Safety and Training

Electricity distributor Powercor has launched a program to test the safety of the area’s energy network from bushfire risk. The...

Three of Australia’s energy market bodies have teamed up to manage the impact of COVID-19 on the energy sector. The...

The Australian energy industry has implemented contingency plans to maintain security of supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Energy...

by Andrew Dillon, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Networks Australia After a catastrophic summer bushfire season, Energy Networks Australia Chief Executive...

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has partnered with Monash University to launch the inaugural Zema Energy Studies Scholarship in...

AEMO and TransGrid have published a joint Project Assessment Conclusion Report (PACR), recommending critical short-term investment to increase the transfer...

Ausgrid has restored power to its customers following prolonged outages across NSW caused by wild weather across the state. The...

Energy Queensland has 1.7 million power poles and over 225,000km of overhead and underground powerlines across Queensland. Unfortunately, powerlines are...

United Energy has completed a two year trial of technology designed to protect powerlines from the effects of extreme weather...

CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy have rolled out the use of Virtual Reality (VR) programs as a training tool for...

The largest utility-scale battery to be connected to the Western Power electricity network has been transported to Kalbarri, where it...

The threat of cyber attack is very real, as energy utilities rapidly move to digitise their operations. As part of...

The Energy Security Board (ESB) has been tasked with providing advice on the implementation of interim measures to preserve reliability...

With the National Electricity Market about to come under significant pressure as the summer season kicks off, the Australian Energy...

Embedded networks serve hundreds and thousands of Australians who live and work in apartment buildings, shopping centres, retirement villages, caravan...

Renewable investments have sky-rocketed in the context of ambitious government targets; however, investments in systems, assets and markets that strengthen...

New measures designed to deal with misconduct in the electricity sector have now passed the Senate. The new legislation, which...

Australia is set to become the world’s largest gas exporter by 2020, yet the industry faces the ever-increasing threat of...

The Western Australian Government has invested in a first-of-its-kind training program to upskill energy utility workers to meet the demand...

Essential Energy has mobilised more than 150 personnel from across NSW to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses...

Industrial accidents should be a thing of the past, yet industrial occupations remain dangerous and complicated careers.  Occupations in utilities,...

Over the second half of October, almost 300 Darwin-based Power and Water Corporation employees will undertake a total of 900...

Under new legislation, introduced to Parliament by the Victorian Government, electrical line workers will soon be protected by a new...

The Victorian Government has banned a solar energy company from the Solar Homes program for at least two years, following...

The Independent Building and Energy regulator has released its final report into a March 2018 incident, which resulted in a...

Victorian Power Networks, operator of electricity distributors Powercor and CitiPower, was a finalist in the Victorian Training Awards, acknowledging its...

Energex and Ergon Energy are bringing the essential extensive technical and safety training required for working on Queensland’s electricity distribution...

Origin Energy has released a statement on the explosion at Mortlake Station.  Origin’s Mortlake Power Station, in western Victoria, experienced...

An explosion at the gas-fired Mortlake Power Station in Victoria has caused significant damage to a generator, taking the plant...

A Queensland Court of Appeal has determined to uphold a Supreme Court ruling to overturn state government regulation around the...