Corporate Body
State Electricity Commission of Victoria (1921 - c. 1993)
State of Victoria
- From
- 1921
Victoria, Australia - To
- c. 1993
- Functions
- Advisory or regulatory body and Energy
- Reference No
- VA 1002
- Legal Status
- Public Record Office Victoria, Registered Agency
Summary
The State Electricity Commission of Victoria was established in 1921 and was responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Victoria. The Commission ceased operations in the early 1990s.
Related entries
Superior
Published resources
Books
- Edwards, Cecil, Brown power: a jubilee history of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (Melbourne: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1969), 313 pp. Details
- Gill, Herman, Three decades: the story of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria from its inception to December 1948 (Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co., 1949), 192 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Public Record Office of Victoria, '3.13.6 State Electricity Commission of Victoria 1921+' in List of Holdings 1985: Public Record Office (1985). Details
Journal Articles
- Abbott, Malcolm, 'The performance of an electricity utility: the case of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1925-93', Australian economic history review, 46 (1) (2006), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00150.x. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7603189. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-619441. Details
Resource Sections
- 'VA 1002 State Electricity Commission of Victoria (previously known as the Electricity Commissioners) 1919-c1993', in Public Record Office Victoria online catalogue, Public Record Office Victoria, 2002, https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/VA1002. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_s.html. Details
- Herman, H., Brown coal, with special reference to the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia (Melbourne: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1952), 612 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 7 September 2001, Last modified: 22 March 2006
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