Australian Electricity Infrastructure: Power Lines, Substations, and Major Power Stations

Geoscience Australia Data provides a spatial dataset of electricity infrastructure across Australia. The dataset includes the locations of Power Lines, Substations, and Major Power Stations, with Power Lines represented as line data and the others as point data. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-23.

Use Cases

• Map electricity network connectivity based on power line and substation locations.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of major power generation facilities across Australia.
• Conduct site suitability analysis for new infrastructure projects using the geospatial point data for substations and power stations.
• Model network resilience or vulnerability by overlaying infrastructure data with other geospatial layers.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Geoscience Australia Data, a national geoscience agency.
• Dataset includes three distinct feature types: Power Lines, Substations, and Major Power Stations.
• Spatial data types (point and line) are explicitly defined in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is listed as a future date (2026-06-23).

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 16:41:00.512847

Geography

Australia