Whole-home Electrification in Lilydale

Lilydale is genuinely open at about 594 people per square kilometre, where many properties have no mains gas at all. Electrification here is about efficiency and resilience rather than fuel switching. Sitting at about 115 metres, Lilydale has homes where the lower level is the coldest part and drives the heating design.

Lilydale is about 34 kilometres from the CBD, where newer homes are often partly electric already and three-phase supply makes the rest simple. Being part of Yarra Ranges, Lilydale follows the standard position: no planning permit for the usual steps, with heritage overlays the exception for anything visible from the street.

Chirnside Park, Coldstream and Lilydale are close enough together that we treat them as one run rather than three separate jobs. Lilydale is a suburb of about 29.2 square kilometres in Yarra Ranges, postcode 3140, with 17348 residents recorded in the 2021 census.

A note on how Lilydale developed: Lilydale has segregated bicycle facilities including the start of the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail which follows the course of the Lilydale-Warburton railway line which was built in 1901 but closed in 1964. Build era predicts the board, the mains and the insulation, and all three shape the order the work should be done in. We are in and out of Lilydale and its neighbours constantly. That run includes Chirnside Park, Coldstream, Gruyere and Montrose.

We are based in Boronia, about 12.9 kilometres north-east of Lilydale. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it. Lilydale has Lilydale railway station, and a station usually means older commercial frontage nearby and a mix of housing eras spreading out from it.

And on the history that shaped the streets: It was rebuilt in November 2021 as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project, with the railway line being raised above Maroondah Highway.