Committee Details

On 16 October 2025, the Honourable David Janetzki MP, Treasurer, Minister for Energy and Minister for Home Ownership introduced the Energy Roadmap Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill) into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Governance, Energy and Finance Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory Speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility

According to the explanatory notes, the aim of the Bill is to amend the Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Act 2024 (Energy Act) to align with the objectives for Queensland’s energy system as outlined in the recently announced Queensland Energy Roadmap.

To achieve this purpose, the Bill proposes to:

• repeal the current renewable energy targets under the Energy Act
• update the energy system planning framework to implement a flexible and market-based approach
• replace the current requirements to describe changes in the operations of publicly owned coal-fired power stations and include capacity estimates to achieve renewable energy targets
• clarify public ownership provisions to confirm the State will retain 100 per cent public ownership of its existing operational generation assets
• repeal the Energy Industry Council, the Queensland Energy System Advisory Board and the Queensland Renewable Energy Jobs Advocate
• amend the Priority Transmission Investment (PTI) framework to improve its flexibility and efficiency
• rename the Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) framework as ‘regional energy hubs’ and remove unnecessary prescription and processes from the framework
• establish the mechanism for the responsible Ministers to facilitate and support the delivery of the CopperString project.

Call for submissions

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill from all interested parties.  Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here: Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements.

Click here to make an online submission to the Bill. 

If you are unable to provide a written submission, please contact the secretariat to discuss other options.

The closing date for written submissions is 12:00pm on Thursday, 30 October 2025 

Submissions must include:

• the author’s full name
• if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and 
• at least two of the following:
• email address
• mailing address, and
• daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has scheduled a public briefing on the Bill with Queensland Treasury on Monday, 27 October 2025 and a public hearing with stakeholders on Wednesday, 29 October 2025.  See timeline below for further information.

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are available under the Related Publications tab.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday, 5 December 2025. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline