Mr. Simpson asks the Minister for Energy about power outages that occurred on March 26, 2007, specifically noting no outages in Darling Downs but detailing three outages in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, including locations, number of customers affected, duration, and cause.

AnsweredQoN 2268Legislative Assembly
Asked
9 May 2007
Portfolio
Energy

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No outages affected the Darling Downs locality on 26 March 2007. However, on that day there were three outages in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, as follows: 1. A falling tree brought down power poles, causing an outage which affected about 70 customers in Jarrahdale for approximately 8 hours. 2. A pole top fire cut supplies to 140 customers in Serpentine, Keysbrook and North Dandalup for 120 minutes. 3. A damaged insulator caused an outage which affected 927 customers in Byford, Mundijong, Oakford, Cardup, Oldbury, Mardella and Wellard for 60 minutes.
However, on that day there were three outages in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, as follows: 1. A falling tree brought down power poles, causing an outage which affected about 70 customers in Jarrahdale for approximately 8 hours. 2. A pole top fire cut supplies to 140 customers in Serpentine, Keysbrook and North Dandalup for 120 minutes. 3. A damaged insulator caused an outage which affected 927 customers in Byford, Mundijong, Oakford, Cardup, Oldbury, Mardella and Wellard for 60 minutes.

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Answered
12 June 2007
Responded by
Minister for Energy
Response time
34 days
Western Power has provided the Minister for Energy with the following response.
No outages affected the Darling Downs locality on 26 March 2007.
However, on that day there were three outages in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, as follows:
1.
A falling tree brought down power poles, causing an outage which affected about 70 customers in Jarrahdale for approximately 8 hours.
2.
A pole top fire cut supplies to 140 customers in Serpentine, Keysbrook and North Dandalup for 120 minutes.
3.
A damaged insulator caused an outage which affected 927 customers in Byford, Mundijong, Oakford, Cardup, Oldbury, Mardella and Wellard for 60 minutes.

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