Re: ETSA $1.5 Billion Infrastructure upgrade
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:37 pm
yep, Port Rd would certainly be a fantastic boulevard with the stobie poles gone...crawf wrote:Agreed, Port Road especially should be a top priority
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yep, Port Rd would certainly be a fantastic boulevard with the stobie poles gone...crawf wrote:Agreed, Port Road especially should be a top priority
While they're at it, they should resurface and realign the road, improve stormwater drainage and make better use of the median space. Some Anzac Boulevard-type lights would be nice too.Wayno wrote:yep, Port Rd would certainly be a fantastic boulevard with the stobie poles gone...crawf wrote:Agreed, Port Road especially should be a top priority
Reinforcement ? Darn pen pushers, the word is redundancy!Xaragmata wrote: Underground cable installation in Port Road Hindmarsh, for Adelaide Central Reinforcement Program (electricity):
They may have been having a laugh - ACRP is an anagram of CRAP.fabricator wrote:Reinforcement ? Darn pen pushers, the word is redundancy!Xaragmata wrote: Underground cable installation in Port Road Hindmarsh, for Adelaide Central Reinforcement Program (electricity):
There isn't really any for the CBD, one substation supplies most of the power, if its 275kv feeder fails so does the two types of high voltage cables from that area to the CBD. End result power cuts or brownouts as Dry Creek is too distant to supply all the power needed.
SOUTH Australia has the capacity to become the nation's green-energy engine room, because of its potential for wind power projects, experts say.
An economic feasibility study by a Macquarie Capital-led consortium shows SA could almost double its energy-generation capacity through expansion of wind power alone - and sell the excess to the eastern states.
Three wind zones on Eyre Peninsula and one in the state's north with the combined capacity to deliver 30 per cent of Australia's renewable-energy target have been identified in the Green Grid study.
It shows a simple federal regulatory change would unlock billions of dollars in investment to expand infrastructure capacity and deliver large volumes of green SA power across the border to the eastern states.
The changes required would include making households in the eastern states pay a bigger share of the cost of building the infrastructure required to transport power to them.
The study found carrying power from sites identified near Elliston, Cleve, Port Lincoln and the Upper Spencer Gulf city of Port Augusta would require construction of one new powerline and the major upgrade of another.
This would cost $613 million would be spent on a new powerline connecting Elliston and Port Augusta.
Another $840 million would be spent to dramatically boost capacity of an existing line between Port Augusta and Heywood in Victoria.
SA households meet most of the cost of transmitting power from here to users interstate. Historical market regulations have emphasised state-by-state charges which place the payment burden on the state which houses the transmission infrastructure.
Experts say major reform and investment in the short term would ultimately lead to lower household bills than the existing ad-hoc system of progressive upgrades.
Under the proposed plan, $4.5 billion in investment would be rolled out between 2015 and 2018. Of that, $1.8 billion would be spent in SA, resulting in 1400 construction jobs. It is estimated a further 1600 indirect jobs would be created during the construction phase and 266 ongoing jobs would be delivered.
The report was commissioned by the State Government and the state's four major energy firms - Origin Energy, Pacific Hydro, Transfield Services and Acciona Energy - and have indicated interest in developing the infrastructure.
Premier Mike Rann said he expected an SA wind hub could provide a major contribution to meeting national renewable energy targets and would build momentum for regulatory reform.
"This is one of the most exciting investment opportunities for South Australia that we expect the private sector to grab with both hands," he said.
"I am pleased that four internationally experienced wind energy companies have already expressed great interest in the project.
"It will require a change to the federal regulations, but I expect the release of this report will accelerate the decision-making timetable for the changes required, given the national economic and environmental significance of this project."
Mr Rann said the report was evidence renewable energy could become one of the state's biggest industries, alongside defence and mining.
Federal legislation demands the nation's renewable energy proportion be lifted to 20 per cent by 2020. "As a state, we want to capitalise on that target," Mr Rann said.
Mr Rann said development regulations, tax breaks and open space for wind farms made SA more attractive than other states for renewable-energy investment.
SA has set a state-based target of achieving one third of its power generation from renewable energy by 2020.
"This project would see that target exceeded by 2015," Mr Rann said.
The Tower segments are made at Islington, everything else including the electrical hardware installed into the towers themselves arrives in shipping containers. The workshop is building a couple of new locomotives at the moment,rev wrote:On Churchill Road at Islington workshops they have the wind turbines in bits lying around, often see them moving them northwards up Churchill road with police escort.
Only the 'tower' parts seem to remain now though, blades and other bits are gone.
Apologies for the bump - anyone know the original purpose of this building on the Port Rd median strip? ==> google mapcrawf wrote:Found this concept plan for Port Road.
http://www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/webda ... _plans.pdf
The aim of the project is to transform Port Road into a grand boulevard by creating wetlands and removing those ugly stobie poles. Looks good