{
  "id": 2264908,
  "title": "Lack of transparency is the Capacity Investment Scheme’s biggest flaw",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/lack-of-transparency-is-the-capacity-investment-schemes-biggest-flaw",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-21T01:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08/lack-of-transparency-is-the-capacity-investment-schemes-biggest-flaw/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) was meant to accelerate wind, solar and battery investment by using taxpayer subsidies to underwrite revenue. Instead, only 14 of 89 supported projects have reached final investment decision (FID), and only one wind project has begun construction. Investors have also warned that more than half of early‑round winners might never The post Lack of transparency is…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}