What Alcoa left behind.
As globalisation took over Geelong's manufacturing giants could not keep up. The mid-2010s saw major employers Ford, Shell & Alcoa all pull out of the city leaving behind their vast facilities. The biggest being Alcoa's Point Henry Aluminium Smelter and the electrical infrastructure that powered it for so many years. Point Henry Smelter in 2016 [Me] Opened in the early 1960s, Initially Point Henry got its power from the grid as anyone else would but it was evident that something more sufficient was needed. A 220 kV transmission line circling the southern edge of Geelong was built and connected to the Geelong Terminal Station in Norlane to the smelter. The alignment headed south from the terminal station following the since built Geelong Ring Road then cutting through the developing suburbs of Highton, Grovedale and Marshall before heading back north towards the smelter via Moolap. Map of Point Henry to Geelong Terminal Transmission Line Alignment [Base Map: Google, Shapef