Roy Adair

Deputy Chair

Roy Adair, CEO

Hydro Tasmania

Roy Adair was appointed as CEO, and to the Board, of Hydro Tasmania on 21 June 2010. Prior to his appointment he had been Chief Executive of Senoko Power, Singapore’s largest electricity generator and retailer for six years and led the transformation of the business. A graduate economist and qualified accountant, he has extensive international experience of running electricity businesses in merchant risk environments.

A former Director with Coopers & Lybrand, he was actively involved in the liberalisation of the UK electricity supply industry from where he joined PowerGen, one of the two large UK thermal generators. He occupied a number of senior management positions with PowerGen, including Managing Director, PowerGen Renewables, and became Chief Executive of Yallourn Energy in 1996 following the successful acquisition of this Australian generation company by the PowerGen-led consortium.

At Yallourn he figured prominently in the early development of the National Electricity Market in Australia and was founding Chairman of the National Generators Forum. Prior to joining Senoko, Roy was also Chief Operating Officer of Pacific Hydro.

A former Director of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia, he is currently a Director of Roaring 40s, Chairman of Momentum Energy Pty Ltd and a Director of the Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies Pty Ltd.