Dr Sarah Lawley

👋 Meet Dr Sarah Lawley!

Dr Sarah Lawley is a physicist and energy professional with over 20 years of experience across Australia’s resources, mining, and electricity sectors. She specialises in energy risk management, energy trading and procurement, strategic energy infrastructure planning, including for high-growth industrial loads such as data centres. With a background including government, mining, energy retail, and consulting, she currently provides advisory services to government bodies, corporates, and energy industry stakeholders.

Sarah began her career in radiation protection, working with the South Australian EPA and international consultancies on uranium projects. Her technical capabilities cover environmental physics, radiation safety, project approvals and stakeholder engagement.

In 2015, Sarah moved from the mining sector to the electricity sector where she focussed on wholesale energy risk management for energy companies such Meridian Energy, SIMEC Energy, EnergyAustralia and Blue NRG. More recently, as the Head of Energy Supply for Canberra Data Centres, she led the company’s strategy development to secure affordable, reliable, and decarbonised energy—overseeing large-scale procurement and supporting grid integration and stakeholder engagement in Australia and New Zealand.

Sarah is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and a member of several professional bodies, including the Australian Institute of Physics, and the Australasian Radiation Protection Society. She serves as Deputy Chair of the Coalition for Conservation, as a director of the energy advisory, E-Australasia, and as the Founder and Director of RPD Insights, an independent energy consultancy.   Sarah holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of Adelaide, with research conducted at Jefferson Lab (US Department of Energy).