Climate change, energy, the environment and water
Australian Energy Regulator
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Market Monitoring | Medium | Active | 26.0 | 6.0 | 30 Jun 2027 | The project aims to collect, store and analyse highly sensitive energy contracts data and provide insights into the performance of the wholesale electricity and gas markets, greater scrutiny of the conduct of the energy market participants and broader understanding in the operation and impact of contract markets and overall resilience of the electricity and gas sectors. | |
| Retail Performance Reporting | Not reported | Medium | Active | 3.2 | 3.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The project will allow the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) to collect data from energy retail businesses efficiently, quickly and effectively conduct critical analysis to deliver stronger outcomes to energy consumers. Using improved data and digital systems, the AER will be able to provide richer and more timely insights into energy consumer outcomes including levels of debt and the assistance retailers are providing in this time of significant cost-of-living pressures. |
Bureau of Meteorology
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBUST | Medium | Medium-High | Closed | 865.7 | 682.0 | 30 Jun 2024 | The ROBUST Program is securing and strengthening all elements of the Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) operating environment to provide continuous availability of critical services and mitigate risks arising from the fragility of the existing technology environment. |
| ROBUST Transition Program | Medium-High | Active | 36.2 | 36.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The ROBUST Transition Program is the successor of the ROBUST Program that closed on 30 June 2024. The primary objective is to deliver the residual scope from the ROBUST Program to enable the Bureau to realise the full outcomes and benefits from the ROBUST Program. A second DCA assessment is currently in progress and expected to be available in early 2025. |
| Project name | 2024 | 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Market Reform | Not reported | High | Active | 32.7 | 18.2 | 30 Jun 2027 | This project is restoring transparency, integrity and confidence to water markets through a new single digital platform for national water data management, a new water market website and water market data standards. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Climate Risk Assessment – Technical Delivery Stream | Active | 19.1 | 0.2 | 30 Jun 2025 | The National Climate Risk Assessment is intended to identify and analyse nationally significant climate-related risks for Australia for action by the National Adaptation Plan. These are risks whose consequences would be pervasive and prolonged, and thus will require a national coordinated response. |
Clean Energy Regulator
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CER's Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) – Program Tranche 1: Core technological modernisation, streamlined digital services and transparency | Medium-High | Active | 145.0 | 63.4 | 30 Jun 2028 | The ITSI includes a broad range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. Program Tranche 1 establishes new business systems and core technological capability to streamline and improve digital services and transparency across the schemes that the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) administers. This includes initiatives started between 2020 and 2022 that are now well advanced, and at or near build completion. | |
| CER's Integrated Transformation and Sustainment Investment (ITSI) – Program Tranche 2: Leverage modernised capabilities and investment value extension | Medium-Low | Medium | Active | 96.1 | 43.5 | 30 Jun 2034 | The ITSI includes a range of individual initiatives that will deliver new business and technological capability to accelerate carbon abatement and improved biodiversity outcomes for Australia. From 2023, Program Tranche 2 extends core technological capability, delivering new schemes and continuing to modernise existing scheme administration and transparency. |
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capturing Australia's Emissions Reduction Data | Medium-High | Active | 21.8 | 13.8 | 30 Jun 2026 | The aim of this project is to support and enhance core IT systems for the ongoing delivery of Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts (historical and projected greenhouse gas emissions estimates) to fulfil legislative and international treaty reporting obligations, track progress against national emissions reduction targets, inform national and sectoral decarbonisation plans and 2035 target setting, and enable continued delivery of tools required for the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) scheme. | |
| Establishing Environment Protection Australia (EPA) | Not reported | Medium-Low | Active | 121.0 | NFP | 30 Jun 2027 | The aim of this project is to establish a new independent Commonwealth agency, known as Environment Protection Australia, to enforce national environmental laws and restore confidence in Australia's environmental protection system. The funding usage includes both operating costs and one-off transitional costs. |
| Improve Energy Planning | Not reported | Not reported | Active | 18.9 | 8.3 | 01 Jun 2026 | This measure seeks to improve energy planning and inform investment in energy networks and enabling infrastructure, including by developing new or improved energy forecasting models that enable more granular and integrated analysis of future energy demand. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program | Active | 9.3 | 3.0 | 01 Jun 2026 | To enhance climate risk management capabilities across the Commonwealth public sector, a new climate risk management guide and learning and development tools have been developed. To support this capability, the climate risk management digital tool currently being developed will be a user-friendly digital tool that provides the necessary data, knowledge and guidance to Australian Public Service agencies to produce climate risk assessment reports. |
| Digital Environmental Assessment Program | Active | 52.5 | 42.0 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Sustaining Environmental Assessments measure provided funds to extend this workflow system to include a searchable public register of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 offsets (the National Environmental Offset System) and for integration with the compliance investigations ICT system. This work includes design of functional interfaces with the systems being developed for compliance purposes and risk rating so that these systems can operate in the future as modules of a more comprehensive approach to managing information relevant to the protection of the environment. |
| Environment Information Australia | Active | 51.0 | 6.0 | 30 Jun 2027 | Environment Information Australia (EIA) has been established to provide accessible, interoperable and high-quality environmental data and information. The investment will support EIA to deliver environmental information, analytics and tools to support the operation of nature repair market, state of the environment reporting, and for environmental economic accounting. |
| Housing Energy Upgrades Fund (previously Empowering and Enabling Energy Performance) | Closed | 36.7 | 1.8 | 30 Jun 2024 | This project includes the discovery and alpha stages of a new Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS) registration system. The current GEMS registration system is ageing and unable to support implementing the requirements of an updated GEMS Act. |
| Initial Preparations to Host a UNFCCC COP (COP31) | Active | 76.2 | 2.7 | 31 Dec 2025 | Operational planning and initial procurements to deliver on the Australian Government's commitment to host the 31st conference of the parties (COP31) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in 2026 in close partnership with the Pacific. |
| Online Data Collection and Reporting Mechanism for the DEF Market | Active | 4.6 | 4.6 | 30 Jun 2025 | The purpose of the market transparency measure for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) sector is to establish a data collection and reporting framework for the DEF market to increase transparency and assist in avoiding future supply shortages. |
| Waste and Resource Recovery Data Program | Closed | 20.6 | 20.6 | 30 Jun 2024 | The program aims to present publicly available national data on waste and resource recovery online, and in visual form to support understanding. Work with state and territory governments will seek to standardise definitions and waste reporting. |
| Waste Exports Licencing and Declaration – WELD | Active | 0.7 | 0.7 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Waste Export Licensing and Declaration (WELD) database contains data relating to applications for waste export licences including licence variations, renewals and exemptions. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water uses the database to assess licence/exemption applications and manage issued licences/exemptions. Licence applicants and holders use the database to submit information to the department, communicate with the department and declare exports. |
Inspector-General of Water Compliance
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGWC ICT Enabling Systems | Active | 1.3 | 1.3 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Inspector-General of Water Compliance is a statutory authority with oversight and regulatory functions for managing water use in the Murray-Darling Basin, established by the Australian Government. To help manage these legislative objectives, this project will assess and design future state solutions for technology that will support establishing secure and integrated data and information management systems that align with whole-of-Australian Government security standards. |
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basin Plan Review ICT and Data Project | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 103.7 | 14.5 | 31 Dec 2026 | This project is implementing the Australian Government's commitment to safeguard and future-proof the Murray-Darling Basin by preparing for, and undertaking in full, the statutory Basin Plan Review. Outcomes include enabling data and ICT required to support the review, making data and information publicly available and accessible to a range of audiences, and managing delivery of the work program. |
Disclaimer
Certain numbers in this report have been rounded to one decimal place. Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures.