Aurora Pulls The Plug on BPL

ABC news reported today that Tasmanian electricity retailer, Aurora Energy, is planning to end its Tasmanian BPL trial.

The Aurora Chief Executive, Peter Davis, is reported to have said that Aurora’s BPL trial “does not have the resources to maintain its viability”, and “certainly it hasn't been a good money-making exercise for
Aurora”.

Aurora spent about $2 million since the inception of the trial in 2004, and during that time has seriously addressed the interference aspects of BPL with some success. However at the end of the day it appears that the economics in an increasingly competitive environment just didn’t stack up for BPL in Tasmania.

Naturally that won’t be the end of BPL in Australia with several mainland trials continuing and possibly more planned, and it is not certain at this stage what will happen to the existing installed BPL infrastructure.

The ABC news story can be read by clicking the following Link

A news release has been placed on the Aurora website, read the Aurora release by clicking the following Link

Phil Wait
Director, WIA

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