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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