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 I had a client in Reservoir last month pull out a quote with a 14-year payback on a 10kWh battery, printed in the same friendly sans-serif font as the 6-year…
Drive the Lyell Highway out past Derwent Bridge and you're in Hydro Tasmania's back yard, a chain of…
Four coal units at Eraring, two at Bayswater, two more at Vales Point. That's roughly 8,000 megawatts of…
850 megawatts of power, 1,680 megawatt-hours of energy, sitting on a former coal ash site at Munmorah on…
$2.4 billion. That's roughly what Queensland's state-owned Stanwell and CleanCo have between them committed to pumped hydro and…
1,480 megawatts. That's the hole in Victoria's supply that opens up when Yallourn shuts in mid-2028, and it's…
Pull up the AEMO Integrated System Plan and the first thing you notice is that almost nobody who…
The Hornsdale Power Reserve sits off the Barrier Highway near Jamestown, a few rows of grey Tesla containers…
1,480 megawatts. That's the hole in Victoria's supply that opens up when Yallourn shuts in mid-2028, and it's…
Drive the Augusta Highway north out of Port Augusta and you pass the old Northern and Playford power…
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…
1,100 kilometres. That's roughly the length of 275kV transmission line Powerlink now has to build between Townsville and…
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…
Four coal units at Eraring, two at Bayswater, two more at Vales Point. That's roughly 8,000 megawatts of…
$2.4 billion. That's roughly what Queensland's state-owned Stanwell and CleanCo have between them committed to pumped hydro and…
1,480 megawatts. That's the hole in Victoria's supply that opens up when Yallourn shuts in mid-2028, and it's…
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.
