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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Katharine Murphy and Adam Morton

‘Rewiring the nation’: Albanese and Andrews governments to jointly fund renewable energy zones

An offshore wind park, with the turbines seen built coming out of the ocean.
The Victorian government has set sets targets of having 4GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035 and 9GW by 2040. Photograph: ABACA/Rex/Shutterstock

The Albanese and Andrews governments will jointly fund renewable energy zones, offshore wind projects and interconnectors under the first tranche of Labor’s “rewiring the nation” commitment to plug more renewable power generation into the national grid.

The new agreement, reached ahead of next Tuesday’s federal budget and the Victorian state election in November, will see $1.5bn in concessional financing made available for renewable energy zone projects in the state.

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