Ausgrid

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Ausgrid

Type	State government owned
Industry	Utility
Predecessor(s)	EnergyAustralia
Founded	1 March 2011 (2011-03-01)
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Services	Electricity distribution
Owner(s)	Government of New South Wales
Website	www.ausgrid.com.au

Ausgrid, a state owned electricity infrastructure company, owns, maintains and operates the electrical distribution networks to 1.6 million customers^[1] in Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter Region and Newcastle areas of New South Wales. It was formed in 2011 from the previously state owned energy retailer/distributor, EnergyAustralia, when the retail division of the company, along with the EnergyAustralia brand, was sold by the NSW State Government.

The company is owned by the Government of New South Wales; and it has two shares, one each held by the Minister for Finance and Services (New South Wales) and the NSW Treasurer respectively.^[2]

Sponsorship [edit]

Ausgrid inherited the naming rights sponsorship of Hunter Stadium from EnergyAustralia in March 2011. The stadium was known as Ausgrid Stadium until the contract expired at the end of 2011.^[3]

References [edit]

^ "About Ausgrid". Ausgrid. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
^ "Mapping stakeholders". Ausgrid. 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
^ "EnergyAustralia stadium to change name". Newcastle Herald. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.

External links [edit]

ausgrid.com.au

Energy in New South Wales

Generation

Renewable energy plants

Biomass combustion	Broadwater Sugar Mill Broadwater Biomass Co-Gen Condong Sugar Mill Condong Biomass Co-Gen Harwood Sugar Mill Visy Paper, Tumut

Cogeneration	Amcor, Bomaderry BlueScope Steel, Port Kembla Caltex Refining, Kurnell Macquarie University Shell Refining, Clyde Stadium Australia University of Western Sydney Visy Paper, Smithfield

Hydro-electric	Bendeela Blowering Brown Mountain Burrendong Burrinjuck Chichester Copeton Glenbawn Guthega Hume Jindabyne Dam Mini Hydro Jounama Small Hydro Kangaroo Valley Keepit Kembla Grange Lostock Murray 1 Murray 2 Nymboida Oaky River Pindari The Drop Tumut 1 Tumut 2 Tumut 3 and Micro Hydro Warragamba Williams River Dam (private) Wyangala

Wind farms	Blayney Crookwell Hampton

Non-renewable energy plants

Coal fired	Bayswater Eraring Liddell Mount Piper Munmorah Redbank Vales Point Wallerawang

Natural gas	Appin Mine Belrose Colongra Earthpower Camelia Jacks Gully Liddell Lucas Heights I Lucas Heights II Shoalhaven Landfill Gas Project Smithfield Energy Facility Sydney Water, Malabar Tahmoor Tallawarra Teralba Tower Mine Uranquinty Wilga

Government-owned generators

Distribution

Distribution network operators	Ausgrid Endeavour Energy Essential Energy

Transmission network operators	TransGrid

Retail companies and brands	ActewAGL AGL Energy Country Energy EnergyAustralia Integral Energy Origin Energy Red Energy TRUenergy

Historical

Advance Energy Australian Inland Bega Valley County Council Electricity Commission of New South Wales EnergyAustralia (state government enterprise) Great Southern Energy Illawarra Electricity Macquarie County Council (Western Power) New England County Council (New England Electricity) North West County Council (North West Electricity) Northern Riverina County Council (Northern Riverina Electricity) Northern Rivers County Council (Northern Rivers Electricity) NorthPower Ophir County Council (Ophir Electricity) Orion Energy Oxley County Council (Oxley Electricity) Pacific Power Peel-Cunningham County Council (PCCC Electricity) Prospect Electricity Shortland County Council (Shortland Electricity) Southern Mitchell County Council (Southern Mitchell Electricity) Southern Riverina County Council (Southern Riverina Electricity) Southern Tablelands County Council (Southern Tablelands Electricity) Sydney County Council (Sydney Electricity) Ulan County Council (Ulan Electricity)