spark infrastructure 49 % cheung kong infrastructure holdings and power assets holdings collectively 51 % industry infrastructure founded 1994 headquarters melbourne australia website http www.powercor.com.au powercor australia is an electricity distribution company that operates throughout western victoria and the western suburbs of melbourne . the company maintains and owns power lines substations and street lights and also manages the largest distribution network in victoria . it is said by the chief executive of powercor that powercor owns the most reliable electricity network in australia . powercor is also sister companies with i citipower who maintain the city of melbourne s cbd network and ii sa power networks who maintains the south australian network . network statistics edit as of september 2011 total line length 84 026 km area covered 150 000 km2 customers 730 273 zone substations 70 zone substation transformers 66kv to 22kv 137 distribution transformers 22kv to 240v 81 553 poles 535 941 31 865 customers supplied via single wire earth return rural grid wires underground 10.6 % 86 % classified as rural network availability 99.96 % 1 references edit bushfire mitigation strategy plan 2011 2012 pdf . powercor . retrieved 23 july 2012 . v t e energy in victoria coal fired power stations hazelwood loy yang yallourn gas fired power stations bairnsdale jeeralang laverton north longford mortlake somerton newport valley power hydroelectric banimboola blue rock dartmouth eildon eildon pondage mckay creek kiewa scheme rubicon scheme william hovell yarrawonga weir wind farms challicum hills macarthur mount mercer portland waubra list of wind farms solar concentrator proposed mildura bendigo shepparton cogeneration symex cogeneration project victoria harbour cogeneration project geothermal portland geothermal facility distributors inner melbourne citipower western suburbs western victoria powercor australia eastern northeastern suburbs eastern victoria ausnet services northwestern suburbs jemena southeastern suburbs mornington peninsula united energy retailers agl energy alinta energy australian power and gas click energy country energy dodo power & gas energyaustralia lumo energy momentum energy neighbourhood energy origin energy powerdirect powershop red energy simply energy generators pacific hydro solar systems regulators essential services commission australian energy market operator australian energy market commission australian energy regulator historical decommissioned power stations defunct utility companies state electricity commission gas and fuel corporation victorian power exchange nemmco vencorp list of power stations in victoria retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title powercor australia & oldid 698503453 categories electric power distribution network operators in australiahidden categories use australian english from may 2012all wikipedia articles written in australian englishuse dmy dates from december 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 january 2016 at 15 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view