On Monday 4 September 2023, the Federal Government tabled in the House of Representatives its latest raft of industrial relations reforms through the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (Cth). This Bill is significant, running to 278 pages and covering 28 distinct parts. It proposes reforms that will have a substantial impact on … Read more

CYBERATTACKS ON ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA On Thursday the 25th of July 2019, the City of Johannesburg’s electricity service provider, City Power, suffered a ransomware attack which encrypted its databases, applications and network. The attack disabled the utility’s website and prevented its customers from being able to purchase electricity from the utility which potentially … Read more

Since Herbert Smith Freehills’ last update on the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) in July, the Commonwealth Government has released a Public Consultation Paper (Consultation Paper) for the proposed approach and design of the CIS. Our previous article noted several potential eligibility criteria, as well as detailed the recently announced partnership between the NSW Government and … Read more

The Commonwealth has launched the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS), a national framework in which the Federal Government expects to unlock around $10 billion of investment and add 6 gigawatts to support electricity grid reliability and security. Read more

On 3 June 2023, the Queensland Government took the first steps to legislate on Queensland’s renewables targets by releasing a draft of the Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Bill 2023 (Draft Bill). The Draft Bill aims to implement the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan, which sets out Queensland’s commitments, frameworks and governance to increase the … Read more

Herbert Smith Freehills in collaboration with Aluko & Oyebode is hosting an Energy & Infrastructure Construction Law Roundtable on Thursday 8 June 2023 in Lagos, Nigeria. Read more

The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2023 was passed by the Australian Parliament on 30 March 2023.  The Bill was primarily introduced to enable the crediting element of the reform, however the changes negotiated with the Australian Greens Party are not limited to crediting and will extend beyond amendments to the Bill itself. We explore key aspects … Read more

The NSW election on 25 March has resulted in a change of government. A Chris Minns-led Labor team will form a government with an interim Ministry sworn in on Tuesday, 28 March 2023. While we wait for the final counts to come in, we look at what the change of government might mean for energy, … Read more