❓ Mr Day inquires about power outages in Armadale and Gosnells since August 2006, seeking details on frequency, causes, and remediation efforts. The Minister for Energy provides a detailed response outlining the number of outages, their causes, and ongoing upgrade work to improve reliability.
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With reference to the continued power outages being experienced by residents in the Armadale and Gosnells areas, I ask -
(1) How many power outages (dates and times) have occurred in the Armadale area since August 2006?
(2) What is the cause of these power outages?
(3) How many power outages (dates and times) have occurred in the Gosnells area since August 2006?
(4) What is the cause of these outages?
(5) What action is being taken to remedy the situation?
(1) How many power outages (dates and times) have occurred in the Armadale area since August 2006?
(2) What is the cause of these power outages?
(3) How many power outages (dates and times) have occurred in the Gosnells area since August 2006?
(4) What is the cause of these outages?
(5) What action is being taken to remedy the situation?
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27 March 2007
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Minister for Energy
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27 days
The Minister for Energy has provided the following response: While Western Power is able to list outages by suburb, it is important to understand the electricity network is not suburb specific. An outage can affect just two properties or several thousand and its duration will differ for different customers, depending on whether they can be 'backfed' from other parts of the network. (1) Since August 2006 there have been 140 outages in the Armadale area. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different residents and numbers of residents each time. The Armadale area comprises of the suburbs Bedfordale, Brookdale, Champion Lakes, Forestdale, Illawarra, Karragullen, Kelmscott, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon, Roleystone, Seville Grove, Westfield and Wungong. These suburbs are supplied by eleven different feeder lines (major power lines). There is approximately 1,300 km of overhead line supplying customers in the City of Armadale. Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
While Western Power is able to list outages by suburb, it is important to understand the electricity network is not suburb specific. An outage can affect just two properties or several thousand and its duration will differ for different customers, depending on whether they can be 'backfed' from other parts of the network. (1) Since August 2006 there have been 140 outages in the Armadale area. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different residents and numbers of residents each time. The Armadale area comprises of the suburbs Bedfordale, Brookdale, Champion Lakes, Forestdale, Illawarra, Karragullen, Kelmscott, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon, Roleystone, Seville Grove, Westfield and Wungong. These suburbs are supplied by eleven different feeder lines (major power lines). There is approximately 1,300 km of overhead line supplying customers in the City of Armadale. Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(1) Since August 2006 there have been 140 outages in the Armadale area. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different residents and numbers of residents each time. The Armadale area comprises of the suburbs Bedfordale, Brookdale, Champion Lakes, Forestdale, Illawarra, Karragullen, Kelmscott, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon, Roleystone, Seville Grove, Westfield and Wungong. These suburbs are supplied by eleven different feeder lines (major power lines). There is approximately 1,300 km of overhead line supplying customers in the City of Armadale. Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
*The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
While Western Power is able to list outages by suburb, it is important to understand the electricity network is not suburb specific. An outage can affect just two properties or several thousand and its duration will differ for different customers, depending on whether they can be 'backfed' from other parts of the network. (1) Since August 2006 there have been 140 outages in the Armadale area. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different residents and numbers of residents each time. The Armadale area comprises of the suburbs Bedfordale, Brookdale, Champion Lakes, Forestdale, Illawarra, Karragullen, Kelmscott, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon, Roleystone, Seville Grove, Westfield and Wungong. These suburbs are supplied by eleven different feeder lines (major power lines). There is approximately 1,300 km of overhead line supplying customers in the City of Armadale. Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(1) Since August 2006 there have been 140 outages in the Armadale area. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different residents and numbers of residents each time. The Armadale area comprises of the suburbs Bedfordale, Brookdale, Champion Lakes, Forestdale, Illawarra, Karragullen, Kelmscott, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon, Roleystone, Seville Grove, Westfield and Wungong. These suburbs are supplied by eleven different feeder lines (major power lines). There is approximately 1,300 km of overhead line supplying customers in the City of Armadale. Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Customers in the Armadale area have experienced, on average, 5.2 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(2) The causes were as follows: Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Vehicles 18.4 % Planned Outages* 15.3%* Birds 15.2 % Unknown 12.9% Equipment failure 9.5% Wilful damage/vandalism 9.4% Lightning 7.7% Transmission failure 6.8% Trees 3.8% Other 1% *The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
*The high number of planned outages is associated with the upgrade work Western Power is doing in the area (see 5). (3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(3) There have been 202 outages in the Gosnells area since August 2006. These outages occurred in various parts of the network and consequently would have affected different customers and numbers customers each time. The Gosnells area comprises of the suburbs of Beckenham, Canning Vale, Gosnells, Huntingdale, Kenwick, Langford, Maddington, Martin, Orange Grove, Southern River and Thornlie. A total of 24 different high voltage feeder lines containing approximately 1,300 km of overhead line pass through the Gosnells area. Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Customers in the Gosnells area have experienced, on average, 4.6 outages. [See tabled paper no. ]. (4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(4) The causes of these outages are as follows: Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Transmission failure 21.3% Equipment failure 19.0% Bird 16.4% Planned Outage 15.4% Vehicles 7.8% Wilful damage 7.1% Unknown 6.3% Fire (not including pole top fires) 3.3% Wind (including wind borne debris) 2.5% Other 0.9% (5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
(5) Western Power has almost completed a $2.9 million upgrade of the Gosnells network, which supplies parts of Armadale as well. This upgrade included upgrading conductors, installing new automatic reclosers and moving existing reclosers to positions on the network where they will be more effective. This work has involved a number of planned outages. This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
This upgrade is associated with the recent construction and commissioning of a new zone substation at Southern River. The new zone substation was built to allow Western Power to transfer load from Gosnells and Canning Vale zone substations, thereby improving capacity and reliability throughout the area. The combined transmission and distribution works involved in commissioning this new substation total $10 million. Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
Three new feeder lines out of the Southern River Substation have recently been commissioned and a fourth will be in full use by the end of April 2007. This feeder line (Ranford Road Feeder) will have the greatest impact on the Armadale area. This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
This reinforcement and re-configuration work will reduce overloads, increase feeder line capacity and improve reliability. A further two stages of reinforcement work for the Gosnells network will be implemented over the next few years. An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
An upgrade of the Byford Network, which supplies parts of Armadale, was completed in Quarter Four 2006. This involved extending a new feeder line from the substation to the Armadale Shopping Centre, reinforcing and reconfiguring major overhead power lines in the northern half of the network, and some extensive underground cable installations. This has increased the capacity of the network to cope with growth in the area, as well as improve reliability. These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
These projects, not including future stages of the Gosnells work, represent capital expenditure of about $9 million.
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