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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2023-06-01 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-05-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007233b.htm person Bates George William AACR2 23 July 1932 13 May 1995 Place of Birth Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Morwell, Victoria, Australia Electrical engineer Mechanical engineer George Bates, DipEE DipME FIEAust, was an electrical and mechanical engineer who rose through the ranks of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), from a cadet engineer in the Latrobe Valley in 1951, to senior positions in engineering, administration and executive management, becoming the most senior executive in the organisation when he retired in 1993. He was responsible for the resettlement of the Yallourn Township; he introduced project management to the SECV; and was the project manager of the first stage of the Loy Yang project. In his latter years, he presided over the major restructuring of the SECV, and its breakup under the Electricity Industry Act 1993, into three discrete units - Generation Victoria (GV), National Electricity (NE), and Electricity Services Victoria (ESV) - and subsequent corporatisation. He took a leading role in the formation of the National Electricity Grid Management Council and following his retirement was appointed chairman of Power Net Victoria and director of Victoria Power Exchange. 1951 1951 Education - Diploma Electrical Engineering (DipEE), Yallourn Technical College 1951 1951 Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1951 1951 Career position - Cadet engineer, State Electricity Commission of Victoria 1955 1955 Career event - Graduate Member (GradIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1955 1955 Education - Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (DipME), Yallourn Technical College 1958 1958 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 13 Sep 1968 13 Sep 1968 Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.] 1969 1969 Award - Electrical Engineering Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia [Jointly with D C Smith, and I P Bates] 1972 1972 Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia c. 1979 1983 Career position - Chairman, Yallourn Resettlement Committee c. 1980 1984 Career position - Project manager, Loy Yang Power Station construction 1982 1982 Career position - Member, Committee of Management, Latrobe Valley Hospital 1993 1993 Life event - Retired 1994 1995 Career event - Chairman, Power Net Victoria 1994 1995 Career event - Director, Victoria Power Exchange State Electricity Commission of Victoria, State of Victoria (1921 - c. 1993)

Chief Executive Officer ? 1993

 Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - 1975)

Awarded the Electrical Engineering Prize 1969, with Mr D C Smith, and I P Bates, for the paper "The influence of automatic regulators on the stability characteristics of the Victorian Inter-Connected Power System", Electrical Engineering Transactions, Sep 1969.

 'Bates, George William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bates, George William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Electrical Engineering Prize - 1969 Award Electrical Engineering Prize - 1969 Award 1971 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 43 1-2 31 Journal Article: Obituary : George Bates [People] Trethowan, Charles Obituary : George Bates [People] 1995 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 67 6 53