Energy Supply Australia is written by a small desk, not a content farm. Each of us owns a beat and writes under our own name. We’re based around the country — Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney — which is deliberate: the energy story looks different depending on which grid, which market and which weather you’re standing in.
Marcus Wren
Marcus edits Energy Supply Australia. He has spent about fifteen years covering utilities, the National Electricity Market and the companies that trade in it, first in print and then online. He is happiest with a spreadsheet of dispatch data open and a Test match on in the background, and he will argue that the most interesting story in energy is almost always a balance sheet.
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Priya Nair
Priya covers rooftop solar, home batteries and distributed energy for Energy Supply Australia. She worked on the tools for a Brisbane solar installer before she started writing, so she tends to look at a rebate the way a sparky looks at a switchboard. She keeps a stubborn veggie patch and has killed more succulents than she will admit.
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Callum Hayes
Callum is our wind and offshore correspondent, based in Newcastle. He came to energy from regional planning reporting, which means he reads a development application for fun and is hard to impress with a render of turbines on a brochure. Most mornings he is in the water before work, ocean swim or surf-ski, weather permitting.
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Anjali Rao
Anjali writes about the grid, transmission and big batteries. An electrical engineer by training, she spent years in power-system planning before moving into journalism, and she has a low tolerance for a headline that confuses power with energy. She plays club chess, rides absurd distances on weekends and is the person on the desk most likely to say let us be careful with that number.
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Tom Fitzgerald
Tom covers coal, gas and the nuclear debate from Perth. He has been reporting on the fuels that still run the grid since before it was fashionable to write their obituaries, and he is allergic to hype in either direction. He is an amateur astronomer, brews a passable cider, and thinks most energy arguments improve if everyone agrees on the units first.
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Sofia Marchetti
Sofia reports on electric vehicles, charging and the slow electrification of the way we get around. She approaches it as a driver first and a reporter second, which keeps the copy honest about range anxiety and cold-morning charging. She restores old steel-framed bicycles and plans road trips she does not always take.
Read Sofia’s articles →Between us we try to keep one rule: explain it the way you’d explain it to a smart friend who doesn’t work in energy. If a sentence needs a glossary, it needs a rewrite. Got a tip or think we’ve missed something? Tell us.