#Australia

Australia: Queensland government pledged to tip $132 M into construction of a transmission line, which will link the renewables hub with the main grid.

Australia: Rob Stokes, the NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister, will give “critical” state significance to a $1 B plan to increase interstate grid connections to reduce the risks to electricity supplies in NSW.

Australia: Powerlink has commenced a $6 M maintenance project on a transmission line in Far North Queensland.

CWP Renewables has announced the start of construction of the 244 MW Bango Wind Farm, to be built 30 km north of Yass in the Southern Highlands region of NSW.

Australia: The substation and transmission line for Goldwind’s 144 MW Cattle Hill wind farm in Australia have been completed and energised.

$1 B CopperString powerline, the 1100 km, 275 kVA overhead, high-voltage electricity transmission line will connect the North West Minerals Province and Mount Isa.

Australia: Three Gold Coast substations are to receive $45 M worth of upgrades, with planning for another $8.5 M project also underway.

ESCO Pacific’s proposal for a 100 MW solar farm near West Wyalong received development approval and and is likely to begin construction by early 2020.

Global breakbulk and project heavy lift carrier AAL has delivered a 305-tone Toshiba transformer to the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm in Victoria.

Australia, New South Wales: An Australian transformer manufacturer Wilson Transformer has been awarded a contract to supply power transformers for the White Rock Wind Farm project near Glen Innes in New South Wales.

Australia, Perth: About 80 workers will lose their jobs at the ABB’s Malaga factory in Perth, which this time last year celebrated 60 years of transformer manufacturing in Western Australia.

Australia, Sydney: Two men have suffered burns after an explosion occurred at the electricity substation on Southdown Place in Airds in Sydney’s south west.

Australia has blocked the sale of the New South Wales electricity provider, Ausgrid to two Chinese companies citing security concerns.

Australia: A new plant based oil is being developed to replace petrochemicals in industrial products ranging from fuels and lubricants to special chemicals and plastics.

As part of leadership succession planning, ABB has appointed Tauno Heinola as Managing Director of ABB in Australia, effective 1 October 2016.

Australia, Melbourne: A substation transformer caught fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond yesterday, sending flames up to six meters into the sky.

Australia, the Gold Coast: The Gold Coast’s electricity grid will receive an $18 million (AUD 25 million) revamp ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Australia, Whitsunday Islands: The Whitsunday region in Queensland, Australia is on its way to having its first solar farm.

Australia, Victoria: The biggest single component of the Ararat wind farm, the USD 300 million (AUD 400 million) project in south-west Victoria, arrived to Australia from Shanghai and was travelling through Elmhurst last week on its way to the site.

Australia, Victoria: Two purpose-built transformers will arrive at the Ararat Wind Farm substation in south-west Victoria this week, marking a significant milestone for the USD 300 million (AUD 400 million) project.

Australia, New South Wales: A 140-metre prime mover carrying a 240-ton generator transformer bound for EnergyAustralia’s Mt Piper power station made its way through the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia on Saturday.

Australia, Perth: ABB has celebrated 60 years of transformer manufacturing in Western Australia at its Malaga factory.

Australia, Queensland: Powerlink has completed construction of the Yuleba North Substation in the North West Surat Basin, which will act as the central point for more than 200 kilometres of new high voltage transmission lines, supplying power to six gas processing facilities in Queensland.

Australia, Western Australia: ABB has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide a substation upgrade solution for a new power station being constructed by TransAlta in South Hedland, Western Australia.