A $50 million fund to support students wanting to study clean energy trades is yet to pay out a single dollar, nearly a year and a half after it was funded in the budget.
The training fund was committed in the federal government's 2024-25 Budget last term to pay for upgrades to equipment and facilities for apprentices training in wind, solar, pumped hydro, battery storage, hydrogen and other projects.
The funding is intended to be for training facilities already at capacity, preventing people from entering apprenticeships, and for regional communities at the coalface of the energy transition.
In budget papers from last year, money had been allocated over five years from 2023-24.
But even the eligibility guidelines for that funding are yet to be released, and there are no listings on the government's grants website.
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