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 Just over 90 per cent. That's roughly the share of Tasmania's electricity that comes out of Hydro Tasmania's own fleet in an average year, across the 30-odd power stations strung…
A bloke I know in Castlemaine bought a Nissan Leaf last year specifically so he could run his…
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…
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…
Stand at the fence line of a gas peaker on a still winter evening around 6pm and you'll…
Pulled into the Ampol at Pheasants Nest on the Hume a few months back, mid-afternoon, and counted four…
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…
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…
Just over 90 per cent. That's roughly the share of Tasmania's electricity that comes out of Hydro Tasmania's…
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…
Two hours. That's the median storage duration AEMO's own battery fleet data has hovered around for most of…
Around 10 per cent of residential customers on the east coast sit on the Default Market Offer, and…
Four coal units. That's what NSW has taken out of the grid since Liddell shut in 2023, with…
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.
