Target achieved: powering more renewable energy generation than we use

Adding renewable energy to the grid

Through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs), we’ve partnered with solar and wind farm developers across the country to help bring new renewable energy online.  

At the same time, we’ve improved the efficiency of our own operations by optimising energy use and decommissioning legacy infrastructure. These efforts have significantly reduced our electricity needs and in 2024, we increased the ambition of our scope 1+2 emissions targets from 50% to 70% reduction by 2030.* 

* Excluding Digicel Pacific. 

Through our power purchase agreements across Australia, we're supporting more than $1.6B in renewable energy projects, with a contracted capacity of more than 860MW of solar and wind capacity. 

- Tom Penny, Head of Environment Telstra 

Our renewable energy projects

Caption: Map of Australia showing the locations of power purchase agreement (PPA) wind farms at: Murra Warra (Vic), Crookwell III (NSW) and MacIntyre (Qld). It also shows PPA solar farms at Glenellen (NSW), Emerald Park (Qld), Munna Creek (Qld) and Bundaberg (Qld).  

These projects are helping to accelerate the transition of Australia’s electricity system while supporting regional economies: 

New South Wales 

• Crookwell III Wind Farm: 58MW site capacity, PPA signed 2021, fully operational 
• Glenellen Solar Farm: 200MW site capacity, PPA signed 2023, partially operational 

Queensland 

• Emerald Park Solar Farm: 72MW site capacity, PPA signed 2027, fully operational 
• MacIntyre Wind Farm: 890MW site capacity, PPA signed 2022, partially operational*
• Munna Creek Solar Farm: 120MW site capacity, PPA signed 2023, fully operational 
• Bundaberg Solar Farm: 78MW site capacity, PPA signed 2023, commissioning 

Victoria  

• Murra Warra Wind Farm: 226MW site capacity, PPA signed 2017, fully operational 
  

*Total generation capacity at this farm will be 923MW. The capacity of the grid to accept energy generated at the site is 890MW.

Supporting renewable generation since 2016 

We were an early‑adopter among Australian corporates entering into power purchase agreements and we have supported the growth of the renewable energy industry in Australia since 2016. These investments increase renewable energy in Australia’s electricity grid for the benefit of all users, support regional jobs and help us manage our energy costs by mitigating volatile electricity prices.

While these investments enabled renewable generation to exceed our electricity use as at the end of 2025, we do not currently claim the use of renewable energy from the projects ourselves, nor has it directly contributed to our emissions reductions to date.

Our other environmental commitments 

Achieving our renewable energy generation target marks the successful completion of just one of our environmental commitments. Our other targets remain continue to guide our actions:

• Reduce our scope 1+2 emissions by 70% by 2030 (from an FY19 baseline)*
• Reduce our scope 3 emissions by 50% by 2030 (from an FY19 baseline)*
• Reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. 

Learn more about our emissions reduction goals

*Scope 1 + 2 and Scope 3 emissions targets all exclude Digicel Pacific. 

Improving our energy resilience

We continue to explore how we can use batteries in innovative ways to keep our customers connected, especially when we lose access to mains power.

These upgrades also provide the opportunity to use electricity more flexibly across the day, helping us better align our consumption with periods of lower emissions intensity and support grid stability. This helps contribute to improved system efficiency while supporting broader efforts to manage our emissions and energy costs.