EnergyAustralia
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| Type | Private (subsidiary of TRUenergy) |
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| Industry | Utility |
| Predecessor(s) | Orion Energy Sydney Electricity |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Area served | Sydney, Newcastle and Central Coast areas of NSW |
| Key people | George Maltabarow (Managing director) |
| Services | Electricity retail Natural gas retail |
| Employees | 4,767 (2006) |
| Parent | TRUenergy |
| Website | www.energy.com.au |
EnergyAustralia is a large Australian electricity and natural gas supplier and retailer. A subsidiary of TRUenergy, it primarily supplies the Sydney, Newcastle and Central Coast areas of New South Wales and has, since market deregulation, 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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[edit] 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). It was a state government enterprise of the Government of New South Wales. In March 2011, EnergyAustralia's retail business and company name was sold to TRUEnergy, with the distribution business to remain a state government enterprise renamed Ausgrid.
[edit] Operations
The current Managing Director is George Maltabarow.[1]
Previously the company had a price-regulated monopoly for the supply of electricity to its supply area. The residential energy market was deregulated in 1997 and full retail contestability introduced in 2002. EnergyAustralia also increasingly conducts electricity retailing outside of New South Wales, with the introduction of full retail contestability in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
EnergyAustralia owns its own metering services company Testing & Certification Australia, an accredited metering provider, providing contestable metering services. TCA also includes a High Power facility at Lane Cove, NSW, 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.
EnergyAustralia also offersrenewable green power which is accredited by the National GreenPower Accreditation Program. Depending on tariff type and locality, EnergyAustralia provides retail customers with a choice of 10%, 25%, 50% or 100% accredited GreenPower options. The independent watchdog organisation for Australian Green energy is Green Electricity Watch.
[edit] References
- ^ "NSW Government Directory". NSW Government. http://www.directory.nsw.gov.au/showposition.asp?id={450F351D-4C27-4B9C-A1BD-DF09194AB09D}. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
[edit] External links
- / Energy Australia's community conflict in Arncliffe
- Pennant Hills opposition to substation
- Leichhardt opposition to sub-station
- Official website
- About EnergyAustralia
- Testing & Certification Australia
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