I started Spinifex Energy after a half a decade of working across rural Queensland and the Northern Territory helping property owners take their cattle stations, feedlots and cropping properties to market for a fair price.

You could say agriculture was in blood, so the job made good sense. I grew up on one of the biggest cattle stations in the world – Newcastle Waters in the Northern Territory.

Watching my family manage over 10,000 square kilometres of agricultural land, I learned how important reliable and affordable energy is. Without power from a grid, we had to be self-sufficient and relied on generators to power everything. Not surprisingly, most of my childhood memories seem to have a Kubota generator droning away in the background!

In my travels I noticed there were big changes coming: stations were starting to look at replacing expensive diesel-powered machinery with solar power systems powered by panels. Their managers were struggling to rationalise financing and maintaining their investment and managing to getting a positive return on their spend. They needed someone they could trust, someone who knew what they were trying to do, to advise them.

A curious tinkerer from way back, I realised I was the perfect person for the job. So in mid-2018 I set up Spinifex Energy.