Power Outage News in New Zealand and Australia
We are monitoring small power cuts and nationwide power blackouts in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. We provide you breaking news about power cuts today. Our goal with this news feed is not to notify you about power cuts but to share power cut news near you together with possible tips on how to act during such power blackouts. For prompt power cut notifications to your mobile phone we have a better solution - iSocket power cut alarm for Australia or iSocket power cut alarm for New Zealand.
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Half a million customers without power in Victoria, Australia
People sharing their thoughts on the long lasting power outages. Hundreds of Victorians remain without power after last week's storms. Some are at relief centres and unable to work.
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Pole-top fire causing a massive power cut
More than 4500 homes in Wonthella Australia were without power after a series of weather-induced pole fires triggered blackouts across the city and region. “Pole-top fires can occur during light drizzling rain or misty damp conditions when a combination of recent dust and pollution builds up to create paths or ‘tracks’ on the insulators, enabling electricity to jump across. This tracking electricity can heat elements of the pole infrastructure to a point where they smoulder and burn,” the spokesperson said.
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Power cut in Hawke's Bay
Power Cut affected for a second time in a week in Hawke's Bay. Transpower apologized, saying it had an issue with the local generation.
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Power cuts in the central North Island
Transpower apologised after it cut power in some areas last night to handle all-time high demand for electricity on one of the coldest nights of the year.
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Power cut in Willetton
Power cut to more than 370 homes in Willetton after a fallen tree took down power lines.
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Power сut in Weston Creek
Reported power сut in Weston Creek, Duffy, Wright, and Coombs. A couple of hours later, service was restored.
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Power cut in a large area of Goulburn
#PowerCut in a large area of Goulburn, Australia. Essential Energy crews identified that local fauna had caused the outage, prompting a powerline to fall into the Mulwaree River.
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Power cut causes traffic jams at border in Western Australia
A power cut has left hundreds of travelers have become stuck at the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Power cuts for more than ten thousand homes in southern Sydney
Power cuts for more than ten thousand homes in southern Sydney, due to an external party hit a major underground supply cable while digging.
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Power cuts in Mamaku due to snowfall
Snow flurries fell in Mamaku. Power cuts also affected hundreds of customers. The cause of the outage is unknown.
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Power cut affected nearly 1500 customers in Bangalow
A widespread power cut affected nearly 1500 customers in Bangalow. Repairs to the damaged lines were made, and power was restored a couple of hours later.
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Power cut in Western Australia
Power cut in western Australian cities due to storms and floods. More than 9,000 homes were left without electricity.
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Power cut in more than 200,000 homes in Victoria
Power cut in more than 200,000 homes in Victoria. after wild winds and heavy rains lashed the state. The area had never experienced such a power cut before. A spokesman said that blackout in homes and stores could last up to a week.
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Power cut in Victoria due to floods
The floods caused a power cut in many areas in the Australian state of Victoria.
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Strong winds cause power outages around Illawarra
Endeavour Energy crews are continuing to safely restore power to 2100 homes after Sunday's damaging winds. The winds caused a large power outage around Illawarra's targeting homes and traffic lights.
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Queenslanders affected by power cut
470,000 Queenslanders were affected by a power cut after a power station caught fire on Tuesday afternoon. They are now asked to reduce their energy output to reduce the stress on the system by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
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Gold Coast without power
A power outage hit about 1400 properties in the gold coast. The reasons of the power cut is not yet known but Energex says investigations are underway.
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Palmerston North without electricity
A power cut between Tokomaru and Palmerston North has hit more than 400 homes leaving them without electricity. Currently, PowerCo is investigating on the causes.
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Power cut in Byron Shire
An unplanned power cut has hit Byron Shire due to a fault in the energy network. Customer safety was immediately ensured by isolating the power supply.
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Electricity is back in Whangārei
Good news for Whangārei, a total of 9000 households have received back electricity after experiencing a lack of it on Saturday evening due to a massive power cut. Northpower said the “major fault” happened at the Kensington substation and arose due to an issue with the 33kV busbar.
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A future of power cuts in Victoria, AU is coming
It has been reported by the federal energy market operator that if the Yallourn coal-fired power plant won't be replaced soon, a decade of frequent power cuts will await Victoria, AU. Precautions have to be taken.
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Thousands of people without power in central North Island towns in New Zealand
More than 4000 properties have been left without power due to a power cut caused by a fault on Transpower's network. The Power cuts affected the central North Island towns.
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Western Australia ambitious plan to go off-grid
After a series of power outages caused by storms, bushfires and cyclones, Western Australia has declared its will to implement in large scale also abroad a completely off-grid system of energy distribution.
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Geraldton prepapres for power outages
The coastal town is preparing for a power outage lasting days. Western Power has confirmed that the power outages are more likely to happen but can not confirm on how many days those will last.