Australian Renewable Energy Map.

Australia is undergoing the largest land-use transformation in its history. The Australian Renewable Energy Map, created by conservationist Steven Nowakowski in collaboration with Rainforest Reserves Australia, reveals the true scale of industrial renewable projects across the nation.

This is the first national tool that allows you to:
✅ Zoom into your suburb.
✅ See every wind, solar, offshore, and BESS project near you (current and proposed).
✅ Explore the full environmental and economic footprint of the rollout.

The Australian Renewable Energy Map is a resource for every Australian — farmers, coastal communities, city dwellers, and policymakers. It’s about transparency, accountability, and protecting our habitats from industrial renewables being built over and over again.

Before You Continue

The Australian Renewable Energy Map is free to use, but it’s only possible thanks to the supporters of Rainforest Reserves Australia.

To keep this tool online, updated, and available to all, please consider:

Joining Rainforest Reserves Australia → Be part of a national movement defending habitats.

Donating → Every contribution supports mapping, research, and advocacy.

Subscribing → Sign up for our newsletter to stay updated and connected.

Go to the Australian Renewable Energy Map page (via the button above or below).

Please allow time for data to upload - this can take a while as the data set is quite large.

Zoom right in and scroll around. 

Click on projects to see detailed information about size, type, and web link back to source data.

Use filters on left tab to explore by wind, solar, transmission, or offshore.

Share the link with your neighbours, community, council, or Member of Parliament.

Disclaimer:   The Australian Renewable Energy Map  offers a concise, regularly updated map of industrial renewable‑energy projects nationwide. While most listings are active or planned, some projects have been cancelled or remain uncertain; we keep them visible so the public stay informed.

We know there are missing projects in this mapping. We are only volunteers and do our best to find projects but developers sometimes do not want to be found!

This is why we need you in regional communities to email us with projects that you know of. It helps if you can include the name of the project, location and a web link to the developer or development application.

Please email missing data to:

info@stevennowakowski.com

LATEST NEWS: We have embarked on mapping all the proposed high voltage transmission. Keep returning for updates. Additionally, we will be indicating which projects have been withdrawn or paused to differentiate from proposed projects and withdrawn projects.

367 BESS projects (210 stand alone, 44 with wind, 113 with solar)

13 Hydrogen

18 Hydro Projects (historical)

27 Pumped Hydros

563 Solar

297 Onshore Wind (101 commissioned & operational) + 66 no data projects

30 Offshore Wind (proposed)

2 Tidal

Total 1,226 projects

Total of 327 wind farms (commissioned and proposed)

Some keys statistics in mapping:

- Total length of proposed new haulage roads for wind:

46,167.5km

- Total surface area for solar:

Existing 29,675ha

Proposed 447,134 ha

- Total undersea cabling length for offshore wind:

Proposed 16,973km

- Total number of wind towers mapped:

Existing 4,669

- Total number of wind towers mapped (including hydrogen & offshore wind):

Proposed 31,163 (+3,964 no data projects & 5,495 for hydrogen)

Total 35,127

- Total number of solar panels (utility and rooftop):

Existing 84 million

Proposed 591 million

TOTAL COST   $1.328 trillion (excluding transmission, roof top solar, home BESS & 15GW of new gas projects)

Q: What is the Australian Renewable Energy Map?
A: The Australian Renewable Energy Map is the most comprehensive database of renewable projects in Australia. It shows existing and proposed wind farms, solar works, offshore wind towers and BESS installations.

Q: How do I use it?
A: Zoom into your local area. Click on projects for details. Click on any project to see more information, including links back to the source data such as EPBC Act referral or developers website.

Q: Do I need to log in?
A: No. The Australian Renewable Energy Map is free to access. 

Q: Can anyone use it?
A: Yes — it’s designed for all Australians, and anyone globally who wants to understand the sheer scale and cost of Australia’s industrial renewable rollout: the impact on our land and oceans. 

Q: Where does the data come from?
A: The data is drawn from government planning documents, corporate disclosures, and community submissions. It is verified and maintained by a team of volunteers at Rainforest Reserves Australia.

Q: Why do I need to go through this page first?
A: The staging page explains the context of the Australian Renewable Energy Map and invites you to support the work that makes it possible. Without community backing, projects like this cannot continue.

If you are interested in obtaining this spatial mapping data or parts thereof in GIS file format please contact us.

We can also provide mapping services for regional communities in different formats such as 3d modelling.

© 2025 Australian Renewable Energy Map (AREM) is copyright protected by Steven Nowakowski – All rights reserved.

For commercial reproduction enquiries please contact:

Steven Nowakowski

e: info@stevennowakowski.com