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❓ Mr. Love questions the Minister for Energy and Decarbonisation regarding the frequency of meetings with Western Power about regional power outages and requests data on outages and affected households across various regions. The Minister's response indicates regular meetings occur but specific data on houses affected is not collected.

AnsweredQoN 1000Legislative Assembly

Asked

11 November 2025

Member

Mr Shane Love

Portfolio

Energy and Decarbonisation

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(1) Has the Minister met with Western Power regarding regional power outages in: (a) Kalgoorlie-Boulder: (i) how often in the last year; (b) Wheatbelt: (i) how often in the last year; (c) Kimberley: (i) how often in the last year; (d) Pilbara: (i) how often in the last year; (e) Gascoyne: (i) how often in the last year; (f) Great Southern: (i) how often in the last year; and (g) South-West: (i) how often in the last year? (2) List the number of power outages, and number of houses affected by the power outages, in the last three years which have occurred in: (a) Kalgoorlie-Boulder; (b) Wheatbelt; (c) Kimberley; (d) Pilbara; (e) Gascoyne; (f) Great Southern; and (g) South-West?

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Answered

16 December 2025

Responded by

Minister for Energy and Decarbonisation

Response time

9 days

(1) The Minister meets regularly with Government Trading Enterprises in the energy portfolio to discuss a variety of matters, including regional reliability.
(2) The information requested is not captured in data collection. Outage data records customers affected, not houses affected.

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