Supporting partners at Australian Energy Week 2016
The Australian Energy Council represents 22 major electricity and downstream natural gas businesses operating in competitive wholesale and retail energy markets. These businesses collectively generate the overwhelming majority of electricity in Australia and sell gas and electricity to over 10 million homes and businesses.
The energy council began operating from 1 January 2016. With Australia’s energy industry undergoing a period of rapid, transformative change member companies of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa), the Energy Networks Association (ENA) and the Energy Retailers Association of Australia (ERAA) decided to reorganise and rationalise their representative associations in 2015.
From 1 January 2016, the merchant, non-network energy businesses commenced the Australian Energy Council and the ERAA merged into this new organisation.
Matthew Warren appointed current esaa Chief Executive, Matthew Warren, as its inaugural Chief Executive. Interim ERAA Chief Executive Alex Fraser was retained by the Australian Energy Council as its General Manager, Retail.
The ENA continues to serve its network members and absorbed the responsibility for Grid Australia activities on behalf of the electricity transmission sector.
The Centre for Market Design (CMD) is a research centre jointly funded by the Commonwealth Treasury, the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance and the University of Melbourne, until December 2017.
We support policy innovation by applying economic design techniques to public policy, procurement and resource allocation problems. We have particular expertise in mechanism design, auction theory, matching markets, experimental economics, and structural econometrics.
The CMD was created specifically to build capabilities needed in economic design and to harness these ideas and techniques to create solutions to ‘real world’ public policy problems. Visit our Research and Policy pages to find out more about our work.
The Energy Efficiency Council is Australia’s peak body for energy efficiency, cogeneration and demand management.
The Council is a not-for-profit membership association which exists to make sensible, cost effective energy efficiency measures standard practice across the Australian economy. We work on behalf of our members to promote stable government policy, provide clear information to energy users and drive the quality of energy efficiency products and services.
Formed in 2009, the EEC now represents over 70 members from business and government that:
- provide high quality energy efficiency advice, services and management
- manufacture, install or service energy efficiency products or technologies
- manufacture, install or manage of cogeneration and trigeneration systems
- develop, market or implement demand management systems and services
The EEC is a national organisation with headquarters in Melbourne.
The Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA) was formed in 1996 to provide a single national association to effectively represent and service the needs of Australian energy users. We exist to assist our members run efficient and profitable businesses as they relate to their energy use.
EUAA operates to support its members, helping them to achieve their energy objectives through a range of services that focus on key areas of Advocacy, Communication, Networking and Service.
There is no other organisation in Australia with the credentials of EUAA to represent the needs of energy users in our rapidly evolving and volatile energy markets.
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) is a peak industry association in Australia which along with its affiliates represents the interests of more than 60,000 businesses in an expanding range of sectors including: manufacturing; engineering; construction; automotive; food; transport; information technology; telecommunications; call centres; labour hire; printing; defence; mining equipment and supplies; airlines; and other industries. The businesses which we represent employ more than 1 million people.
We are an organisation committed to helping Australian industry with a focus on building competitive and sustainable industries through global integration, skills development, productive and flexible workplace relations, infrastructure development and innovation. Our legitimacy comes also from our role in and connection with the broader community.
Our organisation provides practical information, advice and assistance to help members run their businesses more effectively. It ensures through policy leadership that members have a voice at all levels of government, by representing and promoting their interests on current and emerging issues.
Ai Group members operate small, medium and large businesses across a range of industries.
Ai Group is closely affiliated with more than 50 other employer groups in Australia alone and directly manages a number of those organisations.
Ai Group is the market leader in Australia's industry representation. We understand business and industry, better than anyone else.
