Up to 200,000 Victorian households have been hit with rolling power outages, with the state's energy minister declaring the energy grid is not fit for modern living.
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| Victoria's Energy Minister Lily D'ambrosio says the situation changed rapidly over the course of Friday as Victorians swelter in unrelenting heatwave conditions. |
Major outages at coal plants combined with wind farms operating well below capacity saw the energy market operator pull the plug on more than 60,000 customers.
Power distribution companies reported outages to more than double that number as the heat rose above 40 degrees early in the afternoon.
Read the story from The Age by Cole Latimer, Simone Fox Koob, Rachel Dexter and Liam Mannix - “‘Not up to it': Energy minister blasts power grid after blackouts to 200,000 Victorian households.”
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