Western Power Corporation (WPC), owned by the

Government of Western Australia The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia. It is also commonly referred to as the WA Government o ...

, was

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's major

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described ...

supplier from 1995 until 2006. It was formed in 1995 when the

monopoly A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...

electricity and gas supplier, the State Energy Commission of Western Australia, was disaggregated into separate suppliers for gas ( AlintaGas) and electricity (WPC). In 2006, WPC was disaggregated into

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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 ...

and

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 ...

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External links

Government of Western Australia - Office of Energy

Government of Western Australia - Office of Energy - Electricity Reform Implementation Unit
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