Skip to content
law adoptionVerified

The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act

On 20 February 2025 the Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Act 2025 received Royal Assent as Act No. 13 of 2025. In the causal graph this event strengthens Renewable capacity buildout, a driver that strengthens Renewable share of global electricity generation — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

On 20 February 2025 the Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Act 2025 received Royal Assent as Act No. 13 of 2025. Schedule 2 inserted a Capacity Investment Scheme program into the Climate Change Act 2022, requiring arrangements that result, by the end of 2030, in at least 23 GW of renewable generation and 9 GW of clean dispatchable capacity. Later uplifts to 40 GW sat as children.

Context

Rewiring sat as parent finance. Neighbouring 2035 target is a later child. He did not sit as every auctioneer.

Rewiring October 2022 is the parent. 2035 target September 2025 is a child.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Anthony Albanese

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.7 · verified

    Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. Bowen administered. AEMO and CEFC share auctions.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.DCCEEW — Capacity Investment SchemeDCCEEW · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Act 2025Federal Register of Legislation · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Federal Register of Legislation carries the official instrument or communique. DCCEEW records the same dated act independently.

Established: 20 February 2025 Royal Assent writing 23 GW / 9 GW into the Climate Change Act, independently placed on the departmental record.

Not established: that 23 GW was thereby already built that Thursday, or a unique later wholesale-price coefficient.

The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. Bowen administered. AEMO and CEFC share auctions.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act, not a later speech about The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. Bowen administered. AEMO and CEFC share auctions. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAnthony Albanese
  2. contributed toFactThe Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Renewable capacity buildout
  4. strengthensIndicatorRenewable share of global electricity generation

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/au-cis-2025

https://factrail.ai/facts/au-cis-2025

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.