Carbon-free baseload that's not nuclear

Innovation for reliable and affordable 24/7 carbon-free energy and green fuels

Superhybrid™ is a novel way to contract and optimise green energy assets, with a remarkable advantage

We can add value to your business:

make your renewable portfolio dispatchable
create new revenue for your pumped hydro
make your flow battery project bankable
make your electrolyser project bankable
turn wind and solar into 24/7 carbon-free energy
turn waste energy and biomass into green fuels

A fully decarbonised energy and transport sector is both technically proven and commercially viable.

Get in touch and we’ll show you how!

Four pillars

Technology

Sunshine Hydro’s Proprietary AESOP technology is the cornerstone that enables seamless and efficient operation of our Superhybrid™ energy systems. It uses historic, live and forecast data to determine the best use of each renewable electron for each 5-minute period.

Environment

We are deeply committed to protecting and enhancing biodiversity while decarbonising. We work with specialist conservation groups and First Nations people to map out environmental conservation programs for our project sites.

Community

We seek to create tangible benefits for the local communities and First Nations people of our project sites. We walk the talk by offering agency in our projects through shareholding, employment and revenue sharing.

Economics

Key to the Superhybrid™ financial advantage is combining long-term contracted revenue (10 years+) with capturing arbitrage and trading opportunities. This means bankability for greenfield projects and significant profitability boosts for existing long-duration energy storage assets.

Our vision is a fully decarbonised energy and transport sector that serves all of us in harmony with nature and First Nations people.

How we create value

Our projects

We have a portfolio of more than 70 projects at different levels of development. Each is designed around the Superhybrid™ business model or as a stand-alone green fuel production facility with a prospect of a future merger into a Superhybrid project.

As developers we are progressively moving these projects through design, planning approval, pre-FEED, FEED and financial modelling. In parallel we are establishing power purchase agreements for the renewable wind and solar input and off-take agreements for the energy and green fuel outputs. We strategically sell down our share of the projects to release capital to developing further projects.

Our partners

Global decarbonisation is urgent. We will do everything in our power to accelerate it. This includes offering advisory services to ‘superhybridise’ third-party projects and existing long-duration energy storage assets, as well as licensing AESOP software for the operations phase.

This can be done by setting up a ‘digital twin’ of the asset ecosystem and simulating its performance using Superhybrid™ principles. We gain credible results by using historical data. This means we don’t use ‘perfect foresight’. We can also observe how the assets would operate in real time.

Our latest blogs

Comparing carbon-free baseload to carbon-free baseload

The nuclear debate here in Australia lacks fair comparison to other competing technologies. It includes figures that are not applicable in the Australian context and omissions, including fair comparisons with alternative technologies. To address some of these issues, Sunshine Hydro developed the following submission to the ‘Inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia’. We were pleased to present our position at one of the live hearings and to be quoted in the Courier Mail last weekend.

The hippie who couldn’t say “impossible”

Today is 18 September 2024 and that’s an important date for Sunshine Hydro. Today, I and the team at Sunshine Hydro will remember my first visit to Wivenhoe Power Station ten years ago with gratitude, and celebrate the many ways we have made the impossible possible.

Our response to the proposed Clean Hydrogen Rules

Following the announcement of $2/kg Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive (HPTI), the Treasury ran a public consultation about the scheme. As often is the case, the devil is in the detail and the careful planning of this subsidy is paramount to avoid unintended adverse consequences to the Australian energy transition and leakage of subsidies outside of Australian borders.

Sunshine Hydro acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.