Powercor Australia is an Australian electricity distribution company that operates throughout western Victoria, and the western suburbs of Melbourne.
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Infrastructure |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
Area served | Victoria |
| Parent | Cheung Kong Holdings 51% Spark Infrastructure 49% |
| Website | http://www.powercor.com.au/ |
The company owns and maintains power lines, substations and street lights and also manages the largest electricity distribution network in Victoria.
Powercor is 51% owned by the Cheung Kong Holdings and 49% by Spark Infrastructure which also own Citipower, which maintains the city of Melbourne's CBD network, and SA Power Networks, which maintains the South Australian network.
Network statistics
editAs of September 2011:
- Total line length: 84,026 km
- Area covered: 150,000 km2
- Customers: 730,273
- Zone substations 70
- Zone substation transformers (66 kV to 22 kV): 137
- Distribution transformers (22 kV to 240 V): 81,553
- Poles: 535,941
- 31,865 customers supplied via single-wire earth return rural grid
- Wires underground: 10.6%
- 86% classified as 'rural'
- Network availability: 99.96%[1]
References
edit- ^ "Bushfire Mitigation Strategy Plan 2011-2012" (PDF). Powercor. Retrieved 23 July 2012.