RE: [Aus-soaring] SWER

[Kittel, Stephen W \(ETSA\)]

Geoffs description is very similar to the SA situation. With the exception you don't get the choice to keep it!   As for the maintenance/fire issues, it is true that the utility in SA has a sufficiently good idea where it's assets are to deal with these issues, but for SWERs (Which was the start of this thread) and other remote infrastructure near where outlandings are likely to occur, this is not GIS nor even electronically based (other than the drawings are now done on CAD systems rather than the old pen and ink). And no, the drawings aren't to a true scale, they are a cross between a scale drawing and a schematic.   Regards SWK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Kidd Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 6:49 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] SWER 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 ----- From: Scott Penrose To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. 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. Scott --  * - *  http://www.osdc.com.au - Open Source Developers Conference * - * Scott Penrose Open source developer http://linux.dd.com.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dismaimer: Open sauce usually ends up never coming out (of the bottle). Please do not send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Microsoft is not the answer. It's the question. And the answer is no. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ********************************************************************** This email and any file attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please tell us immediately by return email and delete the document. The information in this email expresses the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of ETSA Utilities. **********************************************************************

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