Verve Energy was a
Western Australian Government
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owned
corporation
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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 Power Corporation
Western Power Corporation (WPC), owned by the Government of Western Australia, was Western Australia's major electricity supplier from 1995 until 2006.
It was formed in 1995 when the monopoly electricity and gas supplier, the State Energy Co ...
, in 2006 during reforms to the state's electricity sector.
[On 1 January 2014, Verve ceased trading following a merger with Synergy, the WA State Government owned energy retailer for the South West Interconnected System. The retail and generating entity trades under the business name "Synergy".
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The company was merged into
Synergy in 2014.
Generators
Verve Energy owned five major
power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid.
Many ...
s, supplying electricity to the South West Interconnected System:
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Muja Power Station
Muja Power Station is a power station east of Collie, Western Australia. It has eight steam turbines served by coal-fired boilers that together generate a total capacity of 854 megawatts of electricity. It is the largest power station in the ...
, east of
Collie
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Collie Power Station
Collie Power Station is a power station in Collie, Western Australia. It is coal powered with one steam turbine that generates a total capacity of 300 megawatts of electricity. The coal is mined locally from the Collie Sub-basin and is transpo ...
, in Collie
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Kwinana Power Station, in
Naval Base heavy industrial suburb
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Cockburn Power Station, in
Cockburn
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Pinjar Power Station, in
Pinjar
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Mungarra Power Station
In addition it owned various other generation plants, including the
Albany Wind Farm, wind diesel, and
biomass facilities.
See also
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State Energy Commission of Western Australia
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Western Power
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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 ...
References
External links
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Government of Western Australia - Office of EnergyGovernment of Western Australia - Office of Energy - Electricity Reform Implementation Unit
Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
Energy in Western Australia
Government-owned companies of Western Australia
Energy companies established in 2006
Australian companies established in 2006
Defunct electric power companies of Australia
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