Update - Outage Cancellations across Essential Energy

Further to yesterday’s communication, the latest forecasts from the RFS have indicated that today’s bushfire conditions are worse than predicted yesterday. The potential risks to Essential Energy’s network are at the high end of our predictions. We will not know the full impact on our network until at least tomorrow, with conditions expected to peak in the evening.

To ensure the community’s safety and allow us to focus on the recovery effort, Essential Energy is cancelling all ASP planned outages for the remainder of this week, and until Monday 18th November at the least.

There may be further impacts to next week’s outages as we gain more clarity on the extent of the damage to our network over the next few days. 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. We thank you for your patience and understanding, please also continue to make safety your priority during these difficult times.

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