National Electricity Infrastructure

<div>The National Electricity Infrastructure database presents the spatial locations of Major Power Stations, Electricity Transmission Substations and Electricity Transmission Lines within Australia; in point format for known major power stations and transmission substations, and line format for lines.</div>

Identification info

Date (Creation): 2024-12-03T16:00:00

Date (Publication): 2024-11-28T04:44:01

Date (Revision): 2025-12-16

Citation identifier: Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/150022

Citation identifier: Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/150022

Cited responsible party

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Publisher	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Author	Skeers, N.	Internal Contact
Author	Butcher, G.	Internal Contact
Author	Ness, S.	Internal Contact
Author	Collier, P.	Place and Communities Internal Contact

Purpose: The purpose of this dataset is to spatially represent the electricity network to support a range of government programs in resources, energy, planning, investment and emergency management.

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Resource provider	Place and Communities Division	External Contact
Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Point of contact	Butcher, G.	Internal Contact

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Time period: 2011-01-01

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Resource format

Title: Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol: FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource: Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description: Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

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foundation data
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Electricity

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network

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national dataset

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multiscale

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

Urban informatics

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Published_External

Resource constraints

Title: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title: CC-BY

Edition: 4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2025

Resource constraints

Title: Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00

Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification: Unclassified

Classification system: Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type: Operated on by

Title: National Electricity Infrastructure MapServer

Citation identifier: 150072

Citation identifier: 2611a1fb-751c-4722-909d-9b4fffbee051

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/150072

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Associated resource

Association Type: Operated on by

Title: National Electricity Infrastructure WFS

Citation identifier: 150070

Citation identifier: 638dfd22-12ec-4884-a7e7-36eb84e06bdd

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/150070

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type: Operated on by

Title: National Electricity Infrastructure WMS

Citation identifier: 150071

Citation identifier: 85d4d156-4346-4f94-baaf-bdd90867122f

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/150071

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Distributor	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice facsimile

OnLine resource: Download file Geodatabase (gdb) [2.6 MB]

Download file Geodatabase (gdb) [2.6 MB]

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zip, gdb

File decompression technique

unzip

OnLine resource: Download JSON files (json) [5.1 MB]

Download JSON files (json) [5.1 MB]

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zip, json

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unzip

OnLine resource: Download the metadata statement (pdf) [603.4 KB]

Download the metadata statement (pdf) [603.4 KB]

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pdf

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nil

OnLine resource: Download spreadsheet (xlsx) [714.3 KB]

Download spreadsheet (xlsx) [714.3 KB]

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xlsx

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nil

OnLine resource: Download Google Earth file (kmz) (4.9 MB]

Download Google Earth file (kmz) (4.9 MB]

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kmz

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nil

OnLine resource: National Electricity Infrastructure Map Server

National Electricity Infrastructure Map Server

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ESRI Map Service

OnLine resource: National Electricity Infrastructure WFS

National Electricity Infrastructure WFS

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OGC:WFS

OnLine resource: National Electricity Infrastructure WMS

National Electricity Infrastructure WMS

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OGC:WMS

Resource lineage

Statement: <div>Datasets were first individually digitized in 2011 (Version 1) from the library of imagery held within Geoscience Australia. Imagery used ranged from 0.15m to 2.5m resolution. </div><div> </div><div>The individual datasets were revised a further 3 times, Version 2 in March 2017, Version 3 in 2019 using both using Esri World Imagery and the current Version 4 has been updated using Esri World Imagery and multiple sources in 2024. </div><div> </div><div>Version 4 (2024), the 3 separate datasets have been combined into a feature dataset. </div><div><br></div>Version 4.1 (2025) – Minor updates to priority areas.

Reference System Information

Identifier

Code: EPSG:7844

Description: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 7844)

Metadata constraints

Title: Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00

Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification: Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier

urn:uuid/3844c10c-ecfd-44a9-94f5-29222bb6d36d

Title: GeoNetwork UUID

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Contact

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Point of contact	Butcher, G.	Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier: eCatId/150022

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3844c10c-ecfd-44a9-94f5-29222bb6d36d

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/static/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3844c10c-ecfd-44a9-94f5-29222bb6d36d

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3844c10c-ecfd-44a9-94f5-29222bb6d36d

Date info (Creation): 2025-12-16T05:49:20.671Z

Date info (Creation): 2024-11-28T04:14:10

Date info (Revision): 2025-12-16T06:39:18.944Z

Metadata standard

Title: AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

Title: Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition: Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier: http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

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