Private company

EnergyAustralia

Australian energy company

EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia. It is one of the "big three" retailers in the National Electricity Market. It generates electricity primarily using coal fired generation, at the Yallourn Power Station in Victoria, and the Mount Piper Power Station in New South Wales.2 It employed 2,300 people.1 Its revenue was A$6.9 billion.1 It is part of CLP Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1
  • Industryelectric power industry, energy industry, trade of electricity1
  • HeadquartersMelbourne1
  • Websitewww.energyaustralia.com.au
  • Legal formAustralian Proprietary Company, Limited By Shares1
  • LEI549300PII3IKIWNKY9853
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressTWO MELBOURNE QUARTER LEVEL 19, 3008 Docklands, Australia3
  • Registered withThe Australian Securities and Investment Commission, 086 014 9683

EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia. It is one of the "big three" retailers in the National Electricity Market. It generates electricity primarily using coal fired generation, at the Yallourn Power Station in Victoria, and the Mount Piper Power Station in New South Wales. 10% of its generation is from wind power, 32% from gas, and 58% from coal. It is Australia's second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, after AGL Energy. As a loss making company in 2023, its parent in Hong Kong, CLP Group, has stated that it is looking for partners for renewable energy investment, however as of this time, there were no plans to build new renewable energy itself.2

Corporate structure

EnergyAustralia is part of a group headed by CLP Group. 5 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • CLP Group Hong Kong
    • EnergyAustralia Docklands, Australia
      • Ecogen Energy Subsidiary
      • Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm Owned · South Australia, Australia
      • Hallett Power Station Owned · Australia
      • Mount Piper Power Station Owned · New South Wales, Australia
      • Tallawarra Power Station Owned · Yallah, Australia
      • Yallourn Power Station Owned · Victoria, Australia
    • Ho-Ping Power Company Stake · 20% · Heping Village
    • CLP Holdings Subsidiary

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What EnergyAustralia reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm
  • Hallett Power Station
  • Mount Piper Power Station
  • Tallawarra Power Station
  • Yallourn Power Station

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

In 2005, TXU Corp sold all its Australian assets to Singapore Power, which retained the distribution businesses (electricity and natural gas distribution networks) in Victoria, and onsold the retail and generation businesses to the Hong Kong–based CLP Group, which also owned the Yallourn Power Station, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. In Australia, CLP traded as TRUenergy, and became the fifth largest energy retailer in Australia. In 2011, TRUenergy acquired from the New South Wales Government the state's electricity retail business and trade name of EnergyAustralia. Following the sale of the government's electricity retail assets, the government changed the name of the remainder of the government enterprise to Ausgrid, and in 2012 TRUenergy changed its name to EnergyAustralia.

In 2013, EnergyAustralia acquired Wallerawang Power Station, now closed, along with Mount Piper Power Station, both in New South Wales, from Delta Electricity for A$160 million.

In 2015, EnergyAustralia closed its call centre in Melbourne, outsourcing up to 300 jobs to the Philippines.

In 2018, EnergyAustralia became one of the 17 energy businesses who supported the launch of the Energy Charter, a global initiative aimed at bringing together all parts of the power supply chain to give customers more affordable and reliable energy.

In 2021, EnergyAustralia announced that it will close the Yallourn Power Station in mid-2028, four years ahead of schedule, and instead build a 350-megawatt power-generating battery in the Latrobe Valley by the end of 2026. At the time, Yallourn produced about 20% of Victoria's electricity.

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

Products and brands

  • electricity
  • natural gas

Listed on Wikidata.1

EnergyAustralia supplies electricity and natural gas to more than 1.7 million residential and business customers throughout Australia.

In 2021 to 2022, it emitted 16.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, making it Australia's second largest emitter.

As of July 2017, EnergyAustralia has a master hedge agreement with Ecogen Energy for Ecogen to supply to it the output from Ecogen's gas-fired Newport and Jeeralang Power Stations, both in Victoria, which have a combined capacity of 960 megawatts (1,290,000 hp). EnergyAustralia also owns the gas-fired Hallett Power Station in South Australia with a capacity of 200 megawatts (270,000 hp).EnergyAusteralia operates in Queensland,Victoria,South Australia,and New South Wales as reported by moveinconnect.

In addition to the retail function, EnergyAustralia has a significant portfolio of industrial and commercial customers, and a A$5 billion portfolio of energy assets, including Hallett Power Station, Wallerawang Power Station (now decommissioned), and Mount Piper Power Station. It owned an underground natural gas storage facility at the Iona Gas Plant near Port Campbell until 2015.

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In September 2023, the ACCC, the competition regulator, commenced legal action in regard to EnergyAustralia allegedly not complying with industry regulations around transparency in pricing, in 2022. EnergyAustralia may face millions of dollars of fines in regard to this.

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

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

Also owns

  • Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm
  • Hallett Power Station
  • Mount Piper Power Station
  • Tallawarra Power Station
  • Yallourn Power Station

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1995Founded Founded1

Sources

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