Australia has fired the starting gun on a new tender under its flagship Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS), aiming to support 1.8 GW of renewable power generation capacity in Western Australia, within the Western Energy Market (WEM), the federal government said today.

New CIS tender launched for another 1.8 gigawatts of new wind and solar, but in a state where the government utility is happy to write contracts to help replace coal.

Australia has fired the starting gun on a new tender under its flagship Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS), aiming to support 1.8 GW of renewable power generation capacity in…