Electrical Contractors

Support for Essential Connections Portal.

Essential Energy will be hosting opt-in support sessions for Level 2 ASPs and Electrical Contactors with questions relating to the Essential Connections Portal. Sessions will run for 1 hour – please drop in anytime, you can ask a quick question or stay as long as you choose.

Click the ‘Register here’ link for the session that suits you. Tip! Save into your calendar or note down the joining details (Meeting ID and passcode).

What do you need to do?

1. Ensure you are registered to attend the support sessions.
2. Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

What is Happening?

To minimise disruption to customers during the Christmas / New Year period, we’ll cease scheduling planned outages with a customer impact from 21 December 2024 until 6 January 2025.  

Our Contestable Works office will also be closed from 21 December 2024, with business resuming as normal from 6 January 2025. During this period, minimal Essential Connections Portal cases/enquires/emails/documentation or Asset Labels will be processed.

What do you need to do?

1. Review your planned interruption schedule for the dates above and work with your nominated Local Depot Switching Resource to reschedule where required.
2. Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action on Monday 21 October 2024 and Tuesday 22 October 2024 in the form of 24 hour bans, one (1) hour Work Stoppages.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action on Saturday 19 October 2024 and Sunday 20 October 2024, in the form of 24 hour bans, one (1) hour Work Stoppages.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

What is happening?

Essential Connections has been updated to include a Standard Connection Application category 'New Connection for Load without NMI'.

This category is only to be to used as part of a standard connection for load that requires network augmentation where a National Metering Identifier (NMI) is not available at the time of starting the design.

Standard connections using ‘New Connection for Load without NMI’ must provide a NMI prior to connecting any related assets. The NMI should be submitted to the Network Assurance Facilitator during the construction start-up meeting.

Note: If you choose ‘New Connection for Load without NMI’ for your connection project and you were not eligible, you will need to submit a new application using the correct application category.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action on Wednesday 16 October 2024, Thursday 17 October 2024 and Friday 18 October 2024 in the form of 24 hour bans, one (1) hour Work Stoppages.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action on Monday 14 October 2024 and Tuesday 15 October 2024 in the form of 24-hour bans, one (1) hour Work Stoppages.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action commencing on Saturday 12 October 2024 and Sunday 13 October 2024.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

As per our communications from 6 August 2024, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) provided notice to Essential Energy of its intention to commence protective industrial action effective from 8 August 2024.

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has notified Essential Energy of further proposed industrial action commencing on Friday 11 October 2024 in the form of 24 hour bans, one (1) hour Work Stoppages and changes to the performance of work.

Potential Impacts

The planned industrial action is likely to create unavoidable disruptions for ASPs, contractors and customers through the possible postponement of planned work. ASPs will receive notice of planned work being postponed on the morning of the job. Notice will be provided through a phone call or email that morning.

Any job that is postponed will need to be resubmitted via the Essential Connection Portal. For projects not being administered via the Essential Connections Portal, you will need to complete and submit a ‘Request for Planned Outage’ form CEOP6013 via contestableworks@essentialenergy.com.au.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.

Essential Energy employees have had the opportunity to vote on an Enterprise Agreement offer that included:

• an industry-leading 15 per cent pay increase over three years
• a one per cent increase to superannuation
• an upfront payment of $5,000 and significant enhancements to allowances, wellbeing benefits, leave improvements and other conditions.

Essential Energy, the combined unions and bargaining representatives have been informed that a majority of the eligible employees who voted, did not support the proposed Enterprise Agreement.

Next steps

Essential Energy will schedule further bargaining meetings with the combined unions and bargaining representatives. We will continue to bargain in good faith and progress bargaining in a constructive and efficient manner for the benefit of employees, customers and the NSW community.

Disappointingly, Essential Energy expects the industrial action driven by the Electrical Trades Unions (ETU) and Mining and Energy Union (MEU) to continue across regional, rural and remote NSW, deliberately impacting customers and small businesses through unpredictable cancellations of planned outages that have a direct impact on the day-to-day activities of the NSW community.

What do you need to do?

Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.