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Ausgrid

Logo: ausgrid.com.au3

State owned electricity infrastructure company

Ausgrid is an electricity distribution company which owns and operates the electrical networks supplying 1.8 million customers servicing more than 4 million people in Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales, Australia. It was formed in 2011 from the state-owned energy retailer/distributor, EnergyAustralia, when the retail division of the company, along with the EnergyAustralia brand, was sold by the Government of New South Wales, and the remainder renamed Ausgrid.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2011Founded1

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Ausgrid is an electricity distribution company which owns and operates the electrical networks supplying 1.8 million customers servicing more than 4 million people in Sydney, the Central Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales, Australia. It was formed in 2011 from the state-owned energy retailer/distributor, EnergyAustralia, when the retail division of the company, along with the EnergyAustralia brand, was sold by the Government of New South Wales, and the remainder renamed Ausgrid.2

The story

Ausgrid has received numerous complaints and requests for better stakeholder management and consultation of the local community. Ausgrid was seen as forcing its network capacity increasing (and therefore profit increasing) projects onto local residential communities. Residents in the suburbs of Leichhardt, Penshurst and East Lindfield protested against proposed electricity infrastructure being installed near their homes without proper consultation or response to complaints by the community. The residents, after many urgent appeals to Ausgrid's former COO Trevor Armstrong and the former chairman Roger Massey-Green, instead notified local MPs, the media, the Environmental Protection Authority and other authorities.

Ausgrid was also accused of "gold plating" its assets to inflate the privatisation price. Ausgrid undertook the rapid replacement of its fleet of vehicles.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ausgrid, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • Government of New South Wales

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Timeline

  1. 2011Founded Founded1

Sources

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