 The first capital works to be carried out by the SECV was the development of the 50 MW Yallourn Power Station, briquette factory, and open-cut brown coal mine in the Latrobe Valley.The SECV was allocated $2.86 million for the Yallourn works, which had been recommended in 1917.Transmission of electricity to Melbourne began in 1924, a distance of 160 km using a 132kV line.