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.
Solar Power A homeowner in Reservoir rang me last month with a quote in hand: 10kW of rooftop solar plus a 10kWh battery, bundled, $19,000 after rebates, five-year payback promised on the…
Two hundred and twenty-eight turbines. That's the figure BlueFloat Energy has floated for its Illawarra project off Wollongong,…
Eraring was supposed to be gone by now. It isn't, and the fact that it isn't tells you…
Two hundred and eighty-eight times a day, in every region of the National Electricity Market, a piece of…
The short version is this: the southern states are still short of gas from around the middle of…
Around 1pm on a clear day last week, the wholesale price in South Australia dropped to minus $60…
The short version is this: nobody serious disputes that a firmed renewables grid is cheaper to build over…
Pulled into an Ampol on the Hume Highway just south of Yass a few weeks back, mid road…
Drive the New England Highway south out of Uralla on a clear afternoon and you'll see it before…
The short version: Santos runs one of the biggest carbon capture projects on the planet in a paddock…
A homeowner in Reservoir rang me last month with a quote in hand: 10kW of rooftop solar plus…
Check your solar retailer's rate card right now and you'll probably see two numbers that don't look like…
Around 1pm on a clear day last week, the wholesale price in South Australia dropped to minus $60…
Drive along the Hume Highway between Yass and Wagga and you'll pass under a line of steel towers…
On a mild, windy afternoon in late spring, South Australia's grid can run for hours on nothing but…
Snowy 2.0 has been under construction since tunnelling began in earnest in 2021, and five years on, Australians…
Two hundred and eighty-eight times a day, in every region of the National Electricity Market, a piece of…
Victoria wants 95 per cent renewable electricity by 2035. Tasmania is already past 100 per cent and chasing…
Roughly 1.1 million customers. A coal station that was supposed to close years ago. A Hong Kong billionaire…
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.
