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Call out for Community Choices Champions

Essential Energy’s Community Choices program is open once more, allowing people across rural, regional and remote NSW and parts of Southern Queensland to vote for those grassroots causes that can do with some extra support.

19 May 2021

Community
Exploring the energy transition roadmap

The NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap was legislated in late November 2020 and represents a significant piece of legislation and suite of policies that aims to deliver the major infrastructure needed to modernise the electricity system for NSW.

19 May 2021

Future energy
Drive safe

Every day before 10.00am, Essential Energy fleet vehicles travel the equivalent of driving around the earth’s circumference.

19 May 2021

Safety
CEO Welcome - Newsletter May 2021

It’s hard to believe that significant areas of NSW have suffered through their third one-in-a-hundred year event in a little over 18 months.

19 May 2021

Corporate
Connecting with the future

Genex and Essential Energy worked together to finalise a 5km-long 66kV overhead powerline to connect the PV Plant substation to the existing West Jemalong Essential Energy substation.

19 May 2021

Future energy
Mid North Coast floods 2021

Flooding is a relatively regular event in the Mid North Coast of NSW, but floods of March 2021 broke the banks and broke the records.

19 May 2021

Community Network
New kids on the block

February this year saw 52 new apprentices, trainees and graduates commence their careers with Essential Energy.

19 May 2021

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