First Wind Farm Components Arrive
…To do this, convoys will need to travel across Porters Gap and along Niagara Road at Boyneside. In early August, two 200 tonne transformers were transported to the Powerlink electricity…
Substation Build Gets Underway
…a sealed access road, along with drainage channels to ensure any run-off will pass around the site into a dam March 4, 2018 A Powerlink electricity substation being built on…
Construction Starts On Wind Farm
…equivalent to taking 340,000 cars off the road. Work has already started to connect the wind farm to the grid. Queensland’s high voltage transmission provider Powerlink is building a new…
SES Invited To Apply For Grants
…groups to apply for grants to buy vital emergency equipment. Ergon and Energex, through parent corporation Energy Queensland, have joined forces with Powerlink to provide $200,000 in grants for SES…
Full Steam Ahead For Wind Farm
…wind turbines into Powerlink’s grid, will be energised on October 11 next year. Once it comes online, the first turbines should come into commission roughly three weeks later. If all…
Work To Start Soon On Wind Farm
…with AGL confirming a cost of less than $60 per MW/h,” Mr Pitt said. He said the arrangements for connection of the wind farm to Powerlink’s electricity grid were in…
Wind Farm Gets Planning Approval
…new Powerlink substation along the Western Downs to Halys 275kV transmission line built by Powerlink. AGL has submitted a request to the Department Of Energy for a power generation authority…
Power System Avoids Meltdown
…of homes in South East Queensland now have air conditioning, compared with 45 per cent in 2004. “Both Powerlink, Energy Queensland, Stanwell and CS Energy, along with other generators worked…
AGL Offers Neighbours Free Power
…In the meantime, AGL had submitted a connection agreement to Powerlink so that the wind farm’s energy output could be sent to the grid. It had also called tenders for…
Wind Farm Meeting Draws A Crowd
…are in the process of preparing tender documents for the wind farm, and recently reached an agreement with Powerlink to locate a 275kV power cable near the junction of Niagra…
$200,000 Boost For SES
…by Ergon Energy, Energex and Powerlink Queensland. Applications are now open for SES groups to buy specific equipment used in emergencies, including generators, emergency lighting equipment, chainsaws, pole saws, basket…
Unions Welcome Electricity Merger
…deliver network services in their respective regions.” Powerlink – which had been tipped to be included in rationalisation plans – has not been included in the merger. And power generators…
Powerful Boost For SES
Representatives form the State Government, the SES, Ergon Energy, Energex and Powerlink in Brisbane on Friday (Photo: Ergon) October 9, 2015 SES volunteers will benefit from a new sponsorship deal…
Power Companies To Take On State Debt
…– Ergon, Energex and Powerlink – are currently geared at an average debt-to-asset ratio of 55 per cent, but private sector power companies have an average gearing ratio of 80…
LNP Launches Petition ‘To Save Jobs’
…commitment to Queenslanders that there will be no forced redundancies in our plan to merge Ergon Energy, Energex and Powerlink. “We will work closely with the government-owned energy corporations, employees…
ACCC Chairman Worried
By Stanwell Merger Plan
…and wires” businesses, Powerlink, Energex and Ergon. Stanwell Corporation was merged with Tarong Energy – the operator of the Tarong and Tarong North power stations – on July 1, 2011….
Heat Sparks Record Power Use
…increased solar uptake will continue to push the peak demand later in the evening from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.” Powerlink Chief Executive Merryn York said Powerlink’s transmission network had reliably met…
Union Helps Cyclone Victims
…companies and contractors Powerlink, Bechtel, Zinfra, Electro Group Apprentices along with Energex and Ergon for materials and support, Coca-Cola Amatil for a generous supply of fresh drinking water, and of…
Ergon, Energex Employees
Also Reject Enterprise Deal
ETU Organiser Stuart Traill (Photo: CairnsBlog.Net) December 16, 2014 Electrical Trades Union and The Services Union members at Ergon and Energex have joined their colleagues at Powerlink in voting against…
Powerlink Workers Reject EBA
ETU Organiser Stuart Traill (Photo: CairnsBlog.Net) December 12, 2014 The Electrical Trades Union and The Services Union have praised Powerlink workers for rejecting a proposed Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. ETU spokesman…
