who we are
This was after the Suva City Council introduced Fiji's first public electricity supply with a 65 kilo watt generator driven by gas.
Then there were some privately owned power supplies at Levuka, Nadi, Sigatoka and Labasa.
As the pace of economic growth accelerated, power supplies became a priority and therefore a unified approach was the most efficient approach.
In 1966, FEA was tasked to generate and distribute electricity to the people of Fiji at the lowest possible cost, with a view to the overall development of the country.
Its core function is to generate, transmit, transform, distribute and sell energy either in bulk or to individual customers in any part of Fiji.
All independent electricity suppliers were brought under the FEA's wing. Five years after its establishment (1971), plans for a 10 megawatt diesel generating station to Vuda were announced. Demand for power was increased by 30 percent annually.
Vuda was the most ambitious project undertaken by FEA. By 1978, the SCC's electricity department which was the biggest and oldest was acquired by FEA.
After initially serving fewer than 2,500 customers, by the end of 2005, FEA now supplies electricity to more than 130,000 customers.
There is a 5 percent growth in demand for electricity supply every year now. Projections predicted a doubling in demand during the 1970s, fuel prices are escalating and hydro electricity was a feasible alternative to diesel power stations.
In 1972 ENEX of New Zealand prepared a detailed report, four years later the FEA commissioned Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners to prepare a 25 year power programme.
The Monasavu hydro electric scheme was a dominant feature.
The Monasavu cost was met through international and local funding and Government grants. The project is a dramatic testimony to a determination to increase Fiji's self sufficiency in a critical area of the economy.
From Monasavu, there are two 132 kilo volts lines (one to Vuda in the west and the other to Cunningham for Central). At these two points voltage drops down to 33kv at sub stations then down to 11kv to transformers. From there to 240 volts for domestic and 415 volts for industrial customers.
