Renew Economy
Summary
Australia has always been defined by its surface extremes. The country builds cities in hot coastal belts and then complains about the cost of keeping them cool.
Every summer the same pattern repeats itself. Air conditioners hum across Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, grid peaks rise, and operators scramble to cover the load.
Yet just a few dozen metres below the pavement lies an energy resource that stays steady year-round.
Australia’s emerging conversation about geothermal heating and cooling sits squarely within the frame established by Beyond the Hype: Geothermal in Context, the 2025 report I published through TFIE Strategy Inc.
That report separated what actually works in geothermal from what only looks good on slides. It concluded that the real opportunity lies not in chasing ultra-deep, high-enthalpy wells or speculative enhanced geothermal systems, but in the practical and scalable domain of heat: district heating, aquifer thermal energy storage, and low-to-medium temperature geothermal paired with heat pumps.
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