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.
Wind Power Forty-two months. That's roughly how long it took a mid-sized onshore wind farm in the New England Renewable Energy Zone to go from notice of intent to first synchronisation, according…
Stand on the breakwater at Port Kembla on a clear morning and you can just about picture it:…
Two hundred milliseconds. That's roughly how long a weak part of the grid has to arrest a fault…
I spent a wet Tuesday last month at a community consultation session in the Hunter, where a council…
Four gigawatts. That's roughly the scheduled coal capacity due to leave the NEM between now and 2030 across…
82 per cent. That's the renewable share South Australia's grid has been running at on an annual basis…
Drive the gravel road into the old Kidston gold mine in north Queensland and you come over a…
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…
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…
Perth recorded an operational minimum demand on its grid last spring that would have been unthinkable a decade…
Two hundred milliseconds. That's roughly how long a weak part of the grid has to arrest a fault…
I spent a wet Tuesday last month at a community consultation session in the Hunter, where a council…
215 facilities. That's roughly how many industrial sites now sit under the Safeguard Mechanism's baseline-and-credit system, covering a…
Four gigawatts. That's roughly the scheduled coal capacity due to leave the NEM between now and 2030 across…
82 per cent. That's the renewable share South Australia's grid has been running at on an annual basis…
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.
