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Sequence of events in Tasmania on Friday 14th October 2022 (initial look)

Sun 16^th October 2022 7:37 PM | Paul McArdle

On Friday 14th October we saw a significant system event in Tasmania - with storms downing power links, leading to large (530MW) loss of load and trip of Basslink. In this article we take...

NQ transmission grid escapes unscathed, but demand is very low

Thu 3^th February 2011 7:08 AM | Paul McArdle

A quick look at how North Queensland looks, the morning after TC Yasi

North Queensland Powers down with TC Yasi underway

Wed 2^th February 2011 10:51 PM | Paul McArdle

As the Courier Mail tweets that 89,000 people in Townsville and Cairns are without power as TC Yasi approaches, I thought the following chart (taken from our ez2view application) might explain a bit of...