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Ergon Energy
Ergon Energy owns and manages the electricity distribution network in Queensland's regional areas covering over 1 million square km.
Integral Energy
Electricity distributor and retailer in NSW, mainly serving the western and southern areas of Sydney.
Power and Water Corporation
Electricity distributor and retailer in the Northern Territory.
Western Power
Western Power is the main electricity transmission and distribution utility in South West Western Australia.
SP AusNet
SP AusNet is a major electricity and gas distributor in Victoria.
Energex
Energex is the electricity distribution network owner in South East Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Country Energy
Country Energy manages Australia's largest power supply network across 95 per cent of New South Wales' land mass and offers retail electricity in five states and territories.
ETSA Utilities
ETSA Utilities is South Australia's electricity distributor.
Powercor Australia
Victoria's largest electricity distributor.
CitiPower
Owner and manager of the electricity distribution network in Melbourne's CBD and inner suburbs.
Aurora Energy
Electricity distributor and retailer in Tasmania.
Alinta
Alinta owns and operates a number of gas and electricity distribution networks around Australia.
ActewAGL
Provides distribution and retail for utility services in the ACT.
EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia operates one of the largest electricity networks in Australia distributing electricity to the Sydney, Central Coast and Hunter regions.
Horizon Power
Horizon Power distributes power to the Pilbara, Kimberley, Gascoyne, Mid West and southern Goldfields in regional WA.
AGL
AGL is one of Australia's leading integrated energy companies and includes retail and merchant energy businesses, power generation assets and an upstream gas portfolio.
CS Energy Ltd
CS Energy own and operate power stations, including Swanbank Power Station (south east Queensland) Callide Power Station (central Queensland) Mica Creek Power Station (north west Queensland).
Delta Electricity
Delta Electricity has four major power stations in NSW; Vales Point, Munmorah, Mt Piper and Wallerawang.
Energy Brix Australia
Energy Brix is an electricity generator located in Morwell, Victoria and has the capacity to generate 170MW of electricity.
Hazelwood Power
International Power Australia owns and operates 3,654MW (gross) of renewable, gas-fired and brown coal-fired generating plants in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
Eraring Energy
Eraring Energy is a state owned corporation that manages a diverse set of electricity-generating assets located throughout New South Wales, Australia. Eraring Energy has a combined generating capacity of over 3,000 megawatts (MW), including the Eraring Power Station at 2,640MW, which is Australia’s equal largest.
Hydro Tasmania
Hydro Tasmania generates approximately 10,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity annually, principally from an integrated hydro-power scheme located in high rainfall areas in the state of Tasmania. The scheme consists of 29 power stations, numerous lakes and over 50 large dams.
Loy Yang Marketing Management Company
Loy Yang Power owns and operates the 2,100 megawatt Loy Yang power station and the adjacent coal mine. The company supplies approximately one third of the state of Victoria's power requirements.
Macquarie Generation
Macquarie Generation owns and operates Liddell Power Station and Bayswater Power Station between Singleton and Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW.
NewGen Power Pty Ltd
NewGen Power operates a portfolio of power stations under the “NewGen” banner and trades electricity in both the National Electricity Market (NEM) and Western Australian electricity markets.
Flinders Power
Flinders Power bids up to 910 MW of electricity into the South Australian and National Electricty Markets. Flinders Power's Augusta Power Stations are fueled with coal mined at the Leigh Creek Coalfield.
Origin Energy Ltd
Origin Energy operates a number of base load and peak gas open cycle and cogeneration power stations.
Snowy Hydro Ltd
Snowy Hydro own and operate the 3756 megawatt (MW) Snowy Mountains Scheme, and integrated water and hydro-electric power project located in Australia's Southern Alps, the 300MW Valley Power gas-fired power station and the 320MW Laverton North gas-fired power station both located in Victoria.
Stanwell Corporation Ltd
Stanwell Corporation is a power generator with a portfolio comprising coal-fired thermal, wind and hydroelectric power generation facilities.
Tarong Energy Corporation Ltd
Tarong Energy, a Queensland Government Owned Corporation, supplies about one quarter of Queensland's electricity supply through hydro, coal-fired and wind-powered generators.
TRUenergy
TRUenergy own Hallett Power Station at Canowie, South Australia and Yallourn Brown Coal Mine And Power Station in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria.
Intergen
Intergen operates the Millmerran and Callide C coal-fired power stations in Queensland.
Verve Energy
Verve Energy owns and operates four major power stations in WA – Kwinana, Cockburn, Pinjar and Muja.
TransAlta
TransAlta owns 2 gas/diesel power stations in WA.
Department of Industry Tourism and Resources
The federal government department responsible for energy and resources.
Ministerial Council on Energy
The MCE is the national policy and governance body for the Australian energy market, including electricity and gas, as outlined in the COAG Australian Energy Market Agreement.
NEMMCO - National Electricity Marketing and Management Company
NEMMCO is the national electricity market and power systems operator.
Australian Energy Market Commission
The Council of Australian Governments, through its Ministerial Council on Energy (MCE), established the Australian Energy Market Commission to be the Rule maker for national energy markets. The AEMC is currently responsible for Rules and policy advice covering the National Electricity Market.
Australian Energy Regulator
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) performs economic regulation of the wholesale electricity market and electricity transmission networks in the National Electricity Market (NEM), and enforcement of the National Electricity Law and National Electricity Rules.
Australian Greenhouse Office
The Australian Greenhouse Office, part of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, delivers the majority of programmes under the Australian Government’s climate change strategy.
Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator is a statutory authority established to oversee the implementation of the Australian Government's mandatory renewable energy target.
Basix
BASIX, the Building Sustainability Index, ensures homes are designed to use less potable water and be responsible for fewer greenhouse gas emissions by setting energy and water reduction targets for house and units.
Essential Services Commission of Victoria
The Commission is Victoria’s independent economic regulator of essential services supplied by the electricity, gas, water and sewerage, ports, grain handling and rail freight industries.
VENCorp
VENCorp is the major State Government owned entity within Victoria's privatised energy sector for the delivery of electricity and gas.
Sustainability Victoria
Sustainability Victoria's purpose is to show the way to using our resources more efficiently and reducing our everyday environmental impacts.
Queensland Department of Mines and Energy
The Department of Mines and Energy develops policies and regulation that drive new investment in Queensland's energy sector and ensure the continued delivery of reliable, competitively priced and sustainable energy to all Queenslanders.
Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources
Tasmanian government department covering energy activities.
Office of the Tasmanian Energy Regulator
Tasmanian gas and electricity regulator.
Essential Services Commission of SA
South Australia's energy regulator.
Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council of South Australia
The Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council was established primarily to provide expert, independent advice to the South Australian Government and the Essential Services Commission of South Australia (ESCOSA) in relation to the state of the electricity supply industry in South Australia.
Office of the Technical Regulator - South Australia
The primary role of the Technical Regulator is to ensure the safety of workers, consumers and property, and to ensure compliance with legislation and technical standards and codes throughout the electricity and gas industries.
Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales - IPART
IPART is the independent body that oversees regulation of the water, gas, electricity and public transport industries in New South Wales.
NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme
The NSW government website for the operation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme.
West Australian Office of Energy
The Office of Energy leads the development and implementation of policy to meet the energy needs of WA.
Power and Water Corporation - Northern Territory
The Power and Water Corporation is the Northern Territory of Australia's provider of electricity, water and sewerage services.
NSW Department of Water and Energy
NSW government department of water and energy.
Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy
The Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) is a member based industry association representing the sustainable energy industry in Australia.
National Generators Forum
The National Generators Forum (NGF) directly represents the 22 major power generators in the National Electricity Market.
Energy Networks Association
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) is the peak national body representing gas and electricity distribution businesses throughout Australia.
AusWind - the Australian Wind Energy Association
Auswind represents the Australian Wind Energy Industry by working with all levels of government, community groups and interested organisations to raise awareness of the benefits of wind energy and promote its use.
Australasian Energy Performance Contracting Association
AEPCA's members are formed from ESCO's, State Government Departments and private companies interested in the Performance Contracting process.
Energy Retailers Association of Australia
The ERAA is an independent association lobbying in the interests of Retailers of electricity and gas throughout the National Electricity Market (NEM) and the National Gas Markets.
Energy Supply Association of Australia
The Energy Supply Association of Australia represents Australia's electricity and downstream gas businesses.
Energy Users Association of Australia
EUAA members are business users of energy with activities across all states and many sectors of the economy.
Renewable Energy Generators of Australia (REGA)
REGA is the peak national body representing the leading generators, equipment suppliers and industry specialists in the zero emission electricity supply industry.
Australian Gas Association
Industry association mainly covering certification of gas and electrical appliances
Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association - APEA
The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association is the peak national body representing Australia's oil and gas exploration and production industry.
Eco Investor
A bi-monthly magazine providing information to investors wanting to invest in the environment.
ElectraNet SA
ElectraNet operates and manages the electricity transmission network throughout South Australia.
Powerlink
Powerlink is a government-owned corporation that owns, develops, operates and maintains Queensland’s high-voltage electricity transmission network.
SP AusNet
SP AusNet owns and operates electricity transmission and distribution networks, and gas distribution assets, in Victoria.
Transend Networks
Transend Networks Pty Ltd owns and operates the electricity transmission system in Tasmania.
TransGrid
TransGrid owns and operates the high voltage electricity transmission network throughout New South Wales.
VENCorp
VENCorp is the Victorian Network Service Provider responsible for planning, expanding and approving connections to the Victorian high voltage electricity transmission system, and directing expansion of the network.
Epic Energy
Epic Energy is one of Australia's largest gas transmission companies. It is the owner/operator of the Moomba to Adelaide Pipeline System and the South-east (Katnook) Pipeline System in South Australia, the Pilbara Energy Pipeline in Western Australia and the South West Queensland Pipeline.

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