Powercor Australia / SP AusNet / Powercor / REPLACEMENT WITH EXISTING TECHNOLOGY / Ergon Energy / Energy Safe Victoria / ABC / Network Regulation South Branch / /
Country
Australia / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Natural Disaster / Man-Made Disaster / Force Majeure / Reorganization / Person Communication and Meetings / Product Issues / Business Partnership / M&A / /
Holiday
Ash Wednesday / /
IndustryTerm
electricity poles / electricity assets / acceptable solution / electricity distributors coverage / steel conductors / electricity supply / electricity distribution networks / electricity distribution network / protection equipment / energy source / less associated infrastructure / fire starts involving electricity assets / electricity industry / asset management systems / electricity distribution price review / individual steel / safer technologies / distribution infrastructure technology / steel / electricity distribution assets / electricity consumers / electricity assets causing bushfires / safer distribution network / electricity infrastructure / Electricity travels / electricity distribution businesses / asset management / electricity distribution / electricity / protection devices / failed electricity assets / insurance costs / electricity industry experience / electricity distribution infrastructure / bushfire mitigation audit / /
NaturalFeature
Mt Hotham / /
Organization
State Electricity Commission of Victoria / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Bushfires Royal Commission / Victorian Government / State Government / Department of Primary Industries / Essential Services Commission / /
Person
Shane Breheny / Ken Gardner / Nicholas Hastings / Kim Griffith / Paul Adams / Chris Pattas / Marianne Lourey / Fearon / Jan Juc / Wayne McDonald / Esler Barber / Sinclair Knight Merz / /
Position
Executive Director / bare conductor / auditor / head / high-tensile conductor / CEO / fallen conductor / steel conductor / Professor / conductor / General Manager Network Services Group / steel and copper conductor / general manager / SWER conductor / chairman / Director / Control Engineer / head of the state safety regulator / general manager of Network Services Group / /
4 ELECTRICITY-CAUSED FIRE Victoria has a history of electricity assets causing bushfires. In 1969 and 1977 the failure of electricity assets— including the clashing of conductors, conductors contacting trees, and ineff