Following the note about the earlier tweet from the Department of Energy Victoria, this notice was sent at 20:22 NEM time:
Of the ~470,000 customers still off supply:
1) I would imagine that many (if not most) would be offline because of more localised distribution network outages … albeit across a very wide area!
2) But it’s possible some are still off as a result of the broader load tripping event earlier in the day (though it had looked like most of this had returned earlier).
Closely related to the above, but issued a minute earlier, the Energy Minister (Lily D’Ambrosio) provided the update copied in here:
Particularly useful was the reference to the Outage Maps, which I have taken snapshots of for future reference (3 of 4 worked) …
Outages in the Ausnet distribution area within VIC
From this Ausnet page unfortunately I experienced an error (perhaps due to heavy loading?):
Outages in the Powercor and Citipower distribution areas within VIC
From this Powercor/Citipower page I have captured this map:
Outages in the United Energy distribution area within VIC
From this United Energy page I have captured this map:
Outages in the Jemena distribution area within VIC
From this Jemena page I have captured this map:
The AusNet outage page has been really struggling to load since yesterday afternoon and still this morning. Pretty poor that they aren’t set up to handle spikes in web traffic.
More alarming is the huge volume of reported household phone/internet outages, coupled with loss of 4G internet at the same time, only hours after the event.
This issue alone needs to be looked at, NBN should be forced to comply with minimum battery/EDG supply performance guidelines. This would allow the public to check in on relatives before their land line is lost (like what happened to my 89 year old independent living mother last night.