Energy Powerhouse Takes Green Step to National Leadership

Members of Queensland’s Ministerial Energy Council met on 5 December 2022 to discuss key priorities to address cost of living and energy for households and businesses, and take real action on climate change through the state’s renewable energy transformation.​

​Energy Minister Mick de Brenni took the first official step ahead of the establishment of the national Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council by inviting the Hon Meaghan Scanlon MP, Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs to join and help prepare Queensland to take national climate change leadership. MEC members noted the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan has a target to reduce household and business electricity emissions by 96% by 2040. They also discussed the need for every element of the national energy framework to be working in concert towards reducing emissions and driving new renewables and storage.​

​​The Minister sought MEC members’ priorities and ideas on renewable energy supply chain development. MEC members discussed the Queensland Government’s Energy Manufacturing Opportunity Prospectus released in October 2022, which has already received significant response from more than 230 companies ready to build the manufacturing capacity in Queensland to deliver the SuperGrid. MEC members noted that a national cross-portfolio approach would build on this momentum and further drive renewables and jobs in regional areas​.

The Council encouraged Energy Ministers from around Australia to come to Queensland and see how the energy transformation is taking shape.

The Minister thanked MEC members for their ongoing engagement.  ​

Approved by Ministerial Energy Council
5 December 2022