Renewables & rural Australia - A study of community experiences in Renewable Energy Zones in NSW and the case for more equity and coordination of the clean energy

Recognising the breadth of the harms unfolding, our work aims to both effect and affect the personal and cultural, the social and political, the ecological and economic. [...] Our report is meant as a contribution to the all-important detail contained in delegated legislation and the policies, procedures and plans of the bodies that will implement them: the department, Energy Corporation of NSW (EnergyCo NSW) and the new Consumer Trustee. [...] The ESB’s consultation paper proposed that the 10 Terms of Reference for Review: Review of the adequacy of the existing framework to manage issues and opportunities from the forecast growth in the renewable energy and the agricultural sector in NSW, n.d. [...] The Consumer Trustee can also impose conditions to the transmission projects to give effect to the guidelines about consultation and negotiation with First Nations community and the plan for the renewable energy sector in the State. [...] Renewable energy Independent Power Producers are increasing competition in the market and are the biggest change in the ownership structure of the energy industry since privatisation and marketisation began in the mid 1990s.