ASP Outage Cancellations Across Essential Energy

What is Happening?

Essential Energy’s network has been significantly impacted over the past week in Southern and South-Eastern NSW. We have not been able to assess the full extent of the damage due to access issues, but the likelihood is many hundreds of poles have been damaged. Thousands of customers on the South Coast are without power. There is also concern about the possibility of significant further damage in those areas with this Saturday’s forecast predicting weather conditions as bad as Tuesday’s.

To ensure the community’s safety and the resources available to allow us to concentrate on our recovery efforts from the bushfire damage, Essential Energy is cancelling all ASP planned outages next week (from the 6^th to 12^th January 2020).

There may be further impacts beyond next week as we move through the recovery effort. As you can appreciate it’s not possible for us to forecast what these impacts will be, but we’re committed to ensuring we communicate as soon as we possibly can. Essential Energy has employees embedded in the Emergency Operational Centres, working closely with the Rural Fire Service and other agencies.

Text messages will be sent out to affected ASPs today informing you of the situation.

Essential Energy will reschedule all outages after consultation with our ASP partners once the current emergency situation has been managed.

Please communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation and we thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult time.

Further Information

If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au