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'Footscray City Council Electricity Supply Department' warning sign

Warning sign on an 22kV electricity substation in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. Until the privatisation of the Victorian electricity industry in the mid 1990s a number of local councils operated their own electricity distribution businesses, known as Municipal Electricity Undertakings. They bought electricity in bulk from the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and sold it to consumers in their municipalities..

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Uploaded on August 21, 2011
Taken on August 21, 2011