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I can tell you the position re ownership in southern
NSW where Country Energy is the power provider, as I have recently built a power
supply to a new house on a farm.
The owners tells them where they
want the LT power located, they decide the route and build the HT
line and transformer as close to that as is technically possible.
The owner pays for it.
The owner then has 2 options. They either opt to
continue ongoing ownership and ongoing maintenance of the HT lines and trany or
hand over ownership to Country Energy and Country Energy provide all ongoing
maintenance of those items. Almost everyone takes the latter
option.
Country Energy appear to be well aware of the exact
location of all items over which they have maintenance responsibility because
they also have liability if those fail and start fires or if trees get too close
to lines etc.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:23
PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] SWER
There are _no_ private SWER lines in SA. The utility owns
the SWER line up to the transformer pole at the house, the transformer,
the LV feed into the house and the meter.
(There are tens of thousands of kilometres of SWER in
SA)
That might be true, but there are
non SWER lines - ie: No Transformer - but still just a wire, makes no
difference when you hit them - that are private.
I might not know the right words, we just call them - power lines
:-)
In Victoria (Western District) my cousin just put in power to their house
(over 10K into their property). Power company would only pay to the edge, and
then the rest is up to them, cost them over $30,000 to get it installed, and
it is theirs, and theirs to maintain. So that is 10K of power lines in Vic
alone that I know of that are private.
Council recently sent us a letter in Panton Hill saying that we have to
maintain our own power lines once they are in the property, and up to the
first pole the council and utility provider (depending on the circumstance)
will help with trees etc.
Granted, above is very anecdotal evidence.
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