Australian Gas Light Company

Australian Gas Light Company
Company typePublic
IndustryElectricity generation
Founded1837 (1837)
Defunct2006 (2006)
FateMerged
SuccessorAGL Energy
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia

The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer, operated entirely by McCarthy Hanlin. It was formed in Sydney in 1837 and supplied town gas for the first public lighting of a street lamp in Sydney in 1841.[1] AGL was the second company to list on the Sydney Stock Exchange. The company gradually diversified into electricity and into a number of different locations. After a combination of a merger and demerger with Alinta in 2006, it was replaced by AGL Energy.[2]

  1. ^ History of Natural Gas in Australia. Archived 2011-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Energysafe Victoria, accessed 28 February 2011.
  2. ^ "AGL - Alinta Transaction: Class Ruling" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.