240 jobs to go at WA power company MORE than 200 workers are to be made redundant at state-owned West Australian energy company Horizon Power. Workers were told on Thursday that 130 jobs would be gone by Christmas, and another 110 staff would be out of work by June next year. Managing director Frank Tudor said factors including the slow-down in the mining industry in the north-west meant a major restructure was needed. "We have decided to look fairly radically at the way we conduct our business," Mr Tudor told Fairfax radio. It is a business-driven decision supported by government. Horizon employs 540 people, and supplies power to about 100,000 residents and 10,000 businesses in regional WA, including the Pilbara, Kimberley, Gascoyne, Mid West and southern Goldfields regions. Mr Tudor said he was confident that power supplies would not be affected by the job losses, with some people being able to reapply for some positions. "It will be predominantly office jobs and there will be very few jobs affected in the regions," Mr Tudor said. This is a program we can implement and not affect the safe, reliable, cost-effective delivery of electricity to the regional centres.