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Sep 15, 2026
Franziska CurranHOST
The answer is animals, which can nest in the equipment or come into contact with it in a way that causes an outage.
Franziska CurranHOST
In fact, Victorian transmission and distribution business AusNet says that animals account for more than 10% of the outages across its network, with possums being a particular problem.
Franziska CurranHOST
And it has established a dedicated $1.8 million annual animal proofing program that is doing things like putting rotating spinning tubes on power lines to stop animals gaining a foothold.
Franziska CurranHOST
And what happens is that when an animal steps onto one of these spinning tubes, it rotates the animal.
Chris EddyHOST
The council has also raised serious questions over unresolved basic servicing and emergency management plans for a proposed 350 worker accommodation facility in Balan.
Chris EddyHOST
CEO Derek Matten said the Council will continue to press AusNet and the Government to finalise those matters well ahead of construction.
Chris EddyHOST
In the meantime, the Premier, Ben Carroll, has ordered an independent assessment of Western Renewables Link costs, saying updated transparent costings are owed to Victorian consumers a decade after the project was first planned.
Chris EddyHOST
He confirmed that no compulsory acquisitions will occur while the assessment proceeds and with findings due to be made public by year's end.
Paul MurrayHOST
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Paul MurrayHOST
Nigel Farage standing by, right, which is a, a big win today, uh, for those farmers that have been trying to push back against AusNet, that giant, uh, uh, transmission cable that was gonna roll its way through parts of regional Victoria.
Paul MurrayHOST
Now previously, the government's had a steamroller approach to this.
Paul MurrayHOST
The government, because there's an election coming up, is now saying, "Well, we're gonna pause, we're gonna pause." There's only, of course, one side of politics, that being the opposition, who's saying they will not continue it, right? Don't fall for the pause, just, uh, get the clippers out.
Matt WilsonGUEST
And we had to put a new transformer on site.
Matt WilsonGUEST
So we had to project manage getting AusNet.
Matt WilsonGUEST
Can you imagine project managing AusNet? It's
Lauren CiconteHOST
got chills.
Lauren CiconteHOST
Wow.
49 MINS LATER
Pat SouthwellHOST
That was great.
Lauren CiconteHOST
But no, I actually don't think I have a huge update.
Lauren CiconteHOST
I know a lot of AusNet systems are going through, which is awesome.
Pat SouthwellHOST
And Dan Murphy's there.
Pat SouthwellHOST
Yeah, and across from the AusNet Yard.
Pat SouthwellHOST
I'm
Lauren CiconteHOST
a bit revved up about that.
1 HR 19 MINS LATER
Pat SouthwellHOST
TSA? It's like ESV.
Pat SouthwellHOST
End of the V. You're not one of us.
Pat SouthwellHOST
It's like me saying you work for AusNet.
Lauren CiconteHOST
I reckon I'm like very close to being on their payroll.
Paul GilbertGUEST
So it took two weeks, three weeks to get a grid approval.
Paul GilbertGUEST
AusNet were a challenge to work with and still are.
Paul GilbertGUEST
And we did not just the pre-approvals but we did the post, the meter change at the end as well.
Paul GilbertGUEST
And they would go wrong spectacularly.
26 MINS LATER
Paul GilbertGUEST
Wow.
Paul GilbertGUEST
Well, it was a bit of a fire sale.
Paul GilbertGUEST
And it was one person I ran into later at some training for AusNet for when DR was announced.
Paul GilbertGUEST
And she was the last employee, technically, for True Value Solar.
Ben DuxsonGUEST
And, and you can see people like David Hughes coming out now and- and, um, you know, a- and- and- and f- unfortunately it's, until you get skin in the game, and we were exactly the same, like, um, Western Renewable Link, I used to drive down there.
Ben DuxsonGUEST
They said, "Stop AusNet.
Ben DuxsonGUEST
Piss off AusNet towers." I didn't even know what it was about.
Ben DuxsonGUEST
So it come to my- my farm, and then you actually start understanding what it's about.
Agathe GrossGUEST
We have a lot of clients and partners, quite a few who have been on this podcast.
Agathe GrossGUEST
In Australia, we work for the likes of Powerlink, Energy Queensland, AusNet, United Energy, Electronet, Western Power, and then in New Zealand for Transpower, for World Networks, for Orion.
Agathe GrossGUEST
And then we're doing some capital projects for DT infrastructure at Boulder Creek, for Light Source BP at Kofi Park in New Zealand.
Agathe GrossGUEST
And so a lot of maintenance and then connecting assets to the grid.
25 MINS LATER
Agathe GrossGUEST
We've got Adventia.
Agathe GrossGUEST
We've got a few.
Agathe GrossGUEST
My boss used to be the CEO at AusNet.
Agathe GrossGUEST
She's had that kind of very long career in energy.