Essential Energy
UtilitiesNew South Wales, Australia1001-5000 Employees
Essential Energy is an Australian utilities company that builds, operates, and maintains a major electricity distribution network serving more than 900,000 customers in regional, rural, and remote communities. Its network footprint covers about 95 percent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, spanning 737,000 square kilometres across diverse landscapes. The company is based in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, and employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people. Its remit centers on delivering safe and reliable power through an extensive poles-and-wires network, while enabling communities to generate, share, and store their own electricity and supporting the energy transition through innovation. The company has pursued partnerships with renewable energy developers on projects such as the Braidwood Renewable Energy Project and is deploying AI technology to improve safety across its network.