Outage Cancellations across Essential Energy

The NSW Government has declared a State of Emergency for NSW the next seven days, the first declared since 2013 and a state-wide total fire-ban is also in effect.

To ensure the community’s safety, Essential Energy is cancelling all planned outages for Tuesday 12 November 2019.

Essential Energy’s network has been significantly impacted over the past five days with more than 70 fires burning across the state and initial indications that more than 400 power poles have been damaged. Thousands of customers in the MidCoast, Port-Macquarie Hastings, Kempsey, Armidale, Nambucca, Bellingen, Clarence valley and Ballina local government areas are without power.

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.

There are likely to be further impacts as we move through this week and 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 these impacts as soon as we possibly can.

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.