Like most countries the conservative parties fight tooth and nail to stop any sort of renewable power or electrification and Australia had its own glut of Red hat morons over the last 16 or so years.
Yes. And despite that, one in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar.
Renewables supplied over half the national grid in Q4 2025, with roughly 7 GW of new capacity added that year alone. Nearly 200,000 home batteries were installed in the second half of 2025.
One in three new vehicles sold now has some form of electrification, with hybrids leading the shift and petrol sales dropping 10% last year.
Even heavy industry is moving. Australia already operates the world’s largest fully driverless freight rail network - Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs 1,700km of heavy-haul trains across the Pilbara, controlled remotely from Perth, straight from the mine to the deep-water port at Cape Lambert.
Battery-electric locomotives are now in trial on those same lines.
Electrification is happening at every scale here - rooftop, road, and rail - often despite the politics, not because of it.
Like most countries the conservative parties fight tooth and nail to stop any sort of renewable power or electrification and Australia had its own glut of Red hat morons over the last 16 or so years.
Yes. And despite that, one in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar.
Renewables supplied over half the national grid in Q4 2025, with roughly 7 GW of new capacity added that year alone. Nearly 200,000 home batteries were installed in the second half of 2025.
One in three new vehicles sold now has some form of electrification, with hybrids leading the shift and petrol sales dropping 10% last year.
Even heavy industry is moving. Australia already operates the world’s largest fully driverless freight rail network - Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs 1,700km of heavy-haul trains across the Pilbara, controlled remotely from Perth, straight from the mine to the deep-water port at Cape Lambert.
Battery-electric locomotives are now in trial on those same lines. Electrification is happening at every scale here - rooftop, road, and rail - often despite the politics, not because of it.