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.
Grid & Storage 250 megawatts of generating capacity, six to eight hours of storage, sitting inside two worked-out gold pits a couple of hours west of Cairns. That's the headline spec for Kidston…
$12.7 billion. That's the revised cost estimate AEMO's latest Integrated System Plan attaches to the committed and anticipated…
Drive the Glenelg Highway west of Ballarat and the turbines at Stockyard Hill start appearing on the horizon…
Drive the Yabba Creek Road out past Imbil and you hit a construction zone that doesn't look like…
A few years back I sat through a pitch deck in a Fremantle boardroom that had hydrogen doing…
AEMO's reliability forecasts have a habit of reading like actuarial tables written by someone who'd rather not be…
$16,600 a megawatt-hour, then minus $57 a megawatt-hour, inside the same trading day. That's not a glitch in…
Drive the Glenelg Highway west of Ballarat and the turbines at Stockyard Hill start appearing on the horizon…
Around 4,600 megawatts. That's roughly the combined nameplate of Loy Yang A and Bayswater, the two coal stations…
First cargo from Scarborough is pencilled in for 2026, and depending on which investor call you caught this…
Three export limit changes in four years on the same switchboard. That's what a client in Pascoe Vale…
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…
250 megawatts of generating capacity, six to eight hours of storage, sitting inside two worked-out gold pits a…
Drive the Murray Valley Highway between Kerang and Swan Hill and you'll pass more "No Transmission" signs than…
Drive the Yabba Creek Road out past Imbil and you hit a construction zone that doesn't look like…
Four coal units. That's what NSW has taken out of the grid since Liddell shut in 2023, with…
$36 billion. That's roughly the figure sitting against Queensland's state-owned pumped hydro and transmission build when you add…
$12.7 billion. That's the revised cost estimate AEMO's latest Integrated System Plan attaches to the committed and anticipated…
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.
