Australian Renewable Energy Agency Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 6 March 2025
Sam Mostyn AC
Governor‑General
By Her Excellency’s Command
Chris Bowen
Minister for Climate Change and Energy
Part 1—Preliminary 1
1 Name..............................................1
2 Commencement........................................1
3 Authority............................................1
4 Schedules............................................1
5 Definitions...........................................1
Part 2—Australian Renewable Energy Agency 3
6 ARENA’s prescribed functions—Clean Energy Innovation Fund...........3
7 Amounts available for payment to ARENA........................3
Schedule 1—Repeals 4
Australian Renewable Energy Agency Regulation 2016 4
This instrument is the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Regulations 2025.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 8 March 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
(a) ARENA;
(b) Climate Change Convention;
(c) financial assistance.
In this instrument:
Act means the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011.
clean energy technologies has the same meaning as in the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012.
For the purposes of paragraph 8(f) of the Act, ARENA has the following additional functions:
(a) to assist the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the governance, management and administration of the Clean Energy Innovation Fund in relation to clean energy technologies;
(b) without limiting paragraph (a) of this section, to do the following:
(i) provide assistance to persons developing project proposals for financing from the Clean Energy Innovation Fund;
(ii) provide advice to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in relation to such proposals.
Amount for 2037‑2038 financial year
(1) For the purposes of item 14 of the table in subsection 64(1) of the Act, the amount prescribed for the 2037‑2038 financial year is $50,000,000.
Additional amounts
(2) For the purposes of subsection 64(2) of the Act, an amount specified in column 2 of an item (the relevant item) of the following table is prescribed for the purposes of the item of the table in subsection 64(1) of the Act that is specified in column 1 of the relevant item.
Additional amounts | ||
Item | Column 1 Item of table in subsection 64(1) of Act | Column 2 Additional amounts |
1 | Item 3 | $100,000,000 |
2 | Item 4 | $150,000,000 |
3 | Item 5 | $190,000,000 |
4 | Item 6 | $200,000,000 |
5 | Item 7 | $200,000,000 |
6 | Item 8 | $200,000,000 |
7 | Item 9 | $200,000,000 |
8 | Item 10 | $200,000,000 |
9 | Item 11 | $200,000,000 |
10 | Item 12 | $190,000,000 |
11 | Item 13 | $100,000,000 |
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.