# The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act

Date: 2025

## The fact

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.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act on 2025-02-20 is not a licence to treat every later Federal Register of Legislation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Capacity Investment Scheme is written into the Climate Change Act into a personality. 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.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Renewable capacity buildout: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-renewable-buildout
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.dcceew.gov.au/energy/renewable/capacity-investment-scheme
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2025A00013/asmade

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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