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Electricity customers will benefit from lower prices in the future and see positive outcomes for the environment, as Transgrid activates an innovative approach to biodiversity management on its major transmission projects.

The last capacitor bank of the Queensland-NSW Interconnector (QNI) upgrade has now been installed, with the project, started in June 2020, almost 90 per cent complete.

Transgrid has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Charles Sturt University to bring opportunities for students and research as well as helping to create jobs and a substantial economic boost for the Riverina.

The public is now able to access details of Transgrid’s annual safety performance and bushfire preparedness reporting on the organisation’s website. The reports provide general information about the performance of Transgrid’s Electricity Network Safety Management System (ENSMS).

Mental health is an important part of our safety culture at Transgrid and we’re delighted to have won the Allan Fels Mental Health Award at the 2021 Australian HR Institute Awards.

Civil works have been completed at the Transgrid Stockdill substation in the ACT for the Victoria-NSW Interconnector (VNI) upgrade. The works began in February and have involved 100 people, most of them from the ACT region.