Powercor
Power bills down following report
Colac and district residents and businesses will likely see reduced electricity bills from July under a new five-year distribution plan.
Outage spread across region
Thousands of Colac and district residents were briefly without power on the weekend after parts of trees fell on powerlines during blustery weather.
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.