buying the substation is easy, getting an 11kv supply to run it is the hard part.
when they put these into commision energex has to turn off the 11kv supply which usually runs several of these at once so there are a lot of houses with out power when this happens.

the cement pad that the substation is bolted to just sits on the culvert (the cube shaped cement thing in the photo) the culvert is hollow with a big hole in the top of it. this is supposed to catch the oil if the substation develops a leak.

when they had the floods in Townsville a year or two ago one of these substation had been sat on the cement cube but hadn't been wired up, the force of the water was so strong the substaton was washed away.