Jersey Electricity Company
| Public limited company | |
| Industry | Energy |
| Founded | April 1924 |
| Headquarters | Jersey |
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Key people
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Geoffrey Grime, Chairman, Chris Ambler, CEO |
| Website | www |
The Jersey Electricity Company or Jersey Electricity (informally JEC or JE) is a public limited company, and the sole provider for electricity in Jersey. The JEC has two sites around the island, Queens Road, St Helier, the site of 2 Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines and La Collette Power Station where there are 4 Sulzer Diesels, 1 Rolls Royce Olympus, and 3 Parsons steam turbines.
The JEC was originally based at Queens Road, it was then moved to La Collette in 1965. The building at Queens Road was converted into offices, and a small shopping centre known as The Powerhouse Retail Park. Some power generating capacity remains at Queens Road in the shape of 2 gas turbines.
In 2012 the two older less efficient Mirlees diesels were removed and replaced with Sulzer diesels, in total there are now a total of four Sulzer diesles at La Collette
The JEC group includes many varied businesses including JE Building Services, Jendev, Channel Islands Electricity Grid a joint-venture, Jersey Energy, Foreshore, Jersey Deep Freeze Ltd, Jersey Electricity Retail, Phone Factory, Beyond Computers, Imagination.
The group also own a retail store, called the Powerhouse. The store sells home appliances, technology products and toys.
In 2014, half of the store was let to Sports Direct
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