CS Energy is an Australia-based electricity generating company fully owned by the

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with its head office located in

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. The company was established in 1997 and employs more than 500 staff.

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is the board chairman. The Chief Executive Officer is Andrew Bills. The company's generation portfolio comprises coal-fired power stations. CS Energy has a trading portfolio of 3,535 megawatts in Australia's national electricity market. At present, the company owns and operates

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and Callide B Power Station. CS Energy also owns

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in a 50/50 joint venture with InterGen. CS Energy was awarded A$32 million in 2010 to help construct Australia's first large-scale

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project at Kogan Creek Power Station. Funding was provided by the

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under the Renewable Energy Demonstration Program. However, in March 2016, it was announced that CS Energy would 'pull the plug' on that project, at a loss of $40M to CS Energy and $6M to ARENA. In 2020, Stanwell and CS Energy were accused of driving up prices by creating an artificial lack of supply.

Management

Martin Moore was the CEO in 2017.

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CS Energy
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