Energy Supply Australia is an independent publication about the Australian energy system — the grid, the market, and the companies driving the transition. We cover power, wind, solar, nuclear, gas and storage the way people inside the industry actually talk about them: with the numbers left in, the jargon taken out, and no press releases dressed up as news. If it changes how the country makes, moves or pays for energy, we’re writing about it.
Policy & Markets 82 per cent. That's the renewable share South Australia's grid has been running at on an annual basis for a while now, and it sits there as the awkward benchmark…

I had a client in Reservoir last month pull out a quote with a 14-year payback on a…

Pulled into a Chargefox site off the Hume Highway near Yass a few weeks back, I watched a…

1,100 kilometres. That's roughly the length of 275kV transmission line Powerlink now has to build between Townsville and…

The Hornsdale Power Reserve sits off the Barrier Highway near Jamestown, a few rows of grey Tesla containers…

Kerang's saleyards aren't far from where AusNet wants to run a 500kV double-circuit line across some of the…

Drive the Lyell Highway out past Derwent Bridge and you're in Hydro Tasmania's back yard, a chain of…

Drive the gravel road into the old Kidston gold mine in north Queensland and you come over a…

Moomba's carbon capture plant injected its millionth tonne of CO2 sometime around the middle of this year, give…

The Hornsdale Power Reserve sits off the Barrier Highway near Jamestown, a few rows of grey Tesla containers…

I had a client in Reservoir last month pull out a quote with a 14-year payback on a…

Last month I sat at a kitchen table in Blackburn with a couple who'd just been quoted $4,200…

A standard 1MW ground-mount array takes a crew of six roughly two to three weeks to rack, wire…

Drive the gravel road into the old Kidston gold mine in north Queensland and you come over a…

A retailer rang a Blackburn North customer at 4.40pm on a stinking hot Tuesday in late January this…

1,100 kilometres. That's roughly the length of 275kV transmission line Powerlink now has to build between Townsville and…

82 per cent. That's the renewable share South Australia's grid has been running at on an annual basis…

Past $12 billion. That's the number Snowy Hydro's owner, the Commonwealth, has to make peace with before anyone…

Four coal units at Eraring, two at Bayswater, two more at Vales Point. That's roughly 8,000 megawatts of…
Energy Supply Australia is written by a small team that covers the grid, the market and the companies building the transition. No wire copy, no press releases dressed up as news.