Coordinating the energy transition across Australia is key to meeting the economic stretch goals in the Australian Government's Technology Investment Roadmap: First Low Emissions Technology Statement - 2020.68
The Australian Government must develop an overarching national planning framework across all energy sources. There should be dedicated working groups for significant policy matters that include other relevant policy stakeholders.
This approach would build on coordination programs like the Distributed Energy Integration Program led by AEMO and ARENA, and the work undertaken in 2019 across the Australian Government and state and territory governments to develop the National Hydrogen Strategy.
National coordination will enable consistent planning across jurisdictions through collaboration, knowledge sharing and shared infrastructure.
The Australian Government should also coordinate planning between state and territory governments. With state-based hydrogen strategies in place across South Australia,69 Queensland,70 Tasmania,71 Victoria72 and Western Australia,73 national coordination has been identified as a key action in the National Hydrogen Strategy.74