The fallout from a storm that destroyed transmission infrastructure from Menindee to Tibooburra in regional NSW threatens to leave locals without power until November 6.
Residents across far-west NSW will experience power disruptions until early November after a storm that caused ongoing outages.
The affected area spans more than 400 kilometres from Menindee, south of Broken Hill, to Tibooburra near the Queensland border. Each residential electricity account holder who lost power will be paid $200, and small-to-medium businesses will be eligible for $400 grants. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has begun investigating whether Transgrid breached it licensing conditions, including reliability standards."The bottom line here is the gas generator, the redundancy power was not maintained by Transgrid and has been out of action since November last year," Mr Minns said.
"Given that people were aware that there was only one generator that was working in Broken Hill, there should have been more done on that front."The reason for outages could be as simple as it being a cloudy day, limiting household solar input to the network throughout the day and putting pressure on the generator.
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