EnergyAustralia was a
state–owned enterprise of the
Government of New South Wales,
Australia. It was
electricity and gas supplier and retailer which primarily supplied the
Sydney,
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and
Central Coast areas of
New South Wales
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. Since market deregulation, it increased its focus on retail supply opportunities in electricity and gas to the
Victorian market and electricity in the deregulated
south–east corner of
Queensland
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History
EnergyAustralia has origins over 100 years old, and was formed after a merger in 1996 between Orion Energy (formerly Shortland Electricity and Shortland County Council) and
Sydney Electricity (formerly
Sydney County Council,
Mackellar County Council and St George County Council).
In 2011, EnergyAustralia's retail business and company name was sold to
TRUEnergy
EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based and listed China Light and Power (CLP Group). EnergyAustralia also ...
. In 2012, TRUEnergy adapted the name
EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based and listed China Light and Power (CLP Group). EnergyAustralia also ...
. The distribution business remained a state government enterprise and was renamed
Ausgrid
Ausgrid is an electricity distribution company which owns, maintains and operates the electrical networks supplying 1.8 million customers servicing more than 4 million people in Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales, ...
.
Energy Australia has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based China Light and Power Co Ltd since 2011
Operations
The company had a price-regulated monopoly for the supply of electricity to its supply area. The residential
energy market
Energy markets are national and international regulated markets that deal specifically with the trade and supply of energy. Energy market may refer to an electricity market, but can also refer to other sources of energy. Typically energy developme ...
was deregulated in 1997 and full retail contestability introduced in 2002.
EnergyAustralia owned an electricity distribution network in addition to its retail activities. The electricity distribution network covered most of the eastern parts of Sydney,
Central Coast and
Hunter regions, with the
Integral Energy distribution network covering most parts of Western Sydney.
EnergyAustralia owned its own metering services company
Testing & Certification Australia, an accredited metering provider, providing contestable metering services to all energy retailers. TCA also includes a high power facility at
Lane Cove
Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governmen ...
, a NATA registered instrument calibration facility and was involved in electrical safety compliance testing of appliances until this division was closed in 2010, with the capability being sold to
Vipac Engineers and Scientists Pty Ltd. The metering services, Lane Cove High Power Testing Station and instrument calibration facility were later rebranded to PLUS ES.
EnergyAustralia also offered customers the choice of renewable green power which produces no green house gas emissions and is accredited by the National GreenPower Accreditation Program.
References
External links
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About EnergyAustraliaPLUS ES
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Government-owned companies of New South Wales
Electric power companies of Australia