Russell Pendlebury
Russell has more than 25 years’ experience in the energy sector in commercial and policy roles across electricity and gas markets, renewables development and network regulation.
Russell has extensive experience of policy development within the Australian energy landscape as an Economics Director at the Australian Energy Markets Commission, where he helped to lead a number of key reforms looking at gas and electricity networks, changes to wholesale market operation, the integration of renewable gases in gas markets and reviews of the retail electricity sector.
Russell has undertaken extensive investment and market analysis for large transactions, asset developments and commercial negotiations over a career within the wholesale and trading and corporate development functions at Origin Energy.
In a previous role as a Technical Director at Jacobs, Russell has led a number of projects looking at investment and policy issues in the operation of wholesale electricity markets, networks and decarbonisation across the energy sector.
Russell joined Energy Networks Australia in June 2025.