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An independent review of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has recommended 14 changes to the organisation's governance framework.

Australia's federal government has announced it will expand the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme to cover solar installations of up to 1MW.

Australia will move to ensure large-scale data centres are required to put at least as much green energy into the grid as they draw from it.

Australia’s Queensland has allocated AU$3.2 billion to the CopperString transmission project in its 2026-27 State Budget.

Australia will return AU$1.3 billion in uncommitted funding from clean energy manufacturing programmes as part of broader budget savings.

The New South Wales government has earmarked AU$2.1 billion (US$1.36 billion) for transmission infrastructure to connect its Renewable Energy Zones (REZ) and support utility-scale renewable and energy storage projects.

The Philippines has started an auction scheme for renewable power paired with storage which aims to tender over 9GW of capacity.

Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr attended as construction began on what is thought to be the world’s largest power plant to combine solar PV and battery storage.

Panama has become very attractive to investors due to the government deploying a range of fiscal incentives to support PV.

Many Australian state governments have implemented favourable economic policies to encourage more solar investment within their borders.