on renewable energy developments in regional and rural areas. RE-Alliance has worked in New South Wales for over a decade with communities and industry on renewable energy...

Unreliable coal-fired power generators and a lack of adequate transmission infrastructure are driving energy prices up according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics Report out today. The data shows that states...

We responded to the Queensland Government consultation on their Draft Renewables Regulatory Framework. The Framework can – we believe – play a key connecting function between planning, policy and practice by renewable energy developers...

The findings in the Climate Council’s report Electric Shock! Australia’s Lightbulb Moment, released today, confirm the huge information gap that exists among communities when it comes to renewable energy – most Australians don’t know...