Our profile
Ergon Energy, as a Queensland Government Owned Corporation, operates as an electricity distributor, retailer and generator and services around 680,000 customers across its vast operating area of over one million square kilometres – 97% of the state of Queensland – from the expanding coastal and rural population centres to the remote communities of outback Queensland and the Torres Strait.
We are all about delivering on our purpose – ‘to provide safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy solutions to support our customers and the Queensland economy’. To make this happen, Ergon Energy has around 4,600 employees and a total asset base of $8.7 billion
Ergon Energy's electricity network consists of approximately 150,000 kilometres of powerlines and one million power poles, along with associated infrastructure such as major substations and power transformers. We also own and operate 33 stand-alone power stations that provide supply to isolated communities across Queensland which are not connected to the main electricity grid. Since August 2007, Ergon Energy has owned and operated the Barcaldine gas-fired power station along with its associated infrastructure. The power station supplies power to the main grid.
Ergon Energy is a major contributor to the development of skills across regional Queensland. We also take our social responsibility seriously by partnering with the communities we serve.
We are one of Australia's largest purchasers of renewable energy and are actively involved in alternative energy generation solutions.
Ergon Energy was formed in 1999, by the State Government, from the then six regional Queensland electricity distributors and their subsidiary retailer. Today the principal operating companies are Ergon Energy Corporation Limited, as the electricity distributor, and its subsidiary Ergon Energy Queensland Pty Ltd, a ‘non-competing’ electricity retailer.
As a government-owned ‘non-competing’ electricity retailer, we are unique in that we are only permitted to offer our customers the government set electricity tariffs (or notified prices) that apply to all non-market domestic, rural and business customers throughout Queensland. Regardless of whether our customers are buying their electricity from us as their franchise retailer or from another retailer, however, it remains our priority as an energy distributor to provide a safe, dependable and sustainable electricity supply for regional Queensland.
This responsibility is central to the sustainability of the regional Queensland communities where we both live and work.
Our vision
To be a high performance, customer-driven energy business.
Our purpose
To provide safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable energy solutions to support our customers and the Queensland economy.
Our values
