Mr Hort inquires about unplanned power outages in Kalamunda and Mundaring during the 2024-25 financial year. Western Power provides data on outage frequency, duration, customer impact, and confirms no planned load-shedding occurred.

AnsweredQoN 1015Legislative Assembly
Asked
12 November 2025
Portfolio
Energy and Decarbonisation

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(1) How many unplanned power outages have been recorded by Western Power in Kalamunda and Mundaring in the 2024-25 financial year? (2) For each suburb listed in (1), what was the: (a) average duration of each outage; (b) total cumulative outage time per year; and (c) average number of customers affected per outage? (3) Have Kalamunda and Mundaring been subject to any planned
load-shedding, power-rationing, or network-management practices by Western
Power in the
2024-25 financial year?

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Answered
16 December 2025
Responded by
Minister for Energy and Decarbonisation
Response time
8 days
(1) 70.
(2) The information requested for 2024-25 is provided in the table below.
Average Duration per Unplanned Outage
Total Cumulative Unplanned Outage Time
Average Customers Affected per Unplanned Outage
Kalamunda
1 hour and 48 minutes
4 hours and 50 minutes
261
Mundaring
9 hours and 12 minutes
25 hours and 26 minutes
132
(3) No.

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