Accessing your property
With our network spread far and wide, our assets are often located on our customers' properties so from time to time, our teams may need to access your property to assess the condition of our power poles.
Our power poles and wires need to be inspected regularly to make sure they are safe and do not pose a risk to individuals and communities.
With our network spread far and wide, our assets are often located on our customers' properties so from time to time, our teams may need to access your property to assess the condition of our power poles. We realise this may be an inconvenience to land owners but it is a necessity to keep yourself, your family, your property and your community safe.
To minimise disruption, you can submit a property access form, so we can:
- contact you prior to accessing your property
- take into account property entry considerations prior to accessing your land
- please note that you don't have to provide this information. If you do, we'll only use it to organise access to the property and we will not give it to any third parties without your consent.
Western Power has statutory land entry powers prescribed under the Energy Operators (Powers) Act 1979 (WA). However, we will always adhere to any property entry requirements, where practicable.
If you have any queries, please contact us on 13 10 87.
Helicopter line maintenance
We also carry out line maintenance work throughout the year. This important work involves using a helicopter to conduct routine maintenance of high voltage transmission lines.
Farmers should consider moving livestock from paddocks with powerlines as the helicopter has to hover low and may need to land for closer inspections and refuelling.
Keep informed of upcoming aerial works in your area by submitting you details below.
Accessing your property FAQs
Occasionally we need to perform switching tasks on the equipment located in your premises to ensure it’s working safely. Other times we need to check that the site condition meets our standards.
These visits are normally short (5-10 minutes) and will not affect the electricity supply to your premises.
When you think of Western Power’s network, your first thoughts probably go to the poles and wires in the street, then other electrical assets such as the substations and transformers that you might drive past when you’re out and about.
However there are other parts of the network that aren’t so visible, and that includes electrical assets which are located within private premises – often commercial buildings.
From time to time, we need to perform emergency or operational and inspection work on those electrical assets, to ensure they are running safely and are providing a reliable electricity supply to our customers throughout our network.
When we have works planned we will give you prior notice and information about those works.
You’ll receive a letter with the details of the work we’re doing and the planned start and finish time.
However emergencies can and do occur, and when they do our priority is to restore power to our customers.
All our employees and contractors working on our behalf carry personal identification which we encourage you to ask to see.
Western Power employees wear orange hi-vis shirts with our logo and will be in Western Power branded vehicles.
Western Power has statutory rights of entry and access, which are based on sections 43, 46(9) and 48 of the Energy Operators (Powers) Act 1979 and other legislative provisions.
Property access
Provide us with your land access requirements