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 There's no button in Perth marked 'call for help.' If a generator trips on the South West Interconnected System on a stinking February afternoon, there's no interconnector to lean on,…
Santos paid a dividend again this year off Cooper Basin and Moomba gas that most of the transition…
Two thousand megawatt-hours. That's roughly what Genex Power's Kidston pumped hydro scheme, built into an old gold mine…
Drive the Golden Highway out past Dunedoo on a quiet Sunday and you'll see the survey pegs before…
1 July. That's the date the Default Market Offer resets every year, whether anyone notices or not. Most…
Six-fifteen on a still, hot evening in late January. Rooftop solar has fallen off a cliff, air conditioners…
32 gigawatts. That's the number the Commonwealth put on the table when it expanded the Capacity Investment Scheme,…
Two Powerwalls hung dark on the garage wall of a townhouse off Sherriffs Road in Reynella last month,…
Two numbers to start. Zero: the count of turbines, cells or transformers actually energised at Zen Energy's flagship…
Pulled into an Ampol on the Hume Highway just south of Yass a few weeks back, mid road…
Two Powerwalls hung dark on the garage wall of a townhouse off Sherriffs Road in Reynella last month,…
A homeowner in Reservoir rang me last month with a quote in hand: 10kW of rooftop solar plus…
Check your solar retailer's rate card right now and you'll probably see two numbers that don't look like…
There's no button in Perth marked 'call for help.' If a generator trips on the South West Interconnected…
Somewhere under the Snowy Mountains right now, a tunnel boring machine named Florence is grinding through rock that…
Two thousand megawatt-hours. That's roughly what Genex Power's Kidston pumped hydro scheme, built into an old gold mine…
Twenty-four gigawatts. That's roughly where Australia's rooftop solar fleet sits now, spread across more than four million homes…
215 facilities. That's the current population of the Safeguard Mechanism, the scheme that's supposed to be the sharp…
Santos paid a dividend again this year off Cooper Basin and Moomba gas that most of the transition…
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.
