Brief unplanned power outage in central-western Queensland, on Wednesday 5th November 2025

Posted by Paul McArdleWednesday 5th November 2025  1:36 PM   Topic: 2025-11-05

A short note to echo the tweet* from Powerlink here this afternoon (Wednesday 5th November 2025):

* how many industry organisations still use Twitter?

 

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Clicking through on the link there opens the ‘Outages’ page of the Powerlink website, which currently looks like this:

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PS1 power has been restored

Only minutes after hitting ‘publish’ on the above and Powerlink updates as follows:

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Worth copying in the following, so future searches do their thing:

‘Power supply has been restored to all impacted customers in the Longreach, Blackall, Barcaldine and Clermont areas.

The outage was caused by a piece of failed equipment at our Lilyvale Substation, near Emerald. Emergency repairs are underway but all customers are now back online. ’

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Paul McArdle
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients. Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.

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