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6 unusual facts about Origin Energy


Andrew Blakers

Blakers invented the technology with colleague Dr Klaus Weber and developed it with funding from energy supplier Origin Energy and the Australian Research Council.

Eric Roozendaal

In 2010 and 2011, Roozendaal was criticised for the deal he brokered, as Treasurer of New South Wales, to privatise some of the NSW Government's electricity assets; the retail branches of Integral Energy and Country Energy were sold to Origin Energy in December 2010.

Grant King

Grant King is an Australian engineer and business executive, currently Managing Director of Origin Energy.

Torrens Island

Quarantine Power Station, built and operated since 2002 by Origin Energy; original capacity 95 MW, expanded in 2009 to 216 MW.

Uranquinty Power Station

On 19 January 2009 Origin Energy Limited announced that the Uranquinty Power Station was commissioned with eight people employed to operate the facility.

On 4 July 2008 Babcock and Brown Power announced that it had sold the 640 megawatt gas-fired Uranquinty power station in NSW for $700 million to Origin Energy.


Moomba, South Australia

There are a number of partners and contractors on site including SGS, O&G Solutions, Transfield Services, OneSteel, Origin Energy, Diversified Construction, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, ProTechnics a Division of Corelab and SAGE Automation.

UNSW Faculty of Engineering

Grant King, Civil Engineering - Managing Director, Origin Energy; Engineers Australia "Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013"


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