The Western Australian Government is investing in the state’s renewable future, with its 2025–26 Budget aiming to position Western Australia as a renewable energy powerhouse.
Under its Made in WA plan, the State Government has pledged to fast-track clean energy projects and support local manufacturing of the components needed to deliver renewable energy infrastructure.
This includes a $584 million investment in Clean Energy Link – North and Regans Ford terminal to unlock wind generation north of Perth, expanding renewable generation and enabling the shutdown of coal-fired power stations by 2030.
The 2025–26 Budget also outlines more than $2.7 billion of new investments in economic infrastructure to unlock new and expand established industries. This includes a further $500 million boost to the Strategic Industries Fund – taking the total to $1 billion – which will support provision of further common-user infrastructure at Strategic Industrial Areas around the state including in Kwinana, the Pilbara and Kemerton.
The Western Australian Government has also pledged $50 million to support local battery manufacturing; $83 million to produce electric buses and ferries in the state; and $30 million to go towards a further round of funding for new energies industries through the Investment Attraction Fund to support critical minerals, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage projects.
A $25 million investment has also been announced to help diversify the state’s economy and secure the poles and wires needed to deliver the Western Australia’s energy transition.
This includes $10 million to help deliver an advanced manufacturing facility in Forrestfield, which will supply Western Power with the thousands of kilometres of transmission lines it is expected to require to deliver the state’s energy transition.
Western Power will also become a foundational customer of a new a new Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Hub (AMTECH) in Picton, and has been allocated via the Strategic Industries Fund to support the planning for this facility.
A further $10 million has been allocated in the State Budget for a Local Industry Development Fund, helping Western Power achieve the highest level of commercially viable local content in delivering the energy transition.
The Budget also includes a $337 million boost for the Residential Battery Scheme to enable more Western Australian households to store the renewable energy they generate at home.
Other key investments include:
- $3.5 million to progress detailed design for Berth 8 and 9 at the Port of Geraldton, providing capacity to support renewable energy projects such as wind turbine blades
- $500 million increase to the Strategic Industries Fund (to $1 billion), which will support activating strategic industrial areas across the state, including in the Pilbara, South West and Mid West
- $30 million towards the Collie Industrial Transition Fund to further support the transition of Collie’s economy to new and emerging industries
- $13.5 million to undertake network connection works required for a new 50 per cent renewable power generation station
- $5.3 million for the new Blackstone Power Station and Solar Farm (partially funded by $1 million in federal funding)
- $4.5 million to finalise the replacement of a transformer at the Murdoch Drive Zone substation in the Pilbara
- $1.6 million towards the Pilbara Energy Transition Plan
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