Alinta Energy is an Australian electricity generating and gas retailing private company owned by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE). It was sold for $4 billion and was approved Treasurer Scott Morrison in 2017. Alinta Energy has an owned and contracted generation portfolio of up to 1,957 MW, approximately 1.1 million combined electricity and gas retail customers and around 800 employees across Australia and New Zealand. In March 2011, due to a

deleveraging At the micro-economic level, deleveraging refers to the reduction of the leverage ratio, or the percentage of debt in the balance sheet of a single economic entity, such as a household or a firm. It is the opposite of leveraging, which is the prac ...

transaction by the TPG Group,

Alinta Alinta was an Australian energy infrastructure company. It has grown from a small, Western Australia-based gas distributor and retailer to the largest energy infrastructure company in Australia. It was bought in 2007 by a consortium including ...

became Alinta Energy. Alinta Energy was acquired by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises in 2017. Chow Tai Fook Enterprises also acquired Loy Yang B power station with assists from Alinta Energy staff. In May 2018, Alinta Energy was announced as the principal partner of the Australian Men's cricket team on a four-year deal, the longest in Australian Cricket history. The Alinta Energy logo will feature on the players' kits for all international matches played in Australia.

Electricity generation

Alinta Energy's approximately 3,000MW electricity generation portfolio includes: # Port Hedland Power Station, Western Australia #

Newman Power Station Newman Power Station is a power station in Newman, Western Australia, part of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is located about 1,186 kilometres (737 mi) north of Perth, and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the Tropic of Capric ...

, Western Australia #

Pinjarra Power Station Pinjarra Power Station is a natural gas-fired power station in Western Australia. It is a 280 MW base load cogeneration power station located in Alcoa's Pinjarra Alumina Refinery, near the town of Pinjarra, approximately 80 km s ...

, Western Australia #

Wagerup Power Station Wagerup Power Station is a 380MW dual natural gas and distillate fuelled power station located at Alcoa’s Wagerup refinery in south-west Western Australia. Located about 130 km south of Perth, on the border of Western Australia’s Pee ...

, Western Australia # Goldfields Gas Pipeline, Western Australia # Reeves Plain Power Station (Proposed), South Australia #

Braemar Power Station Braemar Power Station is a complex of natural gas and coal seam gas fired combined-cycle power stations in Kogan, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It is near Dalby in the Darling Downs region. Braemar-1 Braemar-1 is a 502 MW o ...

, Queensland #

Bairnsdale Power Station Bairnsdale Power Station is a natural gas-fired power station in Victoria’s East Gippsland region, owned and operated by Alinta Energy. It is a fast start, peaking power station dispatching into the National Electricity Market. Bairnsdale Powe ...

, Victoria # Loy Yang B Power Station, Victoria #

Glenbrook Power Station Glenbrook Power Station is a 112MW co-generation plant located at Glenbrook, south of Auckland, New Zealand. Fully integrated into the New Zealand Steel plant, and enables New Zealand Steel to optimise its energy costs. Surplus natural gas from ...

, New Zealand

Natural gas

Alinta Energy's gas assets portfolio includes: *

Goldfields Gas Pipeline The Goldfields Gas Pipeline is a natural gas transmission pipeline which transports natural gas from Carnarvon basin producers in the north-west of Western Australia to Kalgoorlie in the south-east of Western Australia. The pipeline first transmi ...

Downstream electricity and natural gas retail

*Electricity: 2012 saw Alinta Energy enter the

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

markets for electricity customers. *Natural Gas: 700,000 gas customers (Western Australia)

Other assets

Flinders Power, a division of Alinta Energy, in May 2016 permanently closed

Playford A Power Station Playford may refer to: Places * City of Playford, Australia * Electoral district of Playford, Australia * Playford B Power Station, South Australia * Playford, Suffolk, a village in England * Hotel in Australia, part of Accor Hotels People *The ...

Playford B Power Station Playford B Power Station was located at Port Paterson in the Australian state of South Australia about south of the city centre of Port Augusta. It was coal powered with four 60 MW steam turbines that generated a total of 240 MW of electri ...

and Northern Power Station and is in the process of demolishing and remediating the sites. The mining operations at

Telford Cut Telford Cut was an open-cut coal mine, now closed, in the Leigh Creek Coalfield in South Australia. For the 72 years between its opening in 1943 and its closure, the mine supplied sub-bituminous coal to fire power stations first in Adelaide the ...

Leigh Creek, which supplied coal to these power stations, ceased in 2015. Alinta Energy is in the process of seeking approval to build the

Reeves Plains Power Station Reeves Plains Power Station is a proposal from Alinta Energy to build a gas-fired power station at Reeves Plains between Gawler and Mallala in South Australia. The proposed site borders both the Moomba-Adelaide gas pipe and an electricity tran ...

, a new gas-turbine power station in South Australia.

References

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External links

Alinta Energy website
Electric power companies of Australia Companies based in Sydney Utility companies of Australia Natural gas companies of Australia Australian subsidiaries of foreign companies 2017 mergers and acquisitions