Autonomous system
AS9463 ESSENTIALENERGY-AS-AP - ESSENTIAL ENERGY
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Essential Energy
enterprise government legacy
AS9463 (ESSENTIALENERGY-AS-AP) is held by Essential Energy, the New South Wales Government-owned corporation that builds, operates and maintains the electricity distribution network across roughly 95% of NSW plus parts of southern Queensland and northern Victoria. It is a utility, not a telecommunications provider: the network exists to run the company, not to sell connectivity.
What it's used for
RIS observes 9 IPv4 prefixes totalling 5,120 addresses and 4 BGP neighbours. No IPv6 is announced. Every prefix falls inside one contiguous run of 202.74.128.0 through 202.74.155.255 — a single legacy Australian allocation carved into /22s, /23s and /24s and announced piecewise.
The four upstreams are the most informative number here. An enterprise that multihomes across four providers on only 5,120 addresses is buying availability, not capacity, and that is exactly what you would expect from an operator whose network underpins physical grid infrastructure: substations, SCADA and field systems spread across roughly 582,000 square kilometres of regional NSW, where a single carrier outage cannot be allowed to isolate operational systems. The deaggregation into small blocks fits the same picture — distinct blocks for distinct operational functions and sites.
There is no eyeball scale, no wholesale peering fan-out, and no hosting footprint. Every address here serves Essential Energy's own corporate and operational technology estate.
Notable
- The organisation was rebranded from Country Energy in March 2011 as part of NSW Government electricity reforms, so older references to this address space may still carry the Country Energy name.
- The utility's own scale (about 200,000 km of power lines and 1.4 million poles serving 800,000-plus customers) is wildly out of proportion to its 5,120 routable addresses — a good reminder that announced address count measures internet exposure, not organisational size.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9463- Registry name
- ESSENTIALENERGY-AS-AP
- Registrant
- ESSENTIAL ENERGY
- Abuse contact
- heydon.howard@essentialenergy.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-01-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS9463
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 35 naming AS9463
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere