Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will present a plan for the next decade, which is one of the biggest announcements our government has made.
The plan, which has been in the works for almost a year, is expected to include infrastructure investments in regional Queensland, and the government is tight-lipped about it.
The government has stated that it will meet its energy target of 50 per cent renewables by 2030, but has not indicated whether those targets will increase.
Queensland needs to increase renewable generation by 29 per cent in eight years to meet those targets.
The announcement comes after two days of energy campaigning by the state government, including revealing a $776 million investment in Australia's largest state-owned wind farm in the South Burnett region.
It's investments like this that will ensure we deliver on our net-zero ambitions and our promise to Queenslanders to become a global renewable energy superpower, Ms Palaszczuk said.
The government is celebrating Queensland's solar uptake spruiking data from Australia's Energy Market Operator showing last Monday September 19 that solar generation accounted for a quarter of all energy generated in Queensland, or equivalent of powering 2.4 million homes, which is the equivalent of 38 gigawatt hours in one day.
Queenslanders have some of the highest rates of rooftop solar in the country.
The government has the chance to match that community appetite by building large-scale renewables. Ms McKeown said that the QCC was hoping for more publicly owned renewable projects in the regions like the recently announced windfarm.
She said the industry has been leading in the conversation about renewable energy and that's what we're hearing from regional Queensland.
This is a great opportunity for the government to show that it has a plan to support regional Queensland.
Anything coming from the Queensland government will bring us closer to building the big renewable powered industries for the regions. There are 21 per cent of Queensland's electricity generation from renewable sources.
The Queensland Resources Council is a commercial developer of minerals and energy.
Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said it was important that the state's energy supply is reliable and affordable.
He said the plan will have to deal with the days when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing, so that every Queenslanders and our industries can be confident they have access to 24 7 reliable energy.
The pathway to less emissions needs to be managed in an orderly and common sense way, and the resource sector supports the transition to a lower emissions future.