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• EnergyAustralia dragged into major phishing scam

  EnergyAustralia becomes second Australian energy provider to be impersonated by cyber criminals in malware campaign this year.

• BYOD raises privacy concerns at Energy Australia

  Energy Australia has had to respond to employee concerns about location privacy as a result of rolling out a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, according to Drew Ball, telephony analyst at Energy Australia.

• EnergyAustralia hits back over billing integration project

  EnergyAustralia claims that an article in The Australian has “misrepresented” a project to integrate billing platforms from Oracle and SAP.

• Tech Ed 2011: Ausgrid replaces "useless" intranet with SharePoint 2010

  Battling with a virtually useless intranet, Australian energy utility Ausgrid set about finding a platform its users could trust and one that would provide some benefit to the organisation.

• Updated: NSW to pilot $100 million smart grid project

  A $100 million trial of the Federal Government's smart grid project, <i>Smart Grid, Smart City</i>, is set to be rolled out across 50,000 home in five sites across New South Wales.

• EnergyAustralia rules out commercial WiMAX interests

  EnergyAustralia has ruled out becoming a retail service provider (RSP) under the National Broadband Network (NBN), despite its growing fibre and WiMAX-based infrastructure in NSW.

• EnergyAustralia wins $100m smart grid project

  EnergyAustralia has won its bid for the Smart Grid, Smart Cities project, a $100 million commercial-scale grid that will be implemented across five cities in Sydney and the Hunter region. EnergyAustralia will lead a consortium as the preferred applicant in the federally-funded project. The comes under the mantle of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in consultation with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism. The trial will showcase electricity network technology, including self-healing when faults and interruptions occur and greater customer control.

• EnergyAustralia gets smart

  The concept of smart energy monitoring has captured the imagination. In 2009, the federal government launched its National Energy Efficiency Initiative, providing up to $100 million for a smart grid demonstration project to encourage the development of a smart grid network in Australia.

• Corporate responsibility index results announced

  The seventh corporate responsibility index (CRI) results have been announced in Canberra with award winners being recognised for responsible and sustainable business practice.