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Energy providers fined after cutting power to customers on life support

ELECTRICITY distribution businesses Energex and Evoenergy have both been fined A$40,000 in penalties for cutting electricity to life support customers in Queensland and the ACT with insufficient notice.

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iStock.com/KatarzynaBialasiewicz

  The breaches involved separate incidents where customers who require life support equipment unexpectedly lost electricity supply during planned works and maintenance.    In both cases the customers...

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