On the map: A state-by-state guide to all operating generators on the NEM

Where is that wind and solar farm that we keep on hearing about? Where is that big battery?

Australia talks a lot about its electricity grid and the shift from fossil fuels to renewables, but the reality is that few people actually know where projects are located – apart from those who live close to them or see them as drive past.

This set of maps was published recently in the Australian Energy Regulator’s State of the Energy Market report, and we thought it would be a useful ready reference for those people wondering where exactly stuff has been built.

Such is the pace of change on the grid that it is already out of date – it does not include the Torrens Island big battery, for instance, in South Australia, and we can’t see the Wallgrove battery in NSW.

It ostensibly includes only completed projects, but we now learn that the Capital battery in Canberra won’t be commissioned until next year.

Still, it is a useful reference. For those wanting to learn more about locations of projects in the pipeline, you can also check out RenewEconomy’s own online maps for battery storage (including all proposed and committed projects), as well as onshore wind, offshore wind and large scale solar.

You can click on each of the maps to enlarge them.