Mongolia looks to Qld for power network ideas

Queensland's inland electricity network could soon be replicated in the hills of Mongolia.

A Mongolian Government delegation has been meeting Ergon Energy executives this week to study the company's 64,000 kilometres of power lines in rural Queensland, known as the Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) network.

Ergon's Neil Lowry says the SWER system is the most cost-effective and reliable way to provide electricity to rural residents.

"Mongolia is a pretty much undeveloped country in a lot of areas and they are looking at the best means of getting supply to lots of villages and small settlements of around 700 or 800 people, so SWER is one of the options they're really interested in," he said.

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Sat 28th March 2009 - 12:48pm