Powercor
Strange sight in the hills
A giant robotic “Spider” has been scaling the hills behind Wye River as part of Powercor’s work to support the introduction of NBN internet in the area.
Choppers sweep Otways powerlines this week
Two helicopters will fly over the Colac region over the coming week as Powercor inspects vegetation around the region’s powerlines.
Colac blackout disruption
A power outage in Colac left more than 200 businesses and homes without power temporarily.
Drones zoom over Otways
Powercor will trial drones in the Otways as a new way of inspecting poles and powerlines in hard-to-reach areas of the region in the next two weeks.
Power infrastructure upgrades start
Powercor will soon begin a round of upgrades to south-west Victoria’s electricity networks, including installation of bushfire prevention mechanisms to its infrastructure. The electricity distributor will begin the second phase of its REFCL rollout scheme soon, starting at its Terang substation, before upgrading networks at stations including Colac by April 2021. REFCL – Rapid Earth […]
Fire settlement worth $17.5M
The Supreme Court has released the details of a $17.5-million settlement owed to victims of the 2018 St Patrick’s Day fires.
POWER DISRUPTION: Power concerns on fire-ban day
A Colac district resident says Powercor should have cancelled yesterday’s planned power outage in the Otways because it was a total fire ban day.
Lightning cuts electricity and causes Otways fires
THOUSANDS of Colac and district residents were without power for up to two days after a lightning storm swept the region and damaged powerlines and transformers.