It’s Friday morning 14th March 2025 and a quick review at the Energex Outage finder shows that we’re down to ‘only’ ~17,000 customers off supply:
… most of these are down on the Gold Coast, and we see from the map these are inland, where I presume there’s more vegetation and including locations where road access might have been damaged via TC Alfred (not TC Albert, sorry):
I have not looked in northern NSW, but readers should also not forget that there would also be customers still off supply there.
Thanks to the tireless work of Energex we had power restored two days earlier than first predicted. We are so grateful for there massive effort after cyclone Alfred.
You can really see the limitations on fault tracking caused by the lack of smart meters in QLD. The lack of data from smart meters means that Energex is only making guesses on where many of the outages are, and the related impact. Simplistically this can be seen by the many overlapping areas, but also by the fault zones not following street patterns. I looked up where I used to live to look at the outage impact and it was very clear to me that this was the case.