I live in Melbourne (on Jemena’s distribution network) and this isn’t my experience.
Our power is very reliable and rarely goes out. Every few years a car hits a pole or something and we get a brief period of quiet time
Our power is very reliable and rarely goes out. Every few years a car hits a pole or something and we get a brief period of quiet time
I actually had some electronics fail quite recently after a number of minor outages and speaking with insurance they were saying it's very common in certain areas where the infrastructure is aging or has recently been struck by lightening.
I have noticed the operating voltage in the inner north seems to vary between as low as 217V to 246V, but it's quite frequent you notice the lights dimming in houses round here. I don't think there were any last summer (if you could call it a summer) but usually I'd experience 2-5 (ish) complete outages on hot days, when I spoke to someone in know they said this is normal as they load shed you can experience short outages.
Outages are almost always due to faults in the local distribution network.
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