Securing the Future

With the Territory growing, Power and Water needs to be able to provide a growing residential, business and industrial community with reliable electricity, water and sewerage services.

To meet current and future demand we have a five-year, $1 billion plan for building, upgrading and maintaining facilities – the largest investment in essential services in the Territory's history.

Power and Water has allocated $825 million for capital and $258 million for repairs and maintenance initiatives under this program across power generation, power networks, water, sewerage and business services.

Going Green

Power and Water is already one of Australia's cleanest power generators due to its use of natural gas for electricity production. The Corporation is also actively investing in renewable energy to displace fossil fuel consumption and to head towards a more sustainable future.

Initiatives include:

Long term Power Purchase Agreements, providing investors with the security required to develop renewable energy projects;
Purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) associated with Solar Hot Water Systems and rooftop photovoltaic systems which assist consumers to purchase these household renewable energy systems;
Rebates to assist consumers to retrofit a Solar Hot
Water System on older houses where additional costs are involved;
Support for the Alice Solar City Project through elevated buy –back rates for renewable energy systems, 'smart metering' with associated cost-reflective pricing, incentives for consumers who reduce their
consumption on the previous year, and the installation of up
to 300 rooftop solar panels over five years;
The installation of 30 solar dishes in remote locations through
Federally and privately funded projects;
Researching the viability of wind turbines in the Barkly Tableland;
Converting methane gas into electricity at the landfill site in
Darwin;
Trialling the use of vegetable-based biodiesel at Daly Waters power station.

Construction of a new office building carrying a Greenstar rating – the first in the Northern Territory and a case study that others can learn from.

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