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‘No fast repair’ to energy outages in Qld, NSW as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred lays naked grid vulnerability

By way of media releases, the wording was about as blunt and descriptive as you are more likely to see.

Cyclone Alfred, defined south-east Queensland poles-and-wires firm Energex, had “hammered” massive elements of the area, left “lots of of powerlines on the deck” and created dangers that had been probably lethal.

There could be no “fast repair” as crews confronted the daunting process of first figuring out the faults alongside nearly each a part of the community after which the painstaking job of fixing them.

“As soon as we perceive what we’re up towards, we are able to begin getting the lights again on,” Energex suggested.

“However as a rule of thumb, the extra widespread and extreme the injury, the extra advanced and time-consuming the restore.”

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With lots of of 1000’s of properties and companies throughout southern Queensland and northern New South Wales with out energy, questions are inevitably turning to the energy of the electrical energy system.

How resilient is the grid in Australia?

And in a world the place storms and different kinds of excessive climate are anticipated to develop into extra widespread, is it resilient sufficient?

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