State Gas Supply Crisis

CCI Media statements

• Business and industry seeks answers from new gas crisis investigation
• Varanus report highlights WA's energy system shortcomings (10 Oct)
• Garnaut report confirms need for cautious approach to climate change scheme (1 Oct)
• Lessons to be learned from WA's failure to secure multi-billion dollar gas project (26 Sept)
• Lessons must be learnt from ongoing gas crisis (6 August)
• WA gas crisis far from over despite partial supply restored (4 August)
• Gas matchmaking service a step in the right direction (2 July)
• WA business and industry bracing for tough times: CCI survey (18 June)
• Information the key to help business respond to gas challenge (13 June)
• Gas outage hitting business hard: CCI survey (10 June)
• CCI helping to shape gas outage response (8 June)
• Need for state energy policy highlighted yet again (4 June)

CCI updates to members

• Gas crisis - update to members (18 July)
• Gas crisis - update to members (2 July)
• Gas shortage - update for members (20 June)
• Recent developments on State's gas outage (10 June)
• Chief Executive's message to members (8 June)

Updates from Alinta

Updates from Apache Energy

Updates from Independent Market Operator

Updates from Synergy

Updates from Office of Energy

Gas Supply Coordination Committee

• Information on energy supply management

Small business energy savings

• Tips

Help from Centrelink

Information about services / advice that is offered and provided to businesses affected by the gas outage:

• Financial Information Service seminars
• Financial Information Service

• In your home - turn off lights when you've left the room.
• Replace the light globes in your home with new energy efficient ones.
• Turn lights off as you leave room and set gas heaters on low settings.
• Turn off appliances when not in use, install energy efficient globes and take shorter showers
• Turn off office air conditioning. Proportionately, this uses a large amount of energy. At this time of the year, we should find that the ambient office temperature is quite workable without the need for air conditioning.
• Turn off electrical equipment such as photocopiers and computers when not in use for long periods. The equipment still uses a significant amount of electricity on standby.
• Shut down city office block lighting ASAP after close of business.