Establishment of ETSA
The Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA) was created by South Australian Liberal and Country League (LCL) premier Tom Playford through the nationalisation of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company (AESC) in 1946. Before, then it was a private company (with headquarters in London), which held a monopoly over electricity supplies in Adelaide at the time. It was the company's refusal to use brown coal as advocated by Playford, even going to the extent of buying only boilers that used only black coal, that triggered the request from Playford for commonwealth funds to nationalise the company: Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley readily agreed. The LCL suffered a split in its ranks with regard to nationalisation, and the state legislation passed only with the support of ALP and independent members of parliament.
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