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.
Wind Power I spent a morning last month going through the development application file for a tablelands wind project west of Glen Innes, the kind of paperwork nobody reads at a community…
Drive south from Bunbury on the Coalfields Highway and you hit Collie before you've finished your coffee: a…
Drive the Jones Hill Road turnoff west of Imbil in the Sunshine Coast hinterland and you'll hit the…
South Australia ran for stretches last decade on almost nothing but inverter-based generation, and more than once the…
Four units, roughly 1,480 megawatts, and a date that's been sitting on EnergyAustralia's books since 2021: 2028. That's…
Mary Valley Road out of Gympie still runs past dairy country before it climbs toward the Borumba Dam…
Drive two hours south of Perth down the Forrest Highway and you'll pass transmission towers carrying power that,…
Walk a standard ground-mount solar farm under construction and you'll see crews on their knees for weeks, torquing…
Every solar cell made today carries a little sliver of silver screen-printed across its front and back, the…
Pulled into the Ampol at Pheasants Nest on the Hume a few months back, mid-afternoon, and counted four…
Just after 12:30pm on a clear Saturday in late October, operational demand on the South Australian grid dipped…
Walk a standard ground-mount solar farm under construction and you'll see crews on their knees for weeks, torquing…
Every solar cell made today carries a little sliver of silver screen-printed across its front and back, the…
850 megawatts of power, 1,680 megawatt-hours of energy, sitting on a former coal ash site at Munmorah on…
Drive south from Bunbury on the Coalfields Highway and you hit Collie before you've finished your coffee: a…
Drive the Jones Hill Road turnoff west of Imbil in the Sunshine Coast hinterland and you'll hit the…
Eight. That's how many coal units have left the NEM since 2022 across NSW, Victoria and South Australia,…
Four coal units gone from the NSW grid since Liddell shut in 2023, and Eraring's exit still pencilled…
Two hours. That's the median storage duration AEMO's own battery fleet data has hovered around for most of…
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.
