Powercor
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Powercor seeks new apprentices
CitiPower and Powercor are searching for 30 new apprentices to join the state’s largest in-house lineworker team that plays a critical role delivering power. The annual apprenticeship program offers candidates a chance to become lineworkers, cable jointers, substation electricians or meter technicans. Four-year apprenticeship positions are available across regional and metropolitan areas, including Bendigo, Maryborough…
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Update on power outages
CitiPower and Powercor crews are working to restore power to about 107,000 customers as a severe storm front pushes through Victoria. A combination of extreme temperatures, strong winds and thousands of lightning strikes are causing damage to poles, wires and other electrical infrastructure. Crews are responding to more than 400 different faults across western and…
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Reducing the risk of flooding
A permanent levee is being built at the Castlemaine zone substation as part of Powercor’s major program of work to reduce the risk of flooding affecting electricity supplies. Powercor crews have begun constructing a two-metre-high permanent levee on land just outside the zone substation site, near Campbells Creek. Work is expected to be completed by…
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Dicko blushes with pink pride
Gordon Dickeson has relinquished his bright pink locks and raised more than $8000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation Australia. The Kyneton identity was compelled to make ‘‘Dicko’s Pink and Trim’ pledge as his own partner battles the disease. Dicko has received loads of support for his fundraising campaign and thanks everyone for their generous donations…
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Dicko’s pink pledge
Well-known Kyneton local Gordon Dickeson has raised a few eyebrows this past week with a newly coloured shock of bright pink hair. It’s all for a good cause, however, as ‘Dicko’ champions breast cancer awareness with a fundraising campaign. It’s an issue close to the Powercor linesman’s heart, with his own partner currently battling the…
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Update on power outages in New Gisborne and Riddells Creek
Powercor is working to identify the cause of power outages being experienced by some customers in the New Gisborne, Riddells Creek and surrounding areas this week. Crews are conducting forensic patrols of more than 112 kilometres of powerlines to identify the cause of the outages. Any issues detected through the patrols will be immediately addressed.…
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Power outages cause identified
Powercor crews believe they may have found the cause of multiple power outages in Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shire. Yesterday, crews inspected and replaced a variety of items – lighting surge arrestors, fuses, insulators, and high-voltage leads – on seven high-voltage power poles along Martin Street South in Blackwood. After careful examination of these items, crews found an insulator…
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Multiple power outages under investigation
Powercor is using advanced technology to identify the cause of multiple power outages being experienced by some customers in the Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shire during the past fortnight. Forensic patrols of more than 260km of powerline are well advanced, with crews narrowing down the fault location to a 20km area between Blackwood and Trentham.…
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Santa touches down
Santa and his elves greeted more than 100 school children with Christmas gifts in Romsey last Thursday, delivered not by a sleigh but by a Powercor helicopter. The visit was a way to say thanks to the community, which has supported Powercor’s aerial vegetation inspection and vegetation cutting programs throughout the year. The helicopters have…
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Recruiting kicks off for annual power apprentice program
Recruitment for one of Victoria’s most sought-after apprenticeships has opened and applicants looking for a ‘high voltage’ career like no other are being encouraged to apply. Electricity distributor CitiPower and Powercor are looking to fill 15 new apprentice roles based at Ballarat, Bendigo, Horsham, Kyneton, Cobram, Maryborough, Ardeer and Burnley. The roles include line workers,…
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Storm over but event not ended
Macedon Ranges is expected to face repercussions from June’s destructive storm for the next month as initial clean-up continues.Woodend SES unit controller Kevin McNair warned “the bulk of the storm is over but the event has not ended”.The Woodend unit responded to almost 600 calls for storm assistance – doubling its yearly average in a…
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Storm ravages region
Power and communications cut for days, damaged property, fallen trees blocking roads, entire towns isolated and undrinkable mains water.This is the destruction from one of the worst storms to lash the Macedon Ranges region in years.Wind gusts in excess of 100km/h wreaked havoc across central Victoria last Wednesday and Thursday.Powercor crews worked to restore power…