Electricity in Queensland
The electricity industry is made up of 4 distinct, yet interconnected, sectors involved in producing electricity and delivering it to homes and businesses - electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and retail.
The Queensland generation sector has a mixture of public and private ownership. The monopoly transmission and distribution assets are owned and operated by government-owned corporations, while the retail sector is entirely privately owned.
The Queensland Government owns electricity assets worth about $8 billion in generation, more than $3.9 billion in transmission and more than $13 billion in distribution.
In addition, significant capital investment is being comitted to transmission infrastructure (Powerlink) and distribution networks (ENERGEX and Ergon Energy) over the next 5 years.
This guide provides an overview of the electricity industry in Queensland.
