Program · Outcome 1: Support improvements in the competitiveness and an increase in of renewable energy and related technologies and the supply of renewable energy and related technologies by providing financial assistance and, sharing information and knowledge to facilitate the achievement of Australia’s greenhouse gas emission targets and contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Paris Agreement
Program 1.1: Australian Renewable Energy Agency
To provide financial assistance to Australian researchers, innovators and business for projects that have the potential to lead to the commercialisation of new renewable energy products or services; and to support collaboration and knowledge sharing to make information and data available to a diverse audience and help increase the spread of ideas.
Australian Renewable Energy Agency, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 158 reported
+$185m (+519.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
A further $18m is listed for this program but not counted, because it is counted elsewhere or is not an expense. Each line below says why.
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011 | corporate | $0 | $212m | +$212m new | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 208 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | corporate | $67m | $18m | −$49m −72.5% | not counted: funding already counted at the paying department | Table 2.1.1, row 207 |
| Revenues from other independent sources | corporate | $19m | $9.0m | −$10m −52.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 210 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | corporate | $17m | $0 | −$17m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 209 |