Trevor St Baker

Trevor Charles St Baker is an Australian businessperson with interests in power station and fuel supply development. He is a director of the St Baker Energy Trust and a chair of Sunset Power International (trading as Delta Electricity). He is also a founder and a deputy chair of ERM Power Limited.

Career

Early career St Baker worked in planning and leadership roles within New South Wales and Queensland GOC electricity utilities during the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on the establishment of Queensland's first power station planning department in 1971 and its first Energy Resources Division in 1975. The Division was responsible for deregulating power station fuel procurement in Queensland. Steaming coal developments were facilitated at Blackwater and Curragh and long-term coal procurement contracts were secured to supply power stations at Gladstone, Tarong, Callide B and Stanwell. and has mentored and supported Australian founders of new technology businesses entering the energy sector. Products under development by its trustees include: flat printed light, printed solar photo-voltaic cells and printed energy storage, cloud-enabled intelligent controllers and powermetric customer access devices and electric vehicle fast chargers. Trevor is a Director of six of the companies in which StBEIF is invested, and acts as chairman of the two most advanced: Tritium Pty Ltd (which produces electric vehicle charging stations) and Southern Cross Printed Electronics Pty Ltd (which is developing printed LED lighting for various applications). The company is managed by St Baker (Director), Tony Irwin (Technical Director), Robert Pritchard (chairman) and Barrie Hill (managing director).

Other roles St Baker ran as a National Party candidate for the Queensland electorate of Dickson in the 1993 Australian election.

He chaired the National Generators’ Forum for three years, ending in 2013. He was a non-executive director of the Queensland Resources Council prior to 2015 and remains on the board of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia. St Baker co-founded St Baker Wilkes Indigenous Educational Foundation Limited (and acts as its chair) and the St. Baker Family Philanthropic Trust.

Personal life St Baker lives in St Lucia, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.

Net worth The Australian Financial Review assessed St Baker's net worth as 1.22 billion in the 2023 Rich List. first achieved in the 2021 Rich List.

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