Energy in Western Australia

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Western Australia, like other Australian states and high-income countries, is a heavy energy user by global standards.

The most distinctive features of Western Australia's energy systems are the massive export of natural gas, its independence from the interconnected cross-state gas and electricity networks in eastern Australia, and the presence of two separate large-scale grids and many microgrids to provide power for the sparsely populated state.