Broken Hill’s backup generator back online Tuesday evening 22nd October 2024
It’s Wednesday morning and the backup generator in Broken Hill (GB01) has run successfully through the night after restarting Tuesday afternoon 22nd October 2024.
Read More2024-10-16 towers down Western NSW
Overnight on Wednesday 16th October 2024 into Thursday morning, severe storms blew over transmission towers (on the ‘X2 line’) feeding power into western NSW.
This disrupted power supplies to (and local generation in) areas like Broken Hill for a number of weeks.
In this category we collate articles about this outage.
Back-up generator in Broken Hill tripped offline Monday 21st Oct, still offline Tuesday morning 22nd Oct 2024
At 16:41 (NEM time) on Monday 21st October the back-up generator in Broken Hill tripped – and is still offline on Tuesday morning 22nd October 2024.
Update from the NSW government (on Sat 19th Oct 2024), on power supply restoration in in western NSW
Via an update on LinkedIn from NSW Energy Minister, we’ve become aware of this update on the NSW Government website ‘Update on NSW Government response to power outage in Far West NSW’.
Living on an island … in Broken Hill
A quick review of electricity supply sources (that are visible to us) around the Broken Hill area.
Seven transmission towers collapse near Broken Hill overnight
ABC Broken Hill has reported that seven transmission towers collapsed south of the town overnight due to strong winds and hail.