Aurora Energy (other)
Aurora Energy may refer to: * Aurora Energy (Alaska), an energy company in Fairbanks, Alaska * Aurora Energy (New Zealand), an energy company in Otago, New Zealand *Aurora Energy (Tasmania) Aurora Energy is a Government of Tasmania owned Electricity retailing, electricity retailer in Australia. History Aurora was formed on 1 July 1998 under the ''Electricity Companies Act 1997'' as part of the breaking up of the Hydro Tasmania, H ...

Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a Municipal home rule, home rule city and the county seat, borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior Alaska, interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census put the population of the city proper at 32,515 and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska, after Anchorage, Alaska, Anchorage. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost metropolitan statistical area in the United States, located by road ( by air) south of the Arctic Circle. In August 1901, E. T. Barnette founded a trading post on the south bank of the Chena River. A gold discovery near the trading post sparked the Fairbanks Gold Rush, and many miners moved to the area. There was a boom in construction, and in November 190 ...
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Aurora Energy (New Zealand)
Aurora Energy is New Zealand's seventh largest electricity distribution network by customer connections, supplying electricity to 91,600 homes, farms and businesses in Dunedin, Central Otago, and the Queenstown-Lakes District. Aurora Energy is owned by Dunedin City Holdings Limited on behalf of the Dunedin City Council. It is governed by a board of directors. Its chief executive, Richard Fletcher, joined Aurora in 2018. History Origins The history of electricity supply to Dunedin dates from 1907, when the Dunedin City Council developed New Zealand's first large hydro-electric generating station on the Waipori River. Power from the initial Waipori scheme was transmitted at 35kV over a route to Dunedin using duplicate lines. The Council continued with further hydro-electricity developments on the Waipori River for almost 80 years. The largest development on the river was the construction of a high dam, forming Lake Mahinerangi. The Waipori scheme was interconnected with the Wa ...
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