Power is coming.
The next generation of industry needs enormous power. So do the communities around it. We're building the network that makes abundance possible.
Australia's first modular HVDC transmission network.
Why
Australia has the energy. It's throwing it away.
Australia generates more renewable energy every year than the grid can move. Conventional fixes are stuck. New transmission megaprojects run two to three times over budget and decades behind schedule. The bottleneck is custom hardware. High-voltage transformers with multi-year global lead times. Converters that take a decade to commission. Until that changes, renewables get built ahead of the grid that's meant to move them.
7.2 TWh
Renewable energy wasted in 2025
Around $1 billion of electricity, generated then thrown away because the grid can't carry it.
48%
SA price intervals at zero or below
Nearly half the time, South Australian power prices are negative. The energy exists. There's nowhere for it to go.
38%
SA solar curtailed
More than a third of South Australia's utility-scale solar was curtailed in 2025. Built, paid for, switched off.
56.6 GW
In the connection queue
275 projects approved and waiting for grid connection. Enough to power Australia twice over. Stuck.
How
One network. Tap it anywhere.
Today's grids are a maze of high-voltage transformers, distribution lines, and custom substations. Every piece on its own schedule, every project a one-off.
The Ansible network replaces that with one HVDC backbone and modular on-ramps you stack to size. A few modules tap power for a tower. Hundreds tap power for a town or a mine. Thousands form a full Grid Port substation. Same module, just more of them.
Every on-ramp is also a converter on the line. Power and data, tapped anywhere along the corridor.
Tower scale
1 kW
Per module. Sips power off the line to run sensors, fibre, and the local battery.
~110 modules
per Smart Tower
Distribution scale
~1 MW
Uprated tap into a mine, town, or industrial site mid-corridor.
~1,000 modules
per Distributed Grid Interface
Grid scale
200 MW+
Full substation. Phased to 1,800 MW using identical factory-tested modules.
~4,620 modules
per Level 1 Grid Port
Why now
Five years ago, the parts didn't add up.
Now they do. Four costs collapsed, and ±525 kV is settling in as the working voltage.
$5 to $120
per power chip
EV supply chain. Mass-produced, multiple vendors, no bespoke parts.
~$30/MWh
solar, down from $350
Australia generates more power than it can transmit. Transmission is the bottleneck.
~$140/kWh
battery, down from $1,100
Grid-scale storage is now cheap enough to finance. Every tower carries its own battery.
±525 kV
HVDC voltage proven
Global projects have proven the voltage. Our innovation is the converter that taps anywhere.
What: Smart Tower
A new transmission tower. Sensors built in.
Forty-five metres of folded steel, half the weight of a conventional tower, no concrete, no aviation lights. Stood up in days by a small crew, removable when the time comes.
Standard on every tower: weather station, fire camera, fibre node, sub-nanosecond timing, two-way power tap, and a 200 kWh battery. Sensors come with the corridor.
200 kWh
battery per tower
96-core
fibre per tower
20+
sensor types
2 to 3 days
to install per tower
What: Grid Port
Built modular. Scaled in stages. Connect anywhere.
A Grid Port is a substation made from the same modules as the tower. Just more of them. Start at 200 MW. Scale to 1,800 MW as demand arrives, using identical factory-tested racks. No bespoke engineering. No decade-long build cycles.
Place one anywhere along the corridor. Drop a 200 MW Port mid-route to serve a mine, a hydrogen facility, a town, or a data centre, without re-routing the line.
Because the system is DC end-to-end, Grid Ports plug into high-power loads without conversion losses. The customer base is moving to DC anyway. Hyperscale data centres, electric arc steel, electrolysers for green hydrogen. All attach directly and save the ~10% that conventional substations burn turning AC back into DC.
Grid Ports go where the load is. Increasingly, the load is a data centre.
The investment
Hard infrastructure. Three revenue streams.
One physical asset. Three independent ways it earns. The transmission carries the loads. The platform makes the asset bankable.
Stream 1
Power
Transit revenue from long-life HVDC carriage. Every tower carries a battery, so the asset also earns the daily price spread along its full length. In South Australia, that spread has averaged around $188/MWh through 2025.
Stream 2
Data
Sensors, fibre, and sub-nanosecond timing on every tower. Sold as products to:
- · Mining: geology and groundwater
- · Defence: persistent monitoring and timing
- · Agriculture: paddock-resolution weather
- · Aviation: corridor-wide tracking
- · Emergency services: pre-smoke fire detection
- · Research: continental-scale earth science
Stream 3
Real estate
Greenfield sites with grid-scale power, ready to lease. Anchor tenants plug in directly at a Grid Port without bespoke interconnection or years of permitting:
- · Data centres: DC-native, no AC-DC conversion loss
- · Refining: high-power industrial loads
- · Science: giant lasers, telescopes, particle facilities
The first network
We're working with partners on the first path. Pin where you need power.
The first network is planned as a state-connecting spine. It links renewable energy zones across South Australia into Port Augusta, Adelaide, and the grid connection points that can move power where it's needed. Click anywhere on the map below to mark a site of interest.
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