Territory Generation is a

government owned corporation A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn profit for the governmen ...

of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

(Australia), established on 1 July 2014. It had previously been an operational business unit of

Power and Water Corporation Power and Water Corporation, trading as PowerWater, is a Government of the Northern Territory owned corporation in the Northern Territory of Australia. PowerWater is the Northern Territory's premier provider of electricity, water and sewerage s ...

. Territory Generation owns and operates eight power stations in the Northern Territory. Territory Generation traces its history back to the first power stations in the Northern Territory which were built in 1934 in Darwin and 1937 in Alice Springs.

Power stations

The Northern Territory does not have a single interconnected electricity transmission network. Territory Generation owns and operates eight power stations on five separate networks. Three of these are regulated by the

Australian Energy Regulator The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) is the regulator of the wholesale electricity and gas markets in Australia. It is part of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and enforces the rules established by the Australian Energy Market C ...

and are managed by

Darwin–Katherine

Darwin and Katherine are on the largest regulated grid. * Katherine Power Station *

Channel Island Power Station Channel Island Power Station is the largest power station in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is positioned on an island in the Middle Arm of Darwin Harbour, supplying electricity to the Darwin-Katherine Interconnected System. It is curre ...

Weddell Power Station Weddell Power Station is a 129 MW natural gas-fired power station in the Northern Territory, located at Wickham, south-east of the Territory capital Darwin. Owned and operated by Territory Generation, it is the second largest power station in ...

Alice Springs

The Alice Springs grid is the second-largest regulated grid. * Ron Goodin Power Station *

Owen Springs Power Station Owen Springs Power Station is a power station located in the southern part of the Northern Territory of Australia in the locality of Hugh about south of Alice Springs. It was commissioned in 2011 and is now owned and operated by Territory Gene ...

Tennant Creek

The smallest regulated grid services the area around

Tennant Creek Tennant Creek ( wrm, Jurnkkurakurr) is town located in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the seventh largest town in the Northern Territory, and is located on the Stuart Highway, just south of the intersection with the western termin ...

. * Tennant Creek Power Station

Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon Power Station is the only commercial source of electricity in the area of Kings Canyon. It provides up to 1.1MW from a combination of solar and diesel generation.

Yulara

Yulara Power Station services the town and locality of

Yulara, Northern Territory Yulara is a town in the southern region of the Northern Territory, Australia. It lies as an unincorporated enclave within MacDonnell Region. At the , Yulara had a permanent population of 1,099, in an area of . It is by road from World Heritage ...

. It produces 11MW from natural gas and diesel backup.

References

Energy in the Northern Territory 2014 establishments in Australia Government-owned companies of the Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-stub