At 15:55 (NEM time) we posted about how ‘Rumours of transmission towers on the ground in Victoria (Tue 13th Feb 2024) … but *not* yet confirmed?!’ when I saw this tweet from Powercor from 14:51 highlighting that, at a distribution level, there certainly are lines down:
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