Infobox power transmission line name Basslink photo caption map country Australia state province coordinates Coord 38 15 45 S 146 36 29 E type landmark name LoyYang Static Inverter Plant br Coord 38 24 ... no Basslink is a high voltage direct current HVDC cable link crossing Bass Strait , connecting the Loy ... National Grid plc . On 1 December 2005, electrical power flowed across Basslink for the first time ... www.abc.net.au news newsitems 200604 s1626623.htm Power flows through Basslink. 29 04 2006. ABC News ... subsidiary of Temasek Holdings Temasek , completed the acquisition of Basslink with a total enterprise value of A 1.175 billion. Overview Basslink is a High voltage direct current Monopole and earth return ... www.rttnews.com sp breakingnews.asp?date 07 31 2007&item 71&vid 0 National Grid To Sell Basslink ... in Tasmania. The pylons of Basslink are of an unusual type. They have two asymmetric crossbars ... farm1.static.flickr.com 21 33596492 2efbddfb7e.jpg ref Communications cable The Basslink cable also ... accessdate 2007 07 14 ref The Basslink fibre between Loy Yang and Georgetown went into operational testing in April 2009 ref cite press release title Basslink Telecoms on track for June launch publisher Basslink Telecoms url http www.basslink.com.au home fileadmin templates MediaArticles ... title Internode first ISP to cross Bass Strait with Basslink publisher Internode url http www.internode.on.net news 2009 07 142.php accessdate 2009 07 07 ref Basslink Telecoms was officially launched ... Stephen Conroy and Basslink CEO Malcolm Eccles. ref http www.basslink.com.au home fileadmin templates MediaArticles Media Release Basslink launch 160709.pdf Basslink launch ref Sites LoyYang ... Plant References Reflist External links GeoGroupTemplate http www.basslink.com.au home Basslink Site ...?objectID 102 http www.digitaltasmania.org get basslink going Get the Basslink Fibre Going http www.usa.siemens.com ... Basslink ru Basslink ... more details
CitySpring Infrastructure Trust CitySpring owns four utility assets, namely City Gas and SingSpring in Singapore, and Basslink Interconnector and Basslink Telecoms in Australia. Category Utility companies of Australia Category Companies of Singapore Australia company stub Singapore company stub ... more details
The Connect Tasmania Core is the name used by the Government of Tasmania to refer to a fibre optic communications network linking all major cities of Tasmania to Victoria Australia Victoria and hence the rest of Australia . The government intends to offer access to the network in order to facilitate a more competitive telecommunications industry. ref cite web url http www.tenders.tas.gov.au domino dtf dtf.nsf v telco home title Telecommunications tenders publisher Government of Tasmania Department of Treasury and Finance Tasmania date 2006 09 07 accessdate 2006 12 13 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref Components TasGovNet TasGovNet is the name of the on island backbone. It is 420 km long and links the major cities of Burnie, Tasmania Burnie , Devonport, Tasmania Devonport , Launceston, Tasmania Launceston , and Hobart . It also links George Town, Tasmania George Town , where it is intended to connect to the fibre optic cables that were laid with the Basslink submarine electricity cable. ref cite news url http www.itwire.com content view 5294 127 title Telstra s Tasmanian monopoly about to end publisher ITWire date 2006 08 16 accessdate 2006 12 13 ref The fibre was built by private company Tas21 before being purchased by the Government of Tasmania state government in 2003 for Australian dollar A 23 million. ref cite web url http www.go.tas.gov.au telecommunications broadbandactionplan jun05.htm tasgovnet title Tasmanian Government Broadband Action Plan publisher Government of Tasmania Department of Premier and Cabinet Tasmania date June 2005 accessdate 2006 12 13 ref Basslink fibre connector The trans Bass Strait segment of the network is the submarine fibre optic cable which was laid alongside the Basslink HVDC electrical cable. It will connect to the TasGovNet cable at George Town, Tasmania George Town . Partners The Tasmanian Research and Education Network TREN intends to use the TasGovNet and Basslink fibre as part of a network to link major educati ... more details
Infobox company name Transend Networks logo Image Logo TransendNetworks.png 150px caption type Government owned corporation State government owned traded as fate predecessor successor foundation Start date 1998 07 01 df y founder defunct End date YYYY MM DD location city Lenah Valley, Tasmania location country Australia locations area served key people industry Utility products services Electric power transmission revenue operating income net income assets equity owner Government of Tasmania num employees parent divisions subsid homepage URL www.transend.com.au footnotes intl The electrical transmission company Transend Networks Pty Ltd was formed by the disaggregation of the Hydro Electric Commission in Tasmania , Australia , on 1 July 1998. This resulted in the division of the government owned department into three new state owned enterprises Hydro Tasmania which generates the power, Transend Networks which transmits it across the state, and Aurora Energy , the retail arm, which sells and distributes it to customers. This disaggregation was in anticipation of Tasmania joining the National Electricity Market NEM which took place on 1 May 2005. Market entry allows Basslink , a Market Network Service Provider, to connect Tasmania to the National electricity grid on the Australian mainland. Basslink commissioning was completed in June, 2006. Transend Networks is a regulation regulated business which receives its revenue cap from the Office of the Tasmanian Energy Regulator OTTER . External links http www.transend.com.au Transend Networks http www.energyregulator.tas.gov.au Office of the Tasmanian Energy Regulator EnergyTasmania Category Companies based in Tasmania Category Government owned companies of Tasmania Category Monopolies Category Power companies of Australia Category Electric power transmission system operators ... more details
Dural, N.S.W. Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 1877058270 ref Energy See also Basslink The Basslink HVDC ... fiber dark fibre capacity has also been available on the Basslink HVDC cable. Other submarine cables ... Bell Bay small Basslink small First electrical distribution cable Popular culture See also Bass Strait ...?objectID 102 title The Basslink Project work National Grid cite web url http www.atlantic ... more details
Infobox Australian place type town name George Town state tas image caption latd 41 latm 06 lats longd 146 longm 49 longs pushpin label position top postcode 7253 pop 4,266 2006 Census ref name Census2006Y poprank est 1804 timezone Australian Eastern Standard Time AEST utc 10 timezone dst Australian Eastern Daylight Time AEDT utc dst 11 lga George Town Council stategov Division of Bass state Bass fedgov Division of Bass Bass location1 Low Head, Tasmania Low Head dist1 6 location2 Bell Bay, Tasmania Bell Bay dist2 6 location3 Hillwood, Tasmania Hillwood dist3 23 location4 Launceston, Tasmania Launceston dist4 50 George Town is one of the larger towns in north east Tasmania , on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Tamar River, Tasmania Tamar River . At the 2006 Census in Australia census , George Town had a population of 4,266. ref name Census2006Y Census 2006 AUS id UCL606400 name George Town Urban Centre Locality accessdate 13 November 2011 quick on ref It is the regional centre of the George Town Council Local Government Areas in Australia Local Government Area . George Town is one of the oldest European settlements in Australia. It was first settled in 1804 , ref http www.georgetown.tas.gov.au site page.cfm?u 447 George Town Council History ref two years before the now much more important city of Launceston, Tasmania Launceston . George Town was well known as the Tasmanian port for the now defunct SeaCat Tasmania fast passenger ferry. Basslink , the 400 kV high voltage direct current submarine cable connecting Tasmania to the National Electricity Market , terminates in George Town. The municipal area had a population of 6,728 2001 census . Geography and landmarks Mount George Low Head, Tasmania Low Head and Low Head Lighthouse Batman Bridge Joining the George Town Municipality to the West Tamar Tamar River Proposed Developments Bell Bay Pulp Mill Gunns Limited have recently proposed a Bell Bay Pulp Mill pulp mill to be built in the George Town area, the largest i ... more details
The National Electricity Market NEM is the name of the Australia n wholesale electricity market and the associated Wide area synchronous grid synchronous electricity transmission grid. The NEM began operation on 13 December 1998, and operations are currently based in five interconnected regions Queensland , New South Wales , Tasmania , Victoria Australia Victoria and South Australia . Tasmania was the last state to join the NEM as the sixth region in May 2005 and became fully operational on 29 April 2006 when the Basslink interconnector was fully activated. The Snowy region was abolished on 1 July 2008 and the components split between New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Capital Territory is included in the NSW region of the NEM. The NEM operates one of the world s longest Electrical grid interconnected power systems between Port Douglas, Queensland and Port Lincoln, South Australia with an end to end distance of more than 4000 kilometres. Over A 11 billion of electricity is traded annually in the NEM to meet the demand of almost eight million end use consumers. ref An Introduction to Australia s National Electricity Market http www.aemo.com.au corporate 0000 0262.pdf ref Operation of the NEM Physical Market Exchange between Electricity generation electricity producers and Electricity retailing electricity consumers is facilitated through a spot market where the output from all generators is aggregated and instantaneously scheduled to meet demand through a centrally coordinated economic dispatch dispatch process . This process is operated by the Australian Energy Market Operator AEMO in accordance with the provisions of Australian National Electricity Law and Australian National Electricity Rules. Scheduled generators submit offers every five minutes of every day. From all offers submitted, AEMO s systems determine the generators required to produce electricity based on the principle of meeting prevailing demand in the most cost efficient way see also Econom ... more details
the 600 km NorNed cable between Norway and the Netherlands, and 290 km Basslink between the Australian mainland and Tasmania ref Basslink website ref Endpoint to endpoint long haul bulk power .... ref http www.rpdc.tas.gov.au projects state signif BasslinkBasslink project ref Modern monopolar ... more details
name hvdcproj01 Basslink Australia LoyYang Coord 38 15 45 S 146 36 29 E type landmark name Basslink ... name Basslink GeorgeTown Static Inverter Plant 298.3 71.8 400 600 2005 Thyr One of the longest ... more details
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