The State Electricity Commission of Western Australia (known by its acronym SEC) was a government owned and managed

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

energy provider. It was established in 1945. It saw the introduction of piped gas into the south west of the state, as well as other infrastructure developments in its time. It was changed in 1975 to the

State Energy Commission of Western Australia The State Energy Commission of Western Australia was an Australian energy provider. It was established on 1 January 1975 as an amalgamation of the State Electricity Commission of Western Australia (established 1945) plus the Fuel and Power Co ...

and reorganized in 2006 into

Western Power The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to the various nations and states in the regions of Europe, North America, and Oceania.

Synergy Synergy is an interaction or cooperation giving rise to a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. The term ''synergy'' comes from the Attic Greek word συνεργία ' from ', , meaning "working together". History In Christia ...

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 S ...

Verve Energy Verve Energy was a Western Australian Government owned corporation responsible for operating the state's electricity generators on the state's South West Interconnected System (SWIS). It was split from the then vertically integrated Western Powe ...

and

Horizon Power Horizon Power is a commercially focused, state government-owned, power company that provides power supplies to Western Australia. It is responsible for generating, procuring, distributing and retailing electricity to residential, industrial and co ...

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External links

Australian Science at Work - State Electricity Commission of Western Australia (1945 - 1975)
Energy in Western Australia Defunct government agencies of Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-stub