2024 was the biggest year for clean energy investment since 2018
Read our summary of the quarterly investment report from Q4 in 2024.
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13 Feb 2025
Renewable energy investment reached new highs in 2024 with a massive $9 billion invested in renewable energy projects across the year, along with 10,000 new jobs.
The Quarterly Investment Report revealed that Australia had its best year for large-scale renewable energy investment since 2018 with 4,346 MW of new generation capacity.
Pleasingly 4,029MW / 11,348 MWh of new energy storage projects were also committed over the year.
The quarterly result, which saw 1,598 MW of new generation capacity committed across seven projects is in line with the pace required for Australia to maintain its timely transition to a grid powered by clean energy, in the face of ageing and increasingly unreliable coal fired power stations.
Highlights for the quarter include:
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