Victoria opened Australia’s first offshore-wind auction for 2 gigawatts; bids close in August 2027, with contracts due later that year.

The government of Victoria opened a request for proposals for 2 gigawatts of offshore-wind projects. The process was described as Australia’s first offshore-wind auction.

The state said the planned projects could generate enough electricity to supply approximately 1.5 million homes. That household-equivalent figure is a government estimate associated with the full 2-gigawatt program.

Proposals are due in August 2027, and the related contracts are expected to be finalized during the second half of 2027. The opening of the auction does not mean the capacity has already been awarded, financed, constructed or connected to the grid.

The source does not identify winning developers, individual project capacities, contract prices or commercial-operation dates. The 2-gigawatt figure represents the auction’s requested project scale.