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We work tirelessly in all conditions to keep you connected. Because what’s essential to you, matters to us.

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We all know power is essential to our everyday lives. From the first coffee in the morning, to Friday night footy under lights, to state-of-the-art healthcare – it’s all powered by us. Everyday over 1.1 million homes and businesses depend on us to keep the power connected so that when it’s needed, it’s there.

CitiPower

As the electricity distributor for the Melbourne CBD and inner suburbs, CitiPower supplies more than 330,000 customer connections. And with Melbourne expected to become Australia’s biggest city in the coming years, we’ve got our work cut out for us, performing essential work to maintain and upgrade more than 7,500km of network.

Powercor

Powercor supplies electricity across 64% of Victoria. Our work ranges from maintaining over 75,000km of powerlines across the networks, to extending and upgrading the network to meet the essential power needs of our customers now and into the future.

We’re essential to hundreds of thousands of households, more than 11,000 commercial and industrial business and over 100,000 small businesses.

Essential for your home

“We’re from Powercor and are working on a number of network upgrades to power your home.”
Ben Lakin, Lineworker

For your home
Essential to network reliability

“At CitiPower we’re down here maintaining over three thousand kilometres of cable.”
Bodie O’Sullivan, Cable Jointer

About network reliability
Essential to network safety

“We’re upgrading a number of local powerlines across our network to power your home.”
Nick Quedley, Cable Jointer

About network safety

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