Bushfire Mitigation Plan
Under our Bushfire Mitigation Plan, we manage assets and risks that could cause fires due to:
- Surface contamination of insulators combined with moisture resulting in electrical tracking and potentially leading to pole or cross arm fires
- failure or malfunction of network devices such as surge arresters and expulsion drop out fuses
- contact between vegetation and the electricity network
- bird or animal or third-party contact with electricity assets
- failure of line hardware (electrical and mechanical)
- conductor failures
Natural disasters such as bushfires, floods or extreme weather events may also trigger one or many of these causes of ignition risk.