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

What is Happening?

Essential Energy’s network was significantly damaged during the devastating fires across the south cost of NSW. To ensure the community’s safety and to allow our resources to concentrate on our recovery efforts from the bushfire damage, Essential Energy is further cancelling planned outages for two more weeks (9 February to 23 February 2020) at the following depots:

• Bega
• Bombala
• Cooma
• Jindabyne
• Moruya

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 the 23 February 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.

What do you need to do?

1. Please contact your local Network Assurance Facilitator or Essential Energy contact before doing work on or near our network. Where network supply is not available to conduct testing these premises are to be left disconnected and secured with a danger tag. Contact your local Essential Energy representative to co-ordinate connection when the network supply is restored.
2. Remember our network is in an abnormal state and ensure that you put your safety first. Be on the lookout for temporary generation connections that may be back-energising installations.
3. All ASPs are only allowed to undertake work on or near the network that they are accredited and authorised to perform (eg only overhead authorised ASPs are to perform overhead service works).
4. Please communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation and we thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult time.
5. Review the above etc
6. Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
7. View this communication via Essential Engagement at Essential Engagement/ASP

Further Information

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