NSW Wind Delays Leave State More Dependent on Coal

New South Wales now has the lowest share of renewable energy in its power grid of any Australian state or territory, as the Minns government struggles to roll out large wind projects needed to limit dependence on coal. The slump puts the state’s energy transition behind Queensland, where renewable construction has boomed even as the Crisafulli government scrapped green energy targets and coal closure dates.

Who Controls the Transition

The report describes a stalled rollout under the Minns government: several large wind projects are needed, but the government is struggling to get them moving. The consequence recorded is a renewable share that has fallen to the lowest of any Australian state or territory for the first time. That’s the hard measure of the gap between a government’s responsibility for the grid and the pace of the change its own state needs.

The report identifies New South Wales as Australia’s biggest state economy. Its renewable investment slump isn’t an abstract contest between governments; it sits alongside the state’s continued dependence on coal. The article gives no figures for the renewable share or the projects’ capacity, so there’s no basis here for dressing the setback up with numbers it doesn’t provide. The direction is plain: new green investment has slumped, and the wind projects needed to curb coal reliance remain difficult to roll out.

Queensland’s Different Route

Queensland offers a contrast, not a simple story of official virtue. Renewable construction has boomed there despite the Crisafulli government scrapping green energy targets and coal closure dates. Those details sit together in the report: construction is advancing while the government has removed targets and planned closure dates. The article doesn’t say those decisions caused the boom, or explain what drove construction, and it gives no reason to pretend that state policy and actual building are the same thing.

The comparison leaves both governments’ choices visible. In New South Wales, the report links struggling wind-project rollout with the state’s lowest renewable share and a slump in green investment. In Queensland, construction has boomed despite the scrapping of targets and coal closure dates. Neither description makes ordinary people the authors of these decisions. The report names governments and energy projects; it doesn’t quote residents, workers, or communities describing what the energy system costs them.

What the Report Leaves Out

There’s no grassroots response, mutual-aid effort, direct action, or community-led energy project described in the article. No residents or project workers speak. No election or legislative remedy appears, and no nonprofit or other institutional helper is named. Those absences matter to the account: it records action—or stalled action—at the level of governments, investment, construction, and the grid, without showing how people outside those institutions are organizing or what they want.

The report was written by Ryan Cropp and Brittney Levinson. It offers no project names, investment totals, renewable-share percentages, or quotes from either government. What it does establish is stark enough: New South Wales’ renewable share has fallen to the bottom among Australian states and territories for the first time, while the government struggles with wind projects intended to limit coal dependence. Queensland’s construction boom makes the contrast sharper, not simpler. The figures aren’t supplied; the hierarchy of decisions is.