Genex Power under J-Power: what the Kidston bet looks like now
Drive the gravel road into the old Kidston gold mine in north Queensland and you come over a rise to find two enormous water-filled pits looking at each other across about 700 metres of ridge. That gap, and the roughly 220-metre fall between the upper and lower pit, is the entire engineering premise behind Genex […]
Santos at the centre of the east-coast gas standoff
Moomba’s carbon capture plant injected its millionth tonne of CO2 sometime around the middle of this year, give or take, depending on which Santos investor update you’re reading. Nobody rang a bell. It’s a flow-through number in a quarterly, not a headline, and that tells you something about how this company actually operates versus how […]
Neoen Australia: the battery pioneer now building wind at scale
The Hornsdale Power Reserve sits off the Barrier Highway near Jamestown, a few rows of grey Tesla containers behind a chain-link fence that most drivers between Adelaide and Broken Hill wouldn’t give a second look. It doesn’t need to be dramatic. That paddock-adjacent battery has been quietly doing more to shape how the National Electricity […]
EnergyAustralia: the gentailer counting down to Yallourn’s exit
1,480 megawatts. That’s the hole in Victoria’s supply that opens up when Yallourn shuts in mid-2028, and it’s EnergyAustralia’s problem more than anyone else’s, because EnergyAustralia owns the plant. The company has known the date for years. It locked it in publicly back in 2021, trading an earlier flagged closure for a firmer, later one, […]
Iberdrola Australia: the Spanish major building quietly
Drive the Augusta Highway north out of Port Augusta and you pass the old Northern and Playford power station sites before you even get to the turbines. That’s not incidental. Iberdrola Australia’s Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park sits on ground that used to burn South Australian brown coal, and the company has been happy enough […]
Akaysha Energy: the battery developer with no retail brand
Ask most households in New South Wales who Akaysha Energy is and you’ll get a blank look. There’s no logo on a bill, no call centre, no retail tariff to compare on a comparison site. Yet drive the backroads near Wallerawang, or follow the transmission easement south of Gunnedah towards the Orana REZ, and you’re […]
5B’s Maverick panels: prefab solar leaves the roof behind
A standard 1MW ground-mount array takes a crew of six roughly two to three weeks to rack, wire and commission, assuming the ground’s cooperative and the weather is too. 5B says its Maverick system does the same job in two to three days, with a smaller crew and a fraction of the concrete. That’s not […]
Tilt Renewables: the super-fund wind book, turbine by turbine
Rye Park’s turbines are visible from the Hume Highway now, strung along the ridgeline between Yass and Boorowa, and that’s the thing about Tilt Renewables: it’s one of the few wind developers in this country where you can actually stand on a public road and count the finished product rather than squint at a render. […]
Tesla Energy Australia: Powerwall, Megapack and the SA VPP now
Two Powerwalls hung dark on the garage wall of a townhouse off Sherriffs Road in Reynella last month, and the owner couldn’t work out why his app had gone quiet. Nothing dramatic, as it turned out: a firmware push had knocked the gateway offline for a day. But it’s a decent way into the state […]
Zen Energy Australia: the retailer standing in Whyalla’s shadow
Two numbers to start. Zero: the count of turbines, cells or transformers actually energised at Zen Energy’s flagship Templers battery site in South Australia’s mid-north, more than four years after the project first cleared planning. And somewhere north of a thousand: the number of jobs at a steelworks 400 kilometres away that the South Australian […]