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WA review into Christmas blackouts due mid-March

THE Western Australian government has this week launched an independent review into Christmas 2021 power outages across the south west of the state that left over 30,000 homes without power in a 40C heatwave between December 24 and December 28.

File photo: transmission lines in an Australian setting

File photo: transmission lines in an Australian setting

  Australian Energy Market Commission's Michelle Shepherd is to manage the review; Shepherd's scope of inquiry will address incident cause, Western Power's planning procedures around the event, network...

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