Jersey Electricity Company

Jersey Electricity plc
Public limited company
Industry Energy
Founded April 1924[1]
Headquarters Jersey
Key people
 Geoffrey Grime, Chairman, Chris Ambler, CEO
Website www.jec.co.uk

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.

History

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

Group

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.

Retail

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Our history | Jersey Electricity". Jec.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
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