Led by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation’s green energy directorate, the State government has collaborated with multiple agencies to establish the most efficient approvals pathway for this proposal and numerous renewable energy projects being pursued in Western Australia.
According to the Western Australian government’s website, the initiative is a “cross-government collaboration to deliver faster environmental approvals for renewable energy projects without compromising the unique environmental biodiversity of Western Australia”.
Now fully operational, the initiative is driving investment in wind and solar power generation, renewable hydrogen industries, lithium mining, and critical minerals processing, as well as the manufacturing of batteries, electrolysers, solar panels and wind turbines.