Grant Bailey

Personnel Profile

Grant has over 15 years of experience in the design of 132kV, 66kV, 33kV, and 11kV networks consisting of both overhead and underground construction. He was also instrumental in the development of Network Standards for Line Design for Ausgrid. As part of this role, he was tasked with training and support of new line designers throughout Ausgrid.

Grant was on the committee for the original development of AS/NZS 7000 and HB331, and continues to take part in further development.

Grant is also intimately familiar with line design software such as TL Pro, Neara, Poles & Wires, and PLS CADD. He is also experienced in conducting ratings studies on Ausgrid’s overhead power lines.

Grant has been responsible for the investigation and improvement of standard construction assemblies used on overhead power lines for Ausgrid.

Grant was the company lead on LiDAR processing, geospatial data implementation, and data management for use in design and vegetation management. Within this capacity, he also developed Ausgrid’s policies on bushfire risk mitigation on long spans.

A career highlight was being the project lead on a custom system to measure the line blowout on a range of spans with different vegetation shielding to prove that vegetation surrounding powerlines reduces their movement, during high winds, in an approximate linear relationship. This work now forms recommendations within HB 331.

Grant has also developed an overhead line designer training suite that can be adapted to a range of different experience levels and software. He has now delivered this to more than 60 designers in CitiPower & Powercor with others lining up behind them.