30/07/2026
Australia connected a record 9.1GW of new generation and storage in FY26. More than double the year before.
The number buried further down the same AEMO scorecard is the one worth reading twice.
Median time in the proponent implementation stage rose from 14 months to 18 months. A third of projects have now sat in that stage for more than two years.
That stage is not controlled by the regulator. It is controlled by the developer. AEMO points to design changes, equipment substitutions, project sales and extended financing as the main causes.
So the pipeline is not short of ambition. It now sits at 75.4GW, up 42% in a year, with batteries making up 52% of it. What it is short of is projects that were developed properly the first time.
At G8 Energy, that is the whole reason we exist. We work at the front end: securing well-located sites in regional Australia, negotiating land agreements, and progressing planning and grid approvals before a project ever reaches an investment committee. The result is a Ready-to-Build asset with the risk already taken out of it, not a set of assumptions someone else has to test.
Fewer redesigns. Fewer resubmissions. Faster to energisation.
If you are an investor, utility or landowner looking at development-stage storage in the NEM, we would like to talk.
