Designed to complement and compound

 Two networks — renewable diesel/SAF and biogas — each with its own replication logic, both anchored in Esperance and designed to be replicated at multiple regional sites. This is not how most renewable fuel projects are structured — and that difference is deliberate. 

The conventional playbook for renewable fuel at scale is to build one very large facility at a coastal port — aggregate feedstock from a wide catchment, achieve economies of scale on capital cost per litre, and sell into export markets. It is a model borrowed from petroleum refining, and it carries the same vulnerabilities: single point of failure, long supply chains, extreme concentration of permitting and construction risk, and a carbon intensity profile that suffers every kilometre feedstock travels before conversion.

Australia's feedstocks are distributed across the grain belt. The infrastructure should match the geography — not fight it.

The Australis model starts from a different premise. WA's canola and cereal straw are grown across hundreds of farming districts, not concentrated at a single location. Building one large facility to receive all of that feedstock means building long haulage chains into a business that depends on low logistics cost. Building smaller facilities inside the feedstock catchment eliminates that cost — and captures the same operating scale benefits through central management of a network, not concentration of risk at a single site.

 Renewable Diesel & Sustainable Aviation Fuel

A centrally managed network of HEFA facilities targeting 200 MLpa — each producing renewable diesel and SAF from locally-sourced canola, each building on the last.

– 30–60 MLpa per facility 

— site-determined, right-sized, replicable

– Drop-in fuels 

— no modification required by road, mining, or aviation users

– Central operations team manages the full network — shared SCADA, standards, spare parts

– 80% common engineering — capex and opex improve with every site built

– Carbon intensity approximately 18–22 gCO₂e/MJ — structurally lower than alternatives

WA canola seed · Within 50 km · Long-term farm agreements