Alinta
| Public company | |
| Industry | Energy |
| Successor | Alinta Energy |
| Founded | As AlintaGas Ltd - January 1995 |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
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Key people
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Leonard Gill, Chairman Jeff Dimery, CEO |
| Products | Oil, Gas & Electricity |
| Revenue | A$1.84 billion (2010) |
 -A$0.58 billion (2010) |
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Number of employees
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~4200 |
Alinta was an Australian energy infrastructure company. It has grown from a small, Western Australia-based gas distributor and retailer to the largest energy infrastructure company in Australia. It was bought in 2007 by a consortium including Singapore Power and various parties which include the now defunct Babcock & Brown funds.
The word Alinta is derived from the word for fire in a traditional language of an Aboriginal tribe from Victoria.
It was formed as AlintaGas in January 1995 when the vertical monopolist energy supplier, the State Energy Commission of Western Australia, was disaggregated into separate gas and electricity corporations. On 13 July 2000 legislation was passed by the Government of Western Australia for the sale of AlintaGas which subsequently listed on the (ASX) on 17 October 2000.
On 8 May 2003 AlintaGas Ltd officially changed its name to Alinta Limited.
On 23 July 2003 through a series of complicated transactions involving Alinta, Aquila Inc, United Energy, and AMP Henderson Global, Alinta became the operator, manager and part owner of regulated energy assets in Western Australia and Victoria.
In April 2004 Alinta acquired Duke Energy International's assets in Australia and New Zealand. In October 2004 a DUET/Alinta/Alcoa Consortium acquired the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline from Epic Energy.
On 4 October 2005 Alinta publicly floated the pipelines and power stations it acquired from Duke Energy International into a separate investment vehicle, Alinta Infrastructure Holdings (AIH) which also traded on the ASX. In October 2006 Alinta, through Alinta IH Pty Ltd (Alinta IHPL), made an offer to buy out the 80% of the shareholding in AIH that it did not already own. By 11 January 2007 Alinta had acquired 91.4%, and moved to compulsorily acquire the remainder.
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