New Central Coast headquarters for EnergyAustralia

The $20 million plus development will be located off Ourimbah Creek Road between the Pacific Highway and the F3 Freeway. EnergyAustralia’s Managing Director, George Maltabarow said the proposed Ourimbah field services base would be one of three key sites the corporation has developed on the Coast in recent years.

“EnergyAustralia’s frontline workforce has grown in recent years with the number of employees working on the Central Coast now almost three hundred and fifty,” Mr Maltabarow said.  The new facility is scheduled to be fully operational by 2012 and will form the major base for EnergyAustralia to service its network operations on the Coast.

“Our investments across the Central Coast will continue to grow over the next five years as we roll out a record $650 million network improvement program to manage the needs of this fast growing region,” he said.

Mr Maltabarow said the multi-million dollar development would consolidate services and staff based at the West Gosford pole depot and works depot and the Noraville works depot. “Our field services operations have simply outgrown the space available at these sites. We now have an opportunity to bring staff and services operating from the existing depots into a centrally located facility that will be purpose built to cater for current and future needs.”

EnergyAustralia’s new multi-million dollar Ourimbah development follows on from a number of key investments in recent years. More than 100 EnergyAustralia staff are already working out of offices at Tuggerah Business Park following EnergyAustralia’s decision to invest about $10.5 million to establish a permanent base in the demographic heartland of the Central Coast back in 2007.

EnergyAustralia also invested about $13 million on the purchase of a 22,000 square metre warehouse in Somersby in 2008 to help deliver their $8 billion capital works programme.

The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions within EnergyAustralia’s network with peak demand for power in the region expected to increase by about 3.5 per cent per year. Mr Maltabarow said the Central Coast forms an important part of EnergyAustralia’s network with almost 10 per cent of their network customers based in the Central Coast region.

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