Australia has 486 power plants in this atlas, with 65,852 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Bayswater (2,640 MW, coal; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are gas, hydro and solar. Grid operators listed here include AEMO. Electricity is regulated by AER and AEMC. Renewables supplied 35.1% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Australia
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
Coal still supplies about half of power, but rooftop solar, utility solar and wind are growing quickly. The NEM is a real-time spot market; households choose a retailer.
Eastern and southern Australia share the National Electricity Market, a single wholesale spot market run by AEMO; Western Australia and the Northern Territory run separate systems.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
The NEM does not include Western Australia or the Northern Territory. AEMO runs the WEM in Western Australia's South West Interconnected System. Regional network owners and isolated systems are additional organisations.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Australia is in Australia and New Zealand. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.
Capital
Canberra
Languages
English
Region
Australia and New Zealand
Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 486 records for Australia. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
486 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 486 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
