power outages
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Update on power outages
CitiPower and Powercor crews are working to restore power to about 107,000 customers as a severe storm front pushes through Victoria. A combination of extreme temperatures, strong winds and thousands of lightning strikes are causing damage to poles, wires and other electrical infrastructure. Crews are responding to more than 400 different faults across western and…
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Hospital power down
Castlemaine Hospital was hit by a power outage last Wednesday after which the facility’s backup generators failed. The incident resulted in a blackout of about an hour, with some patients turned away at the door and some staff sent home. Dhelkaya Health CEO Sue Race said a component fault occurred during a scheduled generator test…
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Power outages cause identified
Powercor crews believe they may have found the cause of multiple power outages in Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shire. Yesterday, crews inspected and replaced a variety of items – lighting surge arrestors, fuses, insulators, and high-voltage leads – on seven high-voltage power poles along Martin Street South in Blackwood. After careful examination of these items, crews found an insulator…
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Multiple power outages under investigation
Powercor is using advanced technology to identify the cause of multiple power outages being experienced by some customers in the Macedon Ranges and Hepburn Shire during the past fortnight. Forensic patrols of more than 260km of powerline are well advanced, with crews narrowing down the fault location to a 20km area between Blackwood and Trentham.…
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Prepare for power outages ahead of extreme weather
Householders are being urged to prepare for potential power outages with strong winds expected to hit parts of the state late tonight and into tomorrow. Weather forecasts are predicting wind gusts of more than 100km/h in parts of central and western Victoria, with strong winds also predicted for the metropolitan region.The worst of the weather…
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Town powered down
Malmsbury business operators have suffered through an extraordinarily bad run of power outages this past summer. On seven occasions since November, traders experienced power outages at some of their busiest trading times. The outages have been the result of severe weather combined with the use of bushfire mitigation technology installed at electrical substations in areas…
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NETWORKS DOWN
Residents across the region vented their anger last week with mobile phone services disrupted from Tuesday to Thursday and power outages during Friday’s 40-degree heat leaving many sweltering. Seven days of planned works to the Kyneton area mobile phone network were abandoned on Friday after Telstra reassessed their suitability going into the day’s forecast heat…