The SEC has begun powering Victoria with 100 per cent renewable energy

The Allan Labor Government is focused on what matters most – cutting your power bills, not cutting the State Electricity Commission (SEC), a government owned renewable energy company.

Following the Victorian Budget 2025/26, which invested $302 million to drive down power bills, the Victorian Government announced the signing of retail contracts to power all Victorian Government operations with cheap, renewable electricity.

Since July 1, 2025, the SEC has begun powering Victoria’s schools, hospitals, museums, trains, trams, traffic lights and more with clean, reliable, publicly owned renewable energy. It’s the first time the SEC is delivering power to Victorians since it was sold off by the Liberals 30 years ago.

The SEC is lighting up classrooms across 1468 public schools, kindergartens and TAFEs across the state. It is powering our hospitals. It is powering our large police stations, fire stations and our essential water infrastructure.

The SEC will keep the lights on at some of the state’s most iconic sites, including the Melbourne Park precinct, Melbourne Zoo, NGV, Melbourne Museum, Flinders Street Station, Parliament House, Phillip Island’s Penguin Parade, Mount Buller and Mount Hotham.

The SEC is powering the way we move around the state. More than 350 million trips across the state each year on Victoria’s train and tram network are running on clean, renewable energy. It will power the Metro Tunnel when it opens later this year. It will power our traffic lights and the freeway lights that guide us home.

The SEC is supplying 100 per cent renewable electricity generated by its own projects, as well as Victorian Renewable Energy Auction contracts, such as Berrybank Wind Farm, Cohuna Solar Farm, Dundonnell Wind Farm, Winton Solar Farm and Bulgana Green Power Hub.

The signing of the retail contracts means the SEC will enter the market servicing five per cent of Victoria’s electricity consumption – making it the fifth largest commercial and industrial electricity retailer in the state.

And later this year, the SEC will expand its retail offering to sell renewable electricity to commercial and industrial businesses – helping them switch to cheap renewable energy too. All profits made by the SEC will be invested back into the SEC’s projects that deliver more renewable energy and cheaper power bills for all Victorians.

The SEC is building 819 MW of solar and battery storage at the SEC Renewable Energy Park in Horsham and the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub near Melton – this will pump more renewable energy into the grid, drive down energy prices for Victorians and slash emissions as we work towards net zero by 2045. •