EnergyAustralia was a state–owned enterprise of the

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, Australia. It was electricity and gas supplier and retailer which primarily supplied the

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and Central Coast areas of

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. after market deregulation, it increased its focus on retail supply opportunities in electricity and gas to the

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market and electricity in the deregulated

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History

EnergyAustralia was formed from a merger in 1996 of Orion Energy (formerly Shortland Electricity and Shortland County Council) and Sydney Electricity which had succeeded

Sydney County Council The Sydney County Council (SCC) was a County council (New South Wales), county council established in 1935 to produce electricity and operate the electricity network in a number of municipalities in metropolitan Sydney. SCC was established by t ...

. In 2005, EnergyAustralia formed a partnership with

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to operate the retail business in Victoria and South Australia. EnergyAustralia sold its 50% share of the partnership to International Power, who then rebranded the former partnership as Simply Energy (now

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). On 1 March 2011, EnergyAustralia's retail business was sold to

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. The distribution business was renamed

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Operations

The company had a price-regulated monopoly for the supply of electricity to its supply area. The residential

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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

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regions, with the

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distribution network covering most parts of

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. 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, 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 government area of the ...

, 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. 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 EnergyAustralia

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{{EnergyNSW Government-owned companies of New South Wales Electric power companies of Australia Government-owned energy companies 1996 establishments in Australia 2011 disestablishments in Australia