WHAT ARE RENEWABLE ENERGY ZONES?

Renewable Energy Zones are often located in regions abundant in renewable electricity resources, but may be some distance from electricity networks making individual connections to get the power out costly and difficult.

It is cheaper for multiple generators, such as wind and solar farms, to co-locate in the same area and share connection costs to the national grid through a single connection.

This would attract more electricity generation developers, which would introduce more competition into the electricity wholesale market, with associated benefits for consumers.