Homegrown green fuel for a secure energy future

Reliable, affordable green fuel and 24/7 carbon-free energy — produced domestically, at commercial scale

We are making domestic biomethanol and carbon-free baseload a commercial reality in Australia.

Sunshine Hydro creates value for communities, investors and offtakers alike by:

Turning green waste into biomethanol and biochar
Converting wind and solar into 24/7 carbon-free energy
Delivering bankable long-term revenue streams for investors
Using proprietary technology to provide supply certainty and price stability that fossil fuel alternatives simply can’t match

Domestic energy security is achievable, and we’re proving it.

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

When the Tankers Don’t Come: Fuel Security and the Case for Domestic Biomethanol

Australia imports the overwhelming majority of its refined liquid fuels. We consume in the order of 50 billion litres of petroleum products annually. Our domestic stockholding sits at roughly 20 to 28 days of supply — well below the 90-day reserve obligation we committed to as a member of the International Energy Agency. We have been in technical breach of that commitment for over a decade.

Pumped hydro is vital to the future grid. So why does gas exploration get all the tax benefits?

If offshore gas exploration qualifies for grossed-up deductions and uplifted carry-forward because it is nationally important and risky, long-duration storage should receive the same treatment given its role as critical infrastructure in a decarbonised grid.

Djandori pumped hydro pitches coal-scale replacement for central Queensland

With Snowy2 overruns still casting long shadows, Djandori is shaping as a test of whether pumped hydro can regain investor confidence — and move faster — in Australia’s next phase of the energy transition.

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.