Transgrid Competitors

Essential Energy builds, operates and maintains one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, providing a vital service to over 900,000 customers across regional, rural and remote communities. Our network footprint covers 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, traversing 737,000 square kilometres of diverse landscape from the desert to the coast, across alpine to sub-tropical. Delivering safe and reliable power for our communities is at the core of what we do. The poles and wires that line our streets deliver the energy that powers the homes, hospitals, schools and businesses that form our communities. But they can also allow for communities to generate, share and store their own electricity. Through innovation and technology, we are actively supporting the energy transition by inspiring and enabling the network of the future. Underpinning this is our commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors and the community. We strive to continuously improve our safety performance and we work with the people we serve to promote electrical safety awareness. We're dedicated to giving back to the communities where we live and work. Essential Energy, power and people you can rely on, now and in the future.

Snowy Hydro is a dynamic and growing integrated energy business that supplies electricity to more than one million homes and businesses. The Snowy Hydro Group includes our generation business and three retail companies: Red Energy, Lumo Energy and Direct Connect. Our role is to provide national energy security, help with the transition to a new era of renewables, and maintain healthy competition in the retail energy markets. Our retail companies put customers first and continue to be recognised as leaders in customer service and support. Our story began in 1949 with the construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme, which included nine power stations, 16 major dams, 80 kilometres of aqueducts and 145 kilometres of interconnected tunnels. Today we have a generation capacity of 5,500MW, including our gas-fired and diesel-fired assets, and are the fourth-largest retailer in the energy market. Snowy Hydro is well underway with the construction of the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project, which will add 2,000MW of generation and 175 hours of storage to the energy market. As leaders in renewable energy we have also signed contracts for more than 1,000MW of renewable generation from 10 wind and solar projects. These are exciting additions to our energy portfolio that will help underpin energy security and Australia’s renewable energy future. Snowy Hydro has been incorporated under the Corporations Act (Cth) 2001 since 2002, and is governed by an independent Board of Directors. For more than 70 years, Snowy has been a proud member and supporter of the communities in which we live and work. We make a significant contribution to the local economy through jobs, investment and business opportunities.

Ausgrid is Australia's largest distributor of electricity, provided products and services to 1.7 million customers in Sydney, the Hunter and the Central Coast. Since becoming a new business on 1 December 2016, Ausgrid has begun a significant transformation program to deliver three clear priorities - providing affordable, reliable and sustainable energy. Ausgrid operates, maintains and builds the grid powering Sydney - the nation's largest economy - and our diverse customer base ranges from family homes, to small businesses, rural customers and large national and global corporations. The grid supplies industries such as mining, manufacturing, oil refining, shipping, engineering, tourism and agriculture. As the energy sector rapidly evolves, Ausgrid is working to ensure its investment decisions and service delivery meets all customers' needs. We are committed to consulting with stakeholders and customers, drive down operating costs and ensure customers are getting value for money. Our vision is to be a leading energy solutions provider, recognised both locally and globally. Ausgrid will continue to connect communities and empower lives and the business will achieve that by working closely with customers and stakeholders.