ASP Outage Cancellations for Southern & South-Eastern Regions of Essential Energy

As communicated last week, Essential Energy’s network has been significantly impacted by bushfire over the past couple of weeks in Southern and South-Eastern NSW, with further damage being inflicted on Saturday. We have not been able to assess the full extent of the damage due to issues accessing the firegrounds, but the likelihood is many hundreds of poles have been damaged. Thousands of customers on the South Coast are currently without power.

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 ASP planned outages next week (from the 13th to 19th January 2020) in the Southern and South-Eastern areas of NSW. Essential Energy will be contacting the impacted ASPs that have been identified as having an outage being cancelled. Other areas should proceed as planned, however impacts from resources travelling to support the response may affect individual ASP outages.

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.

Essential Energy will reschedule cancelled 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.

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