Kingsford to Randwick Cable Project
Community information sessions
Thursday 5 April, 6pm to 8pm – The Juniors Kingsford
Tuesday 10 April, 6pm to 8pm – The Randwick Club
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Tonight’s session:
• Introduction to project team
• Overview of Ausgrid
• Project need
• Planning for the cable replacement
• Timeline
• Construction
• Questions, comments and feedback
Overview of Ausgrid
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Ausgrid’s electricity network
• Purpose is to deliver safe and
reliable electricity to our customers
• 1.6 million customers - households
• Network covers 22,275 sq. km.
– 30,000 substations
– 48,000km of power lines and
– 500,000 power poles
• Building our network today would
cost an estimated $38 billion
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Overview of the electricity network
Generation Transmission Distribution Consumption
Local generation
Ausgrid
Project need
Substation – Rose Bay
Substation - Bondi
Substation - Randwick
Substation - Kingsford
Substation - Maroubra
Substation - Paddington
Substation - Waterloo
Substation - Alexandria
Substation - Mascot
Substation - Botany
Substation - Double Bay
Ausgrid’s Eastern Suburbs network
Substation - Matraville
Existing cables supplying substation in Randwick
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Related Project
Substation - St Marks Road, Randwick
Substation - Anderson Street, Kingsford
Planning the cable replacement
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How do we plan our projects?
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What have we done so far?
• Desktop route analysis
• Preliminary site investigations
• Stakeholder discussions
• Development of a preferred cable route
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Desktop route analysis
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Preliminary investigations & stakeholder discussions
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Preliminary investigations & stakeholder discussions
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Preliminary investigations & stakeholder discussions
Light Rail
11kV LTs
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Preliminary investigations & stakeholder discussions
Light Rail
11kV LTs
New 132kV Cable
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Preferred cable route
Timeline
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Project and community engagement timeline
Construction
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Construction Process
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Typical cable trenching to install plastic pipes
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Typical temporary
restoration streets
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Typical cable pulling work
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Typical permanent
restoration of impacted
areas of streets
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Questions, comments and feedback