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Power generation in Australia_

As of 4 November 2026, 286 power generation companies are based in Australia; 9 are hiring right now and Haymarket has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
286
Hiring now
9 · 5 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Renewable energy project developers · 190
Top city
Haymarket · 20
Parent market
Utilities & infrastructure · 2,418
286power generation companies in Australia
9hiring today
5opened a role in the last 30 days
17niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Power generation in Australia, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Renewable energy project developers
19066%
Other power generation
7426%
Wind farm operators
5017%
Bioenergy plant operators
207%
Other energy asset services
135%
Renewable power generation operators
72%
Solar park operators
72%
Energy service companies & contracting
62%
Hydropower operators
62%
Oil & gas exploration production
62%
Waste treatment & disposal facilities
52%
Community energy cooperatives
41%
Conventional & nuclear power generators
41%
Energy trading & wholesale marketers
31%
Energy retail suppliers
21%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
43 · 0
2-10 employees
145 · 2
11-50 employees
67 · 0
51-200 employees
15 · 1
201-500 employees
10 · 3
501-1000 employees
4 · 2
1001-5000 employees
2 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Haymarket
207%
Melbourne
197%
Perth
186%
Petrie Terrace
103%
Canberra
72%
West Perth
72%
Adelaide Bc
52%
Fortitude Valley
41%
North Sydney
41%
Brisbane
31%
City
31%
Fitzroy
31%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest power generation companies in Australia

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

286 power generation companies in Australia.

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04 — What they run

The stack of power generation in Australia

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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286 power generation companies are based in Australia; 9 are hiring right now and Haymarket has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/australia/power_generation)
How we know

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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
FAQ

Power generation in Australia: questions

How many power generation companies are there in Australia?

286 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Utilities & infrastructure → Power generation → leaf niches such as renewable energy project developers, other power generation, wind farm operators. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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