Seven transmission towers collapse near Broken Hill overnight

Posted by Dan Lee Thursday, October 17 2024 Topic: 2024-10-16, 2024-10-16 towers down Western NSW, 2024-10-17, Spring 2024 in the NEM

This afternoon, the ABC have reported of downed transmission towers near Broken Hill after high-speed winds and hail hit the region overnight. The article states that a total of seven towers collapsed about 56km south of Broken Hill, causing some outages in the town and nearby.


Source: ABC Broken Hill, Bill Ormonde

The ABC reports that the town “is running on backup generators”. A quick look at our station dashboard in ez2view shows that the Broken Hill Gas Turbine has been running since the 01:55 dispatch interval (2:25 am local time) this morning.

Broken Hill GT, which mainly runs on diesel, has been running since the early hours of the morning.

Source: ez2view Station Dashboard widget

 

Here on WattClarity, we’ve been keeping a record of each incident of downed transmission towers – which started with this list that I collated in late 2022. By my count, this is the seventh case of transmission towers collapsing in the NEM since January 2020.

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Dan Lee first started at Global-Roam in June 2013. He has departed (and returned) for a couple of stints overseas in that time, but rejoined our team permanently in late 2019. More recently, Dan's focus has been on growing his understanding of the market and developing his analytical capabilities. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Sustainable Energy program at the University of Queensland.

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