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, and the western suburbs of

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. The company owns and maintains power lines, substations and street lights and also manages the largest electricity distribution network in Victoria. Powercor is 51% owned by the

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and 49% by Spark Infrastructure which also own Citipower, which maintains the city of

's CBD network, and

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, which maintains the

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n network.

Network statistics

As of September 2011: * Total line length: 84,026 km * Area covered: 150,000 km² * Customers: 730,273 * Zone substations 70 * Zone substation transformers (66 kV to 22 kV): 137 * Distribution Ttransformers (22 kV to 240 V): 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%

References

{{EnergyVictoria Electric power distribution network operators in Australia